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The
Irish Beltex Breeders Club
Chairman:
Kevin McCarthy, Mossbank Farm, Ballycreelly, Comber, County Down BT23
5PX
Tel: 02890 448 204
Vice-Chairman:
Edward O'Neill, 61 Dickeystown Road, Glenarm, Co. Antrim, BT44 0BA
Tel: 028 2884 1444
Secretary & PRO:
Martina McNeill, 85 Lisnaree Road, Banbridge, Co. Down, BT32 4JU
Tel: 028 4062 3703
Treasurer:
Ruth Clarke, 80 Creevy Road, Boardmills, Lisburn, Co. Antrim BT27 6UL
Tel: 028 9263 8596
Other committee members:
Dermott Murray, Mark Latimer, Thomas Palmer, Elizabeth McAllister,
Wade McCrabbe, Brendan McQuaid, Alfie Murray, & Hugh O’Neill
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Spring 2008 Newsletter 
IRISH BELTEX SHEEP BREEDERS CLUB FEMALE
SALE
SATURDAY 15th DECEMBER 2007
The Irish Beltex Sheep Breeders Clubs Sale of females in
Pedigree Sales
Arena, Moira on Saturday 15th December saw a good clearance of numbers forwarded
and an increased top price of 750gns. [ report]]
IRISH BELTEX BREEDERS CELEBRATE SUCCESSFUL
YEAR
Irish Beltex Breeders celebrated a most successful club year at
their Annual Dinner and Presentation of Awards at Rosspark Hotel,
Kells. Club vice-chairman, Eddie O’Neill, was Master of Ceremonies
for the evening and welcomed special guests Kevin and Rachel Buckle
from Barras, Kirkby Stephen, Cumbria, and Gavin Shanks and his
partner Alice from Bowmanhurst Farm, by Carluke, Lanarkshire. [report]
DUNGANNON SALE
The Irish Beltex Sheep Breeders Club enjoyed
an increased demand and trade at their Premier Show & Sale in Dungannon Farmers
Mart on Saturday 1st September 2007, the first Beltex Sale of 2007
due to the Foot & Mouth Disease in GB. The large crowd of visitors
and purchasers were attracted from as far south as Cork, the new
home for four of the female entries, with breeders also making
the trip from Scotland.
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| Supreme Champion |
The judge, Allan Jackson from Biggar, Lanarkshire,
was delighted with the quality of sheep presented in front of him,
and awarded the Supreme Champion prize to a two-shear ram, Langlands
Jock,
owned by Cynthia Aiken and bred by J&S Wilkinson, North Yorkshire.
This group 1 genotype ram was Interbreed Champion in Lurgan Show
earlier in the year and is a grandson of Tullygarley Elite,
the breed’s 34,000gn price record holder. He sold at the
sale’s top price of 1,200gns to Gavin Shanks from Lanarkshire.
[view full report]
Show
Results 2007>>
BALLYMENA SALE
This year has brought an increased
demand across the province for Beltex as a terminal sire, with commercial
producers from as far afield as Ballycastle, Mayobridge and Fintona ‘taking
the plunge’ and
making their first purchase to bring that extra quality and premium
to their farm gate. [view
report ]
IRISH BELTEX CLUB 4th ANNUAL SHOW AT GLENARM
CASTLE
Friday 13th didn’t deter the Irish
Beltex Club from having their 4th Annual Club Show at Glenarm
Castle Open Day, and the deluge of rain in the afternoon
had held off long enough to enable a very enjoyable show
to reach its conclusion. [view
report]
SUN SHINES ON IRISH BELTEX CLUB OPEN
DAY IN RAPHOE
The Irish Beltex Sheep Breeders Club held
a very successful Open Day on
Saturday 14th April 2007 at the Donegal farm of breeders Wade & Alison
McCrabbe in Raphoe. [view
report]
IRISH BELTEX SHEEP BREEDERS CLUB
FEMALE SALE
Following the absence of a Female Sale
in 2005, Irish breeders were determined to promote the growth of
the breed on home soil, and a small select entry of top quality females
were presented for the Scrapie-Monitored Sale at the Pedigree Sales
Arena, Moira on Saturday December 16th 2006.
[view
report]
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