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Wensleydale Annual Breed Sales 2025

๐Ÿ—“๏ธ Wensleydale Annual Sale Dates 2025 ๐Ÿ—“๏ธ Dates for your diaries! Our annual WLSBA breed sale dates for this year will be as follows: ๐Ÿ“Œ Skipton – 30th August 2025 ๐Ÿ“Œ Melton Mowbray – 12th & 13th September 2025 We look forward to a good number of stock forward when entries open later in the […]

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๐Ÿ˜Ž๐Ÿ’ฆ Sun shining? Time to wash show sheep! ๐Ÿ’ฆ๐Ÿ˜Ž

With show season fast approaching and the sun blazing, some flocks will be starting to prepare their Wensleydales for the upcoming show season!Are you a new Wensleydale breeder, or have you kept Wensleydales for a few years and would like to take part in showing but don’t know where to start? Then take a look

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Happy Easter!

๐Ÿ’ Happy Easter from the Wensleydale Longwool Sheep Breeders’ Association! ๐Ÿ’ Hopefully the weather has been kind and you’re all enjoying a laid back weekend with plenty of chocolate and a lovely bit of British lamb or hoggett in the oven! We’ve been lucky enough to have a bit of Wensleydale lamb spam sent in

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Wensleydale Sheep 2025 AGM

It was wonderful to see so many at the AGM yesterday at Tennants at Leyburn and on Zoom! It’s a lovely way for everyone to get together and catch up for lunch as well as celebrate the showing successes for the year. A huge congratulations to our 2024 trophy winners! ๐— ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ธ ๐—˜๐—น๐—น๐—ถ๐—ผ๐˜๐˜ ๐˜›๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ž๐˜ช๐˜ญ๐˜ญ๐˜ช๐˜ข๐˜ฎ ๐˜™๐˜ฉ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฅ๐˜ฆ๐˜ด

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AGM Reminder

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

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Wensleydale Exhibition at Tennants Garden Rooms – A Roaring Success!

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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Exhibition Opening Talk by Dr Graham Steventon

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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Changes to Tag Ordering

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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