1049 miles, 3 hotel rooms and 12 flocks later the judging is complete.

Cade or bottle-fed lambs can be the bane of a shepherd’s life, though for the new sheep keeper there is the wonderful novelty of training a newborn lamb to suckle from a bottle, the problem is that after 4 or 5 weeks the novelty definitely palls.

These two trophies celebrate the successes and achievements of the younger Southdown members, breeders and exhibitors.

Patrick Goldsworthy MBE Webb Ellis and Heritage Flocks

The Southdown Sheep Society is pleased to confirm that the 2026 National Southdown Show will take place at the Staffordshire Show on May 27th – 28th 2026. The Southdown classes will take place on Wednesday May 27th.

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