Firstly, they were bred to suit the environment of the South Downs and secondly, because we firmly believe the produce is the finest tasting lamb that can be found!

To offer the best lamb at all times we keep a variety of female breeds. This includes fifty Polled Dorsets, again a breed that is at home on the south coast, that can breed at any time throughout the year. We lamb them in November. They are put to a Hampshire ram and produce milk fed lambs as early as March.

Then we have our pure Hampshire and Southdowns. We lamb these from the 1st of February as they naturally breed early in the year. We then have lambs ready for late May onwards.

Lastly we lamb the hill sheep, the Kerry, from Wales, and crossbred ewes, at the end of March for main season and autumn lamb. It’s a busy year!

All our sheep are grazed on our traditional, conservation pastures throughout the summer and fed hay and green crop roots in the winter.

We have 300 breeding ewes and a dozen very busy rams!