South West Region

Welcome to the News & Events page for the South West Region, which includes the counties of Dorset, Devon, Somerset, Cornwall and Guernsey. (If you scroll down to the bottom of this page you can see maps showing members flocks as of 8th April 2013)

Regional Council Member

Mrs Angela Gilbert
Compton Castle
Marldon
Paignton
Devon
TQ3 1TA

Tel: 01803 872112 Email: gilbertam@gmail.com

News & Events in 2013

New Members

Latest New Members In The SW Region

During 2012 We Welcomed 14 New Members To The Region.

Since November update 8 new members have joined the JSS in the SW. : Mr Alexander Darwall with the Sandridge Flock No 4958 from Ivybridge, Mrs S Thompson with Rookleigh Flock No 4960 from Tiverton and Mr J Hooper with Great Fir Flock No 4965 from Ottery St Mary, Devon. February 2013:...another new member! Mr K Dymond from near Honiton with his Marlcombe flock no 4968, March: Two new members, Mr Sparks-Clark with Chandler flock No 4974 from Weston Super Mare and Mrs S Bray with Anna's flock no 4976. April. Welcome to Miss Wotton and Mr P Symons from Ivybridge who have joined with Moorcross Flock No 4977. May. We are also so glad that Mr & Mrs Aston from near Liskeard have joined with flock no 4981, which will be called Avalwedhen when they get some Jacob sheep! They visited our stand at Devon County last year.

I do hope you will all join in the events we are organising this year in the South West and I look forward to meeting you all.

forthcoming events Diary and downloadable Entry forms

Devon County Show May 16th, 17th 18th. The SW Breed Promotion Stand will be there with popular spinnner and JSS member Jane Moor demonstrating.
Royal Bath & West Show 29th May-1st June. The South West Breed Promotion Stand will be in attendance there.
Open Day Sunday August 18th 2013 at Julian Newth’s Prestcombe Flock (3608) (Opposite Bath & West Showground)

SW Area JSS Entry Form for Open Day August 18th 2013 Please complete & return by August 10th

NSA Sheep SW Open Day 11th June 2013 Moortown Barton, Knowstone, S. Molton, Devon. The SW Breed Promotion Stand and some of Chris Slee's sheep will be there.
Show & Sale of Registered Jacob Sheep (at RBST Show & Sale) Sedgemoor Auction Centre, Thursday 26th September 2013 at Sedgemoor Auction Centre, N. Petherton, Bridgwater, TA6 6DF, to Include Wool on the Hoof show. Please return entry form below by August 22nd to GTH

Downloadable Entry Form for Jacob Show & Sale; Downloadable Rules for this Show & Sale

(NB. This form above is NOT to be used for any unregistered Jacob sheep. These or commercial Jacobs can be entered for sale after the sale of all registered Jacobs, by applying direct to GTH for a separate form)

Fleece Competition to be held at the Sedgemoor Show & Sale 26th September for the SW Wool Cup

Downloadable Entry Form for Fleece Only as above

SW Regional AGM. Sunday October 20th 2013, Old Feniton Village Hall, Nr Honiton, EX14 3BG

For SW regional news please click on news letter below:

Open Day August 18th. This is to be held in Somerset, opposite the Royal Bath & West Showground Entrance, at the Prestcombe flock with many thanks to Julian Newth. Apart from Jacob sheep, Julian has cross bred lambs, show pigs and a dairy herd. He has arranged for us to get Live Lamb Grading Instruction in the morning and a Butchery demonstration in the afternoon, as well as promising us a hog roast, and maybe some stock pig judging for those that would like to have a go! As Julian lives near the Central Region, Southern Region and even Welsh region, members from other areas would be very welcome to come to this interesting day.

Show & Sale 2013 Following on from last year's success, the Show & Sale again will again be held this year in league with the RBST. The Date is Thursday September 26th. Please put this date in your diary. There will be an official Jacob inspection before the Show and an official Jacob judge to judge the entries. This year we will also be holding a Wool on the Hoof class. We are extremely grateful to our main sponsor, The Natural Fibre Company, which will be giving prize money for the Champion, Reserve Breed Champion and Champion and Reserve Wool on the Hoof. Don't forget to enter a fleece for the SW Wool Cup too! All entry forms above

For Main Show Results during 2013 please scroll down or see Facebook link for results of smaller shows.

The South West Region has its own Facebook Page to keep regional members up to date with breed promotion, results and news. This page is updated regularly by Chris Slee, so do check to see what is happening within the region. Click on the SW logo below to be taken straight to the Facebook page.

Latest News

May 16th Devon County Show. JSS SW Breed Stand has won the Gold Medal for the second year running! Many thanks to Chris and Charlottee for putting up the stand, to Vicky Hammond for re-doing some of the imformation for the boards, and also producing her stunning felted jacob goods, and to Jane Moor for spinning away and attracting members. Chris & Charlotte also won the Champion Jacob and shared the points cup with David and Mary Biggs. More details & photos later on.
May 12th Open Day at Bere Ferrers at Peter Gorringe's Shutecombe Flock (4805). More than 35 of us had a good day at Peter's flock, with many thanks for their fantastic hospitality, and help from other members too. We were honoured to have the Chairman of the JSS, Robert Locker with us. Members were really impressed with the quality of the sheep and newer members learnt from Anna Milner what points to look out for in the Jacob. They then had a chance to handle the shearling ewes, some with spectacular wool and put them in their order of preference. Robert Locker then explained the order the judges would choose. Members also saw the young lambs all going on well and looking very fit! After lunch both Charlotte and Chris Slee showed members how to undertake various stock tasks and answered any questions. Members then went to their other field overlooking the river and saw the two rams, bred by Bridget Wilson that have been used and the older lambs too. It was a cold day but most members had come prepared .... and said how much they had enjoyed it.
From the Jacob Sheep Society AGM April 2013!

Many Congratulations Firstly: to Jane Moor from Exeter for winning the Individual Entry of the Wool Cup for a hat, mitts and bag set. (The photo taken on my ipad does not do the entry justice!) There were hundreds of entries from around the country and Ireland too, so we are delighted this cup has come to the South West. Many thanks indeed to not only Jane, but to Anna Milner for organising and collecting the SW entries and also for entering the competition herself and to other South West members who entered, Vicky Hammond, Sarah Weaver and Sue Blacker for going to the trouble of submitting some really super entries too.

Also Many Congratulations to Christopher Slee for winning the "Young Person of the Year Trophy", which was presented at the AGM meeting in recognition of all hew has done to help the region and the society.

We did see some nice sheep from the Eastern Region too...below!

Photos. If anyone has some nice Jacob lamb photos taken this year, do send them in and I will put them on the website, space permitting.

"South West Lambing Live Day" January 2013



Photos show vet Liz demonstrating possible mal presentations of a lamb, and Chris Slee tubing a lamb

Nineteen members attended this day with thanks to our hosts, the Slee family in Buckland Brewer in January. The morning session covered the feeding regime for in-lamb ewes; ewe diseases and vaccination; lambing pens and equipment disinfection; lambing equipment and stores needed. At lunchtime, Marilyn Slee kindly provided us all with hot soup to go with our picnics. Two of their ewes decided to lamb in front of everyone, with Chris and Charlotte Slee quickly demonstrating what to do. After lunch their vet, Liz, showed everyone, with the help of a dead lamb, the various ways lambs can be positioned in a ewe’s uterus and when assistance might be needed and how to go about it; also she demonstrated how to inject glucose into an over 5 hour old hypothermic lamb. She showed us some good photos on her laptop of lambs with Schmallenberg disease and how to identify this. It was all very useful revision for the more experienced and essential for the newer members. Chris demonstrated how to feed a new lamb with a stomach tube, and Charlotte how to bottle feed a lamb, before demonstrations of castrating and correct ring tail docking and ear tagging new lambs with temporary tags for the benefit of some newer members there.

For Main Show Results during 2013 please scroll down or see Facebook link for results of smaller shows.