Commercial Sheep
We began importing Cheviot Mule ewes in 2014, these were the first to be brought into N. Ireland. We wanted to try and find a maternal based sheep breed, capable of breeding us more than just a fat lamb, we wanted to breed a ewe lamb, one that we would be proud to produce and put our name on.
We now have around 600 Cheviot Mules ewes on the farm, some home bred and the rest imported from Scotland. These are mainly private purchases from a few farms where we select ewes from each year as we know what they are doing for us.
Finding the Suffolk Tup is, or at least was, the hard bit - we now breed our own. The need to breed our own was driven by the fact that we found it so hard to find tups to please us. Tight skins, good colours, no rough bone and silky hair with a bright eye, were all desirable traits we needed, to breed the type of gimmer that we were after.
We find the Cheviot Mule ewe to be extremely capable, very milky, great mothers, and any amount of lambs.
Our ewe lambs are all retained and sold as gimmers at our annual on-farm sale we started in 2019. This years Sale takes place on Friday evening the 1st August 7pm- 2025.
All Gimmers sold are ENZO and TOXO vaccinated so they can go straight to work. Grass fed, no cincentrate is fed to the commercial gimmers.
Don’t Miss our 2025 on Farm Sheep Sale
This years sale is scheduled for Friday the 1st of August at 7pm.
We have a cracking run of lambs on the ground this years for next years sale, id say as good as ever, built primarily on sheep bred from Jalex sourced tups and ewes.
This will be your sale for quality replacements or flock buliders in 2025.
All Enquiries:
James Alexander 07816775501
On Farm Sheep Sale, Click for more details.
The 1st pen of Cheviot Mules we purchased in 2014.
The type of ewe lamb we are aiming for.
A few 2019 sale gimmers, some of which we had shown through the summer.
We buy a lot of our replacment Cheviot Mules from the same farm each year to try and keep our lambs consistent, and we know what those sheep go on and do for us.
More of our purchased Cheviot Mule ewes
Cheviot Mule and her 2 lambs doing what they do best- working.
Cheviot Mule ewes
Cheviot Mule ewe doing exactly what we want her to do.
2019 Sale gimmers
The Goal
Few home bred Cheviot Mules that we sold in the 2019 sale.
Ideal
2019 sale gimmers
2019 sale gimmers
2019 sale gimmers
2019 Cheviot Mule sale gimmers
Our type of Cheviot Mule and her lamb, great colours and character.
2019 sale gimmers
Ideal ewe lamb, bred by our Cheviot Mule ewes and a Suffolk tup, just the type we are after.
Cheviot Mule ewes rearing Suffolk lambs.
Gimmer at our sale last year, bouncing fiull of spirit and character.
Antrim Show 2019 with our 1sdt, 2nd and 3rd place Suff x sheep.
2019 Sale Gimmers.
Antrim Show 2019, our ewe lamb entries.
2017 Sale gimmers.
Sale Gimmers
Sale gimmers
The type of gimmer we want to breed.
2019 sale gimmers
2018 Sale Gimmers
Some freshly weaned Ewe lambs
3 ewe lambs, Antrim show 2018
2019 Sale Cheviot Mules
Ewe lambs at Antrim Show 2019
2019 wether lambs
2019 Wether lambs
2019 stock gimmers
Work pens
Lambing shed before the madness starts
Stock ewes ready for the trailer
