Cheviot sheep: a breed apart. ... The Wicklow Cheviot Sheep Owners Association claims to have around 350 members, some of them resident over the county borders in Dublin or Carlow.

Chain Gate Cheviot stud principal Peter Simpson discusses his supreme champion ribbon win at the 2025 Australian Sheep & Wool Show. Video by Andrew Miller.

The Cheviot sheep is a breed of white-faced sheep which gets its name from this region, and therefore became the town’s mascot. If you live in Cheviot and would like to enter the contest ...

WICKLOW Cheviot Sheep Breeders Association marked 80 years of their show and sale held at Blessington Mart on Saturday, October 1. The Wicklow Cheviot Sheep Breeders Association has promoted the ...

Hardy Scottish sheep breed, the North Country Cheviot, will celebrate its 40th appearance at the Royal Welsh Show this year. A handful of dedicated breeders who had successfully begun to establish ...

Keith’s sheep enterprise includes 200-250 registered North Country Cheviot breeding ewes and around 100 purebred Texels. Keith said the rest are mainly North Country Cheviot Mules that are put ...

The Cheviot sheep is a breed of white-faced sheep and became a city mascot. Fair-goers will vote for the winning statue throughout the fair. The four-day fair is set for Thursday, ...

Rising costs and diminishing subsidies have made many upland farms review output and systems. Numerous units have switched to a Cheviot sire for this reason, either to breed replacements or as a ...

The 75th celebrations of the North Country Cheviot Sheep Society are on hold due to Covid-19, but achievements of the breed and the society have not been forgotten. The society was formed in 1945, ...

Like most pros, the Harjeses have hybridized their sheep over time to bring out various traits, breeding Texel or Dorper rams to ewes that are themselves crosses of Bluefaced Leicester rams with ...

To find a breed that would thrive on his hill farm, Jim looked to the traditional hardy hill sheep of northern England and Scotland. After much consideration, he settled on the North Country Cheviot, ...

The Cheviots were crossed with native Welsh sheep to develop the Brecknock Hill Cheviot. This is now the dominant breed in the area, and a flock of 5,000 ewes is still farmed by descendants of the ...