Blessington Archives - Irish Texel https://irishtexel.com/tag/blessington/ The Irish Texel Sheep Society Sun, 25 Nov 2018 20:32:07 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 Blessington Premier Sale https://irishtexel.com/blessington-premier-sale/ Wed, 16 Aug 2017 20:24:45 +0000 http://irishtexel.com/?p=7771 Greenstar Flock produces a Star with their first lamb at Blessington Premier. Greenstar Alfie, a Wallstreet son definitely produced Wallstreet figures by hitting €17,000. The outstanding son of Tophill Wallstreet was sold after hurried bidding to Milnbank, Strathbogie and Seaforde Texels. Mr. John Mellin from Hullhouse Texels U.K. had earlier tapped him forward as his

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Greenstar Alfie, a Wallstreet son definitely produced Wallstreet figures by hitting €17,000. The outstanding son of Tophill Wallstreet was sold after hurried bidding to Milnbank, Strathbogie and Seaforde Texels. Mr. John Mellin from Hullhouse Texels U.K. had earlier tapped him forward as his 1st placed Novice Ram, then Male Champion and Supreme Overall Champion.

John Greene also sold a full brother of the Champion for 5700 to Rodney McLaughlin, Clara Texels

The Reserve Male Champion exhibited by Anthony Donnelly Lot 212 DII1701298 also a grandson of Wallstreet by Knock Yazoo was purchased by McHugh Bros from Donegal for €4800.
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In the female classes Mr. Mellin found his Champion in a hoggett ewe sired by Claybury Warrior exhibited by A&P O’Keeffe OKI16029, she sold for 1450 to Ben Kelly. Reserve Female Champion was awarded to D&E McManamon with a daughter of Forkins Will-I-Am and a Strathbogie Stiffler ewe she was purchased by Donegal breeder James McGrath for €2300. The highest priced female was Lot 15 exhibited by Flor Ryan, Ryan Texels. This flashy daughter of Duncryne Uber Cool was snapped up by Hexel Texels for €4300.

Flor Ryan and John Donohoe then went on to purchase a son of Cressage Yankee bred by McHugh Bros Donegal for €3000. John Greene then presented Lot 305 a full brother to Greenstar Alfie into the ring. He was purchased for €2600 by Noel Gallagher Agricare Texels Co. Donegal. Ronan Gallagher then hit €2600 with a son of Tophill Union Jack selling to Michael Sinnott Co.Wexford. Co. Cork breeders Eddie & Sheena McCarthy snapped up another very catchy son of Tophill Will Street for €2400, bred by Willie Doherty’s Hillcrest flock from Co. Donegal. John Greene then continued his winning ways by selling a Strathbogie Yabba Dabba Do son for 2200 to Co. Meath Texel breeder Pascal Keogh. A son of Knap Your the Man from Thornville Texels was purchased by J, C & M McHugh for €2100. They then recovered their outlay by selling a Maineview Will-I-Am son at the same money to Edward Buckley Kilbarry Texels Co. Cork

P&B Farrell sold Oberstown Ysagyum sired by Procters Ventura to Michael Murphy’s Co. Galway Texel flock for €1900. Also at €1900 a lamb sired by Mac’s Wannabes bred by Shane McHugh found his new home in the Hillswood Flock of Tom Kenny Co. Roscommon. A commercial buyer got value in Lot 253 by Foundry Texels when he purchased a powerful ram sired by Greenhill Yemen Boy for €1800.

Commercial rams sold for between €370 right up to the top commercial price of €1800, the average was €1089.

Pedigree rams cleared at varying prices ranging between €350 to the top price of the day for the Champion at €17000. Overall there was an 82% clearance rate across the sale. Female clearance at 69%, with prices from €420 to €4200 for the highest.

Female Champion                        Lot 212 A&P O’Keeffe Co Cork Sold for €1450

Reserve Female Champion            Lot 24 D&E McManamon Sold for €2300

Male & Supreme Champion                                     Lot 195 C&L Greene            Sold for €17000

Reserve Male & Res Supreme Champion            Lot 212 Anthony Donnelly Sold for €4800

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]]> Texel leave Spare time for Zoé https://irishtexel.com/texel-leave-spare-time-for-zoe/ Wed, 18 May 2016 14:37:36 +0000 http://irishtexel.com/?p=23 TEXEL SHEEP LEAVE SPARE TIME WITH ZOE Zoe & Johnny Payne farm outside Rathangan in Co.Kildare. Their farming system consists of 300 commercial ewes, and a store to beef finishing system. Johnny works part time off farm as a factory agent for lamb and beef. In spring he coordinates the purchase of Friesian bull calves

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Zoe & Johnny Payne farm outside Rathangan in Co.Kildare. Their farming system consists of 300 commercial ewes, and a store to beef finishing system.
Johnny works part time off farm as a factory agent for lamb and beef. In spring he coordinates the purchase of Friesian bull calves for export.
The 300 ewe flock consists now of mainly Texel cross ewes. The Payne’s have found that the Texel is performing well in their farming system both as ewes and as the main ram breed. “Initially Suffolk and Charolais rams were used but after first introducing Texel rams we noticed that the Texel cross lambs were performing better in our system and we made the decision quickly to use all Texel rams on the commercial flock.”
According to Johnny, “We mainly buy our Texel & Texel cross ewes at the Hiltex ewe sale in Ballinrobe in August. The one thing that stood out after buying our first batch was their fantastic mothering ability, which allows us to get ewe and lambs out to grass within a day or two days of lambing. This reduces both workload and housing requirements at lambing time. It also helps to reduce forage and concentrate costs. We find that they were easy lambed, lambs are clean requiring less worm dosing and easily finished off grass.” “As a large part of our income is derived from producing high quality factory lambs as efficiently and as quickly as possible, we always find that Texel lambs grade very well and maintain a lean carcass with higher percentage kill out,” says Zoe. Johnny sees the benefit of producing quality Texel lambs as he finds that from his job as a lamb procurement officer and also in his experience quality Texel lambs consistently achieve the highest prices when they are either sold live in the mart or slaughtered at the factory.

Zoe, who comes from a non-farming background, is currently waiting on acceptance to do the Green Cert, and in her spare time her off farm passion is weightlifting. She quickly developed a passion for the breed and all things agriculture and decided to join the Irish Texel Sheep Society and started her own pedigree flock in 2012, Mountvilla Texels. The pedigree flock consists of 20 ewes. “We are paying particular attention to selecting flock replacements and select our replacement ewe lambs early in the year.”

Zoe, with their 3-year old son Rocky, is also pro-active in the management of the commercial flock.
“Since we moved to Texel replacements, the traits that they are breeding into our flock include easier handling at lambing, greater prolificacy and less fostering due to their great mothering ability. We also find the Texel cross ewes are better value as they out live other breeds and have a higher cull value. The Texel breed has greatly increased the flock standard and encouraged my interest and love for farming with the Texel.”
The Payne’s will be buying their commercial ewe replacements at this year’s Hiltex ewe sale in Ballinrobe on Saturday 22nd August. Stock rams are purchased at the Texel Premier Sale in Blessington where, with 250 rams on offer, any buyer is guaranteed to find a Texel to suit his or her budget.

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