Scotsheep
NSA Scotsheep 2022
Organised by the Scottish region of the National Sheep Association, NSA Scotsheep 2022 will be held on Wednesday 1st June 2022, at Over Finlarg, Tealing, where Robert and Hazel McNee have built up a profitable business since moving to the farm in 2011. NSA Scotsheep 2022 will feature a farm tour, over 200 commercial, educational, sheep breed society, individual breeder and farmers market and craft stands, competitions, working demonstrations seminars, workshops, show and sale of pairs of ewe hoggs etc. Show & sale of ewe hoggs Top-quality ewe hoggs from well-known breeders across the country will be forward for the
multi-breed show and sale of ewe hoggs conducted by United Auctions. Nine classes will be on offer for Bluefaced Leicester, Mules, North Country Cheviot, Blackface, Suffolk, Texel, any other native breed, any other continental breed and any other cross breed, with both MV accredited and non-accredited sheep eligible for sale. The overall championship is being sponsored by Algo,
with Harrison & Hethertington, Parkside Veterinary Group, Savills and Thorntons Law confirmed as class sponsors. Tasked with judging the pre-sale show at 9am is United Auctions’ retired sheep auctioneer, Matt Stevenson from Gargunnock, Stirling, followed by the sale at 4pm. If sheep cannot be uplifted by purchasers on the day, it is hoped that arrangements can be made for buyers to collect their
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purchases from the premises of the vendor within 14 days. Fencing competition Fencing contractors will put their skills to the test, when they compete in a competition sponsored by Tornado Wire and James Jones and Sons Timber. Eight two-man teams will be tasked with erecting a section of high tensile stock netting (60-70 metres in length), with two end straining posts and a slight turn
