๐ Happy Easter from the Wensleydale Longwool Sheep Breeders’ Association! ๐ 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 […]
Wensleydale Longwool Sheep Classes 2025 The 2025 show season is fast approaching and there are 10 different shows that host dedicated Wensleydale breed classes! There are also plenty of ‘any other’ classes from rare breed to longwool at most agricultural shows that are an excellent opportunity to take your Wensleydales out for the day and
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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 ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ธ ๐๐น๐น๐ถ๐ผ๐๐ ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ช๐ญ๐ญ๐ช๐ข๐ฎ ๐๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ด
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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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โจ๐ Merry Christmas and a happy new year! ๐โจ The WLSBA would like to wish all of our members and Wensleydale sheep fans a very merry Christmas and prosperous new year! ๐ฅ 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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โฐ DON’T FORGET TO ADD YOUR WENSLEYDALE RAMS TO THE BREEDING RAM LIST โฐ 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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