The Texel as a terminal sire breed is sweeping the country.  Texel cross lambs are early finishing so producers can take advantage of premium markets.  They have excellent feed conversion rates and high dressing out percentages of the carcasses.  Texel carcasses are leaner meeting modern consumer demands.  Across Canada, Texels and Texel cross lambs are consistently winning market lamb and carcass competitions, also commanding top dollar on the rail.  Producers will confirm that Texel cross lambs are born with ease, are very lively, and have tremendous vigour, developing quickly to reach market at a young age.

In November 2000, John and Eadie implanted ewes with Texel embryos in an effort to provide health matched terminal sires for complete commercial breeding stock packages. To add to this flock, they also purchased 127 Texel embryos from New Zealand. These embryos were implanted in September 2001 and the resulting lambs were born in February, 2002. Since then they have used selected semen from performance recorded flocks from Holland and Great Britain. The flocks current size is 200 ewes, all performance recorded, raising their lambs on pasture only.

What's New? - In the fall of 2010, we performed Artificial Insemination on the Texel flock with genetics from New Zealand.  We have selected performance recorded sires from NZ flocks.

All weights and scanning results are recorded on the Ontario Sheep Flock Improvement Program. The Ultrasound Backfat scanning is done at the third lumbar vertebrae (base of the last rib). Our entire flock is vet-certified free of Maedi Visna, Johnes Disease, Caseous Lymphadenitis, Infectious Foot Rot and Enzootic Abortion, Q-fever and Scrapie.

Prices for Yearling Texel Rams

To commercial producers as unregistered

Note: Commercial producers will still receive the registration paper for proof of a purebred animal (for purposes of predation compensation) but the back of the paper will be checked "sold as unregistered"

$825

To purebred breeders requiring transfer of registration papers

$1200