News - Bleu Du Maine

Welsh members

05/02/2025

Would you be interested in joining the NSA Wales Region Committee? The NSA invites a breed Society representative to join the committee. The meetings are held on the Royal Welsh showground and there are about 4/5 meetings a year. If you would be interested please let me know and I will pass your details onto the Region's secretary.

National Show & Sale Date Confirmed

14/01/2025

The date for our National Show & Sale at Carlisle is confirmed as the 14th pm & 15th August 2025.

DNA Kits

04/01/2025

A Happy New Year to everyone and just a little reminder that before any 2025 lambs can be registered we must have received a DNA sample from any rams that were used. Kits are available FOC, as is the testing in 2025. Please contact [email protected] Although they come in packs of 5, please just order the number you think you will need - Happy lambing :)

Merry Christmas!

18/12/2024

Christmas Newsletters are winging their way to members as we speak, an online copy can also be found in the Members Area.

On behalf of the council, Jane & Becky we wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a successful lambing.

DNA Testing of Rams

12/12/2024

Please order your kits and get your rams tested so that you can register the 2025 lambs. The Society is covering the full cost of this in the first year. Apply to the Society ([email protected]) for the number you require ( this is for stock rams) and these will be sent out from this office. Take the sample as directed and return the sample to the Society. We will have the samples analysed by Neogen and we will amend your sheep's recor...

Reserve Champion Carcass at Scottish National Winter Fair

28/11/2024

What a result at Scottish National Winter Fair!

Reserve Champion carcass was awarded to Martin Kennedy, Perthshire with a Beltex x Millennium Bleu

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Success at Malton Fatstock

28/11/2024

Congratulations to Jayne Burkill, winning best pen of three lambs at Malton Fatstock Show which were the sixth crop of lambs from an Aghavilly Millennium Bleu ewe.

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Changes for 2025

07/11/2024

Council have approved some magor changes for 2025 and they are outlined below. DNA Testing. All lambs going forward from 2025 will require the sire to have a DNA profile test. This applies to all lambs born by natural service and those used for AI. The Society will pay the costs of the DNA tests for your rams for 2025. Full details will be made available soon. Membership and Registration fees will remain unchanged, except for those registr...

Bluetongue Update from NSA

26/09/2024

The situation continues to develop with the numbers of affected premises now exceeding 100. The vast majority of these cases are within the Restricted Zone (RZ) in south east and eastern areas of England. When we first started seeing BTV3 arrive here in late August/early September Temporary Control Zones (TCZ) were set up with very tight restrictions in order to try to reduce the risk of spread at a time when identified cases were caused directl...

Sheep Breeders Round Table Conference 2024 - Breeding Sheep for a Greener Future

23/09/2024

Tickets are on sale for the 2024 SBRT Conference taking place on the 15-17th November 2024 at the central location of the Radisson Blu Hotel East Midlands, Derby, DE74 2TZ. Please use the links below for the programme and online ticket purchases: The full conference programme is now available Online tickets are on sale now or for group bookings please contact me directly We have developed some social media graphics (see enclosed attachment...