The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Livestock => Sheep => Topic started by: islaSkye on February 22, 2019, 07:22:27 pm
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hello!
I am currently working on a charitable education site in the wigan area (near manchester) and looking to start a mixed flock of different breeds (preferably all ewes) to demonstrate to visitors the variety of sheep - and that they not all white fluffs! Im ideally looking at getting 4 - 6 different breeds, preferably lambs so that I can train them on a halter and preferably pure breeds for education- can anyone recommend people to contact as its a bit of a weird request to purchase just one lamb from each seller.
They will not be used for breeding, just education and therapeutic activities so am willing to look at orphaned or runts so long as health is not a long term issue.
thanks
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The RBST Field Officer for the North is Ruth Dalton. She may well be able to help. Link (https://www.rbst.org.uk/faqs/ruth-dalton-field-officer-northern-england-and-scotland) to her info page on the RBST website.
Another contact would be Alice Underwood of Sheepfold at the Wool Clip in Caldbeck, Cumbria. She used to be the secretary for RBST NW; she keeps Manxes and the occasional Boreray herself; she and her pal Sue Parker started Sheepfold to promote British sheep and their wool and work with a network of providers of rare breed fleece across the north of England.
Alice has just published a book (https://www.sheepfold.co.uk/sheep-of-many-colours/), Sheep of Many Colours, featuring information about, pictures of, and knitting patterns for, twenty selected British sheep. (Full disclosure, Alice and Sue are pals - but have become so through our shared passion for British sheep and their fleece.)