I had the pleasure of heading to Talgarth last week to photograph the Curran family’s Charollais offering for their major production sale which takes place at Hereford Market on the 19th October. Take a look at the girls below and once the catalogues are out I’ll be adding that in to the post as well. …
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As sale season is well underway in the sheep industry at the moment, I headed off to photograph Badger Face Welsh Mountains, Texels and Blue Texels (and I even managed a Balwen or two) at Builth for the main NSA Ram Sale. Texels saw a top price of 7000gns in the Hexham ring for the …
What a day at Ludlow this month, covering my first official Kerry Hill show and sale. Delighted to witness Jim Rowe and Tom Webb set a new breed record selling their stock ram for 4200gns. Also, the Woodhouse team had a great day topping the shearling ewe section with this little beauty, selling for 1350gns. …
Sale season has well and truly begun and next on the agenda for sheep photography this month was a trip down the road to Worcester for the sale of Blue Texel and Beltex sheep. Leading the way in the Blue Texel ring with a call of 3000gns was the pre sale champion and a shearling …
Here’s a little preview of some of the Charollais and Texel tups that will be on offer both from home and at the Builth tup sale on the 23rd September from Geoff and Bridget Probert of the Mortimer flock. The first set of pics were taken last month in their “working clothes” while the second …
This week saw a trip down to Pembrokeshire in Wales, largely to cover the Welsh National Simmental Show, but as ever I managed to catch up with a few other friendly faces and their champions! Here’s the Welsh Simmental champion, the yearling bull Cwarre Jester from Debbie Cumming and a few other champions below. Images …
Trade was selective on Worcester with no doubt there was some concern in the air for trade going forward in to this year’s sheep selling season. However, quality was in abundance in the Texel rings with the annual production sale of the Loosebeare, Whitehart and Hendre flocks. Topping trade at 1850gns was a simmer from …
Ahead of Steve Smith and his family’s on farm production sale, this month has seen us give the Grange Limousin website a little makeover. A new set of photographs, featuring some of the females that will be offered for sale on the 12th September, were taken and the site moved over to a WordPress platform …
This week saw a trip to Shrewsbury for the annual show and sale of pedigree Shropshire Sheep. Trade was steady with a top call of 520gns for a ram lamb, 400gns for a shearling ram and two bids of 380gns for joint top priced females. Here’s the gallery, as well as a few of my …
What a first day at this year’s Royal Welsh…..and even managed a little mixing with Royal with the Badger Faces. It was a busy day on Monday with the Torwens and Torddus and some fantastic happy smiley faces to capture, particularly one stand out from the crowd red head who needs no introduction! Here’s the …
