Just a week to go until the Wensleydale sheep Annual General Meeting! The meeting will be held on Saturday 12th April 2025 at Tennants Garden Rooms in Leyburn, as well as in a hybrid format via Zoom, so that those who cannot make it along in person can still join. The meeting starts at 2pm […]
On the 21st January 2025, the Wensleydale Sheep: A Handcrafted History exhibition had it’s opening day at Tennants Garden Rooms in Leyburn, where it has been enjoyed by visitors from far and wide until the 17th February. In its time at Tennants, the exhibition has garnered a lot of positive feedback and publicity for the
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Wensleydale Sheep: A Handcrafted History exhibition opening talk by Dr Graham SteventonTennants Garden Rooms, Leyburn – 21st January, 2pmBook your FREE ticket Our very own Dr Graham Steventon who keeps the Princethorpe flock will be giving a talk on behalf of the Wensleydale Longwool Sheep Breeders’ Association to open the exhibition at Tennants Garden Rooms
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With the cost of ear tags continuing to rise, at the October 2024 council meeting the WLSBA council discussed ways to reduce Association costs without raising registration or membership costs. Subsequently, it was decided that starting with lambs born in 2025, the WLSBA will only offer next sequential tags for lamb registrations, instead of replicas
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✨🎄 Merry Christmas and a happy new year! 🎄✨ The WLSBA would like to wish all of our members and Wensleydale sheep fans a very merry Christmas and prosperous new year! 🥂 Hopefully you have all received your winter newsletter! Fingers crossed for kind weather and a good lambing time over the coming months, as
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With December disappearing fast, hopefully everyone is ready for Christmas and your Wensleydales are happy and healthy in advance of lambing! On Tuesday 17th December, the newsletter was sent out to all members, with physical copies posted out to those who don’t have email addresses on the 19th (hopefully you will all receive them in
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⏰ DON’T FORGET TO ADD YOUR WENSLEYDALE RAMS TO THE BREEDING RAM LIST ⏰ A quick reminder to all WLSBA members and new Wensleydale owners that any rams which have not been previously entered onto the breeding ram list MUST be registered by the 30th of November 2024 in order to register their offspring in
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On a rather bright and mild afternoon on the 5th October 2024, Chilton Grounds Farm in Buckinghamshire very kindly hosted a workshop day for members to enjoy a social catch-up, learn about current animal health and welfare practices, meet some new faces and brush up on their knowledge of the breed. Duncan Parker and Diana
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On the 30th of October 2024, after 8 years as our brilliant and dedicated secretary, Anna Pennell resigned from the role. We wish her the very best of luck with her new challenges as well as with her growing/successful farm business and are delighted that she has agreed to remain on the WLSBA council. We
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Harrison Spinks Farm hosted the recent Yorkshire Agricultural Society Women in Farming Autumn Gathering event at Hornington Manor, it was a great moment to showcase their work on the farm with the Wensleydale Longwool to the guests as well as introduce them to a couple of the rams. Looks a great day for everyone. The
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