Wildzang Stud

Blue Texel Sheep

We have a herd off about 30 Scrapie and Maedi-Visna free Blue Texel Sheep.

My parents have around 15 ewe's and we have around 15 ewe's. Our ewe are producing around 2 lambs a year. Most off our ewe's are having 85 - 86 points for Overall Conformation.
The Blue Texel Sheep are well known because of their perfect meatness, like the white Texel sheep, but they are larger, and producing easier 2 lamb's a year with a lot less lamming problems.

All are sheep are ARR/ARR for already 4 years, and we are also Maedi-Visna free.

We are using in 2008 the 2 Ram's 08368-00678 & 26134-01250.

08368-00678 (AV 88 pnt)

Ram	used in	born	scrapie	ont	Bsp	Evr	Typ	Bw	Va	AV	Sht
08368-00678	2008	18-3-2005	ARR/ARR	90	88	87	88	85	85	88	73
26134-01250	2006 - 2008	25-3-2003	ARR/ARR	91	88	88	89	88	87	89	73
08401-00160	2004 - 2006	29-3-2001	ARR/ARR	90	89	87	89	84	88	89	72
08486-00300	2002 - 2004	18-3-2000	ARR/ARR	87	86	87	86	83	88	86	67
26013-00018	2000 - 2002	12-5-1999	ARR/ARR	90	89	88	88	87	88	89	74

History of the Blue Texel Sheep.
The name says all: we are talking about a Texel sheep with a blue fleece. Although probably there have been always spontanious colourvariants arised out of Texel sheep, it was not until 1977 before some people put attention to it. Since the late 70-ties some breeders have bred the blue colourvariant of the Texel pure. To meet to the wish to register the Blue Texel sheep in a proper way, the flockbook 'Blauwe Texelaars' had been raised in 1983. The use of the term 'blue' (in Dutch: 'blauw') originates from the fact that although the fleece looks white/gray or brown the colour inside the fleece is steel blue.

26067-00136 (AV 89 pnt)
A beautifull Blue Texel Ram, with length, hight, frame and meatness.

Characteristics of the breed
Blue Texel sheep are early maturing. The ewe lambs come already in heat at an age of about 7 month. The breeding season of the mature Blue Texel is nearly 5 month.
Not only the white Texel breed is known for its excellent carcass composition, so is the Blue Texel. The carcasses on average consist of 60 percent lean meat. Due to their extremely low fat covering, lambs of the Texel breed can be sold over a long period of time with different end-weights, without any loss of carcass quality. Because of the breed’s extremely high degree of meatiness, the carcass has a killing-out percentage of 55 - 60%.
The Blue Texel ewe is a good mother. The milk yield of a Blue Texel ewe is large enough for raising 2 lambs. Blue Texel sheep are excellent graziers and therefore easy to manage. This is also due to the good resistance to internal parasites.

The features of the Blue Texels are:

a fleece colour which varies from pretty dark to light
a white drawing on the head, the so called 'halter'
a white drawing on the upperlimbs and under the tail
a small band of white hair on tip of their ears

For more overall Information concerning the Blue Texel Sheep please contact:

Breedadministration
Mr K.A. Lunsche
Stelmaker 20
9321 KE Peize
tel. (+31) (0) 50 503 32 39
e-mail: k.a.lunsche@hetnet.nl

For more info from the above, please contact us by E-mail or Telephone, and we can supply you with the needed information.

Visitors are always welcome, but please ring first.

Contact:
Wildzang Stud Jr
Fam. D.Valk-Smolders
Goudenpolderdijk 2; 4508 NV Waterlandkerkje; The Netherlands
Tel: +31.117.450175 - E-mail: davalk@hetnet.nl

Or
Wildzang Stud Sr
Fam. H.Valk
Noordoosterweg 24; 7791 RA Radewijk; The Netherlands
Tel: +31.523.216438