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As we come to the close of the year and look back on a sucessful year for the breed and the Association, attention will start to turn to the production of the 2019 flock book. BWMSBA needs good quality photographs of prolific show winners from 2018 for inclusion in the publication. Ideally, photos should be primarily of the sheep, rather than being a "people" picure. In order to reproduce well w...

For those who still haven't sent in your annual flock returns (they should have been sent in by the end of December) the ABSOLUTE FINAL deadline will be the end of January. If not received by then, your flock details will not be included in the next flock book. Please remember that 2019 subscriptions fall due on January 1st and fees need to be paid by 31st January 2019.  Many Thanks.  ...

This year's Royal Welsh Winter was well supported by BWMSBA members as ever with a good number of pairs forward for judging. The judge, Mr Ian Davies, Bedlwyn Farm, New Tredegar sorted through the entries a picked a pair of ewe lambs from Miss Eryn Stephens as his winners.  Eryn (pictured above with her Dad) was delighted with her sucess, but decided not to offer the lambs for sale, opting inste...

Correction from the Autumn Newsletter: Qualifying Shows for the 2019 Gaer Award will be: RWAS Spring Festival, 18—19 May Royal Three Counties Show, 14—16th June Monmouth Show - 6th July Royal Welsh Show, 22nd—25th July New Forest Show, 30th July—1st August Eglwysbach Show, 10th August Llandeilo Show, 17th August. NO DOUBLE POINTS SHOW IN 2019 ALSO NOTE THAT IN 2019, POINTS FROM GROUP CLASSES W...

As many of you will know 2020 will see the BWMSBA celebrate 100 years since it's inception. The Association is planning several special events to mark this significant milestone.  The finale to the year of celebrations will be a gala dinner to be held on the 3rd October 2020, at the Celtic Royal Hotel in Caernarfon, just a short distance from the venue of Association's first ever meeting at Plas...

Black Welsh Mountain Breeders on the island of Ireland are looking to bring in new bloodlines from mainland UK, but current import rules dictate that any animals entering have to be from scapie monitored flocks or must've been individually genotyped and found to be Group 1 ARR/ARR.  If anyone is testing their rams for scrapie genotypes, or may be interested in doing so, please contact the office...