[Sunny south devon]

Thankyou all for the help and advice on this ..... Given me food for thought and a few more things to think about before I actually buy them

[SallyintNorth]

The market also likes Lleyn for the length of the carcass and the flavor.

I wish 'the market' did buy on flavour, but in my experience it is of no interest whatsoever!  In fact, the last I heard, the proposed new grading scheme (to replace and improve on the EUROP 1-5 system currently used) has something like 77 different measures, of which only 1 is to do with taste!

[crobertson]

We had 11 texel lambs as our first sheep last year and they have been great ! Very friendly, easy to manage, hardy, do well on anything and the meat has been the best we've tasted - we've even kept 6 ewe lamb to put to the tup as they were too nice for meat.

Hope this helps