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WILTSHIRE HORN SHEEP FOR SALE

Wiltshire Horn  are an attractive, hardy, self-sufficient breed. Being prolific they consistently produce twins and sometimes triplets. The carcass is large with good confirmation and flavoursome meat, Wiltshire horn sheep for sale

The Wiltshire Horn is unusual in that they’ve a natural ability to shed their winter fleece in the spring. This characteristic makes the breed very low on husbandry requirements. Not only do they not have to be manually sheared, they aren’t susceptible to fly strike like most other breeds. With the onset of man made fibres demand for wool as dropped dramatically, the cost of shearing a sheep is now more expensive than the value of the fleece

All these credentials give us a breed highly suited to modern commercial requirements. The breed is also well suited to smallholders and people new to keeping sheep.

The Wiltshire Horn Sheep Society exists to promote, preserve and improve the Wiltshire Horn breed, to define the breed standard and record pedigrees. It came into being on the 13th January 1923, when 40 farmers and breeders met in the Grand Hotel, Northampton to put the breed onto “sound pedigree lines”. The meeting concluded with the establishment of the “Wiltshire or Western Horn Sheep Breeders Association”, together with the flock book, a constitution and a managing council. 22 attendees joined on the spot and paid their first annual subscription: 1 guinea !