Buying rare breed sheep for breeding, conservation grazing or to eat from Fowlescombe Farm

Major Flock Dispersal - Devon Manx and Hebridean sheep

Major Flock Dispersal - Devon
Manx and Hebridean sheep

A large part of the Fowlescombe flockhas been dispersed owing to serious illness in the family. We still have ~150 animals (from over 500 head at our peak)

A large part of the Fowlescombe flockhas been dispersed owing to serious illness in the family. We still have ~150 animals (from over 500 head at our peak)

Rare Breed Sheep livestock for (pedigree) breeding

Delivery

Rare Breed Sheep for maintaining your paddock / churchyard / wildlife habitat

How to buy rare breed lamb or hogget 'for the pot'

Prices by Type

Normal sheep from - to

Prize / top class animals

Delivery

Rare Breed Sheep for maintaining your paddock / churchyard / wildlife habitat

How to buy rare breed lamb or hogget 'for the pot'

Manx Loaghtan and Hebridean Flock
We have a collection of Manx Loagthan sheep of all types, 2 horn and a few 4 horn. We also have a similar number of Hebrideans - all two horned. From time to time we have ewes, ewes with lambs at foot, shearling ewes and occasioanlly rams for breeding or for conservation grazing.
Contact Barbara on 01548 821000 or e-mail barbara@fowlescombe.co.uk.

We are both members of the Rare Breeds Survival Trust, and Richard has served on the Council. To be successful the RBST needs other people to help keep the breeds going. If no-one eats them, they will go extinct. Use them or lose them!! There are two easy ways:

Buy some sheep to help maintain a conservation area, your paddock or some wildlife habitat
And they are delightful, and and at the end of the year you can always put a few boys in the pot

Create you own pedigree breeding flock to ensure these delightful animals do not become extinct

We run them as a commercial flock, making money from the (organic) wool, fleeces, skins and as a carcass. We have made scarves, rugs, stoles etc which adds even more value. Winning at the bigger shows can bring in extra money and is a lot of fun. And they are delightful animals which taste great. Click here for more photos of the sheep.

Prices by Type	Normal sheep from - to		Prize / top class animals
Pedigree Rams	£90 -	£150	By animal from £150
Pedigree shearling ewes (1+ yr old)	£70 -	£90	By animal from £90
Pedigree ewe lambs (from weaning to 1 yr )	£45 -	£75	By animal from £75
Pedigree ewes	£70 -	£95	By animal from £95
(For pedigree ewes in lamb - add £20 - checked by scanning)
(For pedigree ewes with lambs at foot - add £25 per lamb under 3 months old)
Store lambs from pedigree parents - depending on the age	£45 -	£70	Not applicable

We can deliver up to 150 miles away, charges based on distance and number - we have a small trailer to take 7 or 8 sheep, and a larger one that will take around 24. Prices for delivery typically are £10 plus £2.20 per mile - so if you live 80 miles away this would be £186 including VAT. Prices include the cost of pedigree registration and / or transfer to the buyer - buyers who want to do pedigree breeding would need to be a member of the RBST for the Manx, or the Hebridean Sheep Society for the Hebs.

Please click here to get some guidance if you have not kept sheep before

We are happy to supply a small group or family unit of sheep to graze your paddock or other grass / scrub-land area. For wildlife management, on say a headland or nature reserve, you may need to build up a larger group. The sheep not only eat grass and flowers, but are also good at managing scrub (but don't put them in your orchard without good tree guards). We have provided sheep for grazing National Trust land, paddocks, churchyards and other areas. Some people have established new breeding flocks, others have kept them as pets and a number of people take a few yearlings in the spring and send them off to slaughter for their own consumption in the autumn. Click here for prices

To buy either our rare breed Manx or Hebridean lamb/ hogget or even mutton click here for details. If someone does not eat them, then the incentive to keep them goes down, and they will become extinct - and they do taste delicious!
What does it taste like? Well the meat is arguably the best lamb or hogget you can buy. It has a distinctive taste, fully flavour, less fat - but what fat it has is delicious - and you would never use mint with it. Try red currant jelly or crab apple jelly. For a roast try a thin covering of honey to bring out even more flavour.

For more details, please click on these links for more details of our flock of Manx Loaghtan, Hebridean sheep or about the farm.

Contact on 01548 821000 for availability and price. Click here for advice, if you are new to sheep

Here is a link to some friends who have bought some sheep from us who specialise in duvets and other things made from natural and sustainable wool www.sealestoke.com and www.devonduvets.com

	Major Flock Dispersal - Devon Manx and Hebridean sheep
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Rare Breed Sheep livestock for (pedigree) breeding

We provide pedigree (organic) animals to new or existing rare breed flocks.
We have won the Champion Sheep in our class from 2006 to 2010 at the Devon County Show.
Below you can see some of our early breeding stock

To the left are two of the Manx rams we have used. Sadly Nelson, the 2-horned ram, came to grief fighting but he has given us many fine offspring. In the centre are some weaned lambs who joined the breeding flock the following year. To the right is Brucite, our first Hebridean ram. These are bred and kept on the farm for their natural life, often until they are 16 or more years old. They spend most of their lives in the fields, but during winter if the weather is very bad we give them shelter in a well ventilated renovated stone stable. During winter we supplement their grass diet with hay and some home-produced crimped corn. The sheep do not tend to poach the land the way that cattle do, but they do like shelter from the combination of cold, wet and wind.

Contact by e-mail by clicking or ring on 01548 821000 for availability and price for buying livestock. As a rough guide see the chart below. Actual prices will depend on the actual animals.

Please note - we live in the South of Devon when you want to consider where you buy sheep from. If you live a long way away, then we suggest you contact a local support group of the RBST or the breed society for a local breeder.