A sheep of a hardy, hornless breed with a heavy fleece, originally developed on the Dutch island of Texel in the province of North Holland.
特塞尔绵羊
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Champion sheep was a Texel shown by D & D J Eunson of Halley in Deerness whilst R W Flaws of Nisthouse in Evie took reserve.
In keeping with tradition, entries in the bigger sheep and cattle breeds, such as the Texel and Holstein Friesian breeds, are up.
Graham says the aim is to breed a more modern type of Suffolk to enable the breed to compete with such continental strains as the Texel.
Fifteen-year-old James Winter, who has only been breeding sheep for two years, won the champion sheep title with his Texel.
They run 300 commercial Texel ewes, plus a flock of 150 pedigree Texels for producing 450 fat lambs a year, plus Shearling breeding rams for sale, and also have a 145-cow beef suckler herd.
Entries have been particularly strong in the Limousin and Holstein cattle breeds and in the Texel and Suffolk sheep categories.
The family also had the supreme and reserve pens of pure-bred Texels and took the best single butcher's lamb award.
The winning lamb was a pen of six June-born commercial Texels bred by the Windsors, of Fforest, Whitland, averaging 40 kg and selling at £84 apiece.
The previous record of 1,538 was set in 1995 and this year sees increases in breeds as diverse as Wensleydale and Texels.
He not only won the Perpetual Challenge cup for the best pair of female sheep but his three-year-old Texel ewe was crowned best Texel and best female.