TWEED, GREY PEEL & ETTRICK Flocks - Harrison & Hetherington

Tweed Flock7Dispersal Sale of the Entire Mature Portion of theTWEED FLOCKon behalf of Mr Neil S CrightonForewordI have decided to offer the entire Tweed flock of Texels for sale, with the adult portion to besold in January and the 2012 ewe lambs to be sold next year as gimmers.Tweed Texels have always been bred to supply good commercial tups for sale at Kelso,when the first tups were sold there in 1989. I have sold annually every year since, exceptin the foot and mouth year. Sales at Kelso have reached up to £7,800, £5,000, £4,000,£2,500 several times and in 2001 the Tweed prefix had the top average for 45 rams sold.In 2010 I averaged over £1,000 for 32 tups and have a sound following of repeat buyersat the Kelso Ram Sales.In 2002 I started recording the Tweed flock with the sire reference scheme and stillcontinue to do so. In 2012 the flock is in the top 10% (20th of the 200 flocks in the Signetrecording scheme).Out of 200 lambs each year the Tweed flock is third overall (behind Drinkstone andLlanferess).I have always aimed to improve my muscle depth EBV’s and the flock is in the top 9% forscan weights. The contentious issue of fat depth EBV will pull the flocks overall index downas I have aimed for positive fats over the last five years and now have an overall flock fatEBV of 0.16.8 Week Weight EBV Scan Weight EBV Muscle Depth EBV Gigot EBV2003 2.49 4.74 0.23 1.772004 2.38 4.69 0.36 1.862005 2.49 4.84 0.86 1.882006 2.93 6.02 1.61 2.962007 3.1 6.12 1.83 3.482008 3.63 7.34 2.16 4.022009 3.57 7.27 2.56 3.212010 3.57 7.71 3.08 4.262011 3.99 8.65 3.2 4.632012 4.93 10.52 2.85 5.3The flock is MV Accredited (last test Oct 2012) and is in good health. The ewes are all onHeptavac P and will have been fluked. The gimmers are routinely vaccinated with Toxovaxand Enzovax which was done again in 2012.I would expect the ewes and gimmers on offer to go on and do well for prospective buyersand would hope they get as much enjoyment as I have had.Neil Crighton