Mayo Mule & Greyface Sheep

Mule & Greyface Sheep Group Aims

To work together with the common goal of producing quality prolific breeding stock both hoggets and ewe lambs that are fully traceable and of a high disease free status.
To promote the Mayo Mule & Greyface breed as a dam for producing the ideal factory lamb for the French market and the home trade.
To organise an Annual sale for prime breeding stock to cater for an existing customer base and new customers.
The group is actively involved in genotyping and members are now only allowed to use category 1 or 2 rams.

Blackface Mountain Ram Group - Judging rams at the annual ram sales day

Photo: Micheal Fagan, Teagasc, Grange, weighing mule lambs for the group ensuring they are a minimum of 36.5kg at the sale.

About the Mule & Greyface Sheep Breed

The Mayo Mule is a cross between the Scottish Blackface and the Blue-faced Leicester whilst the Grey face is a cross between the Scottish Blackface and the Border Leicester. Both crosses are renowned for their qualities including:

Hardiness
Mothering Ability
Milkiness
Ease of care at lambing
Prolifacy - 1.6 to 1.7 lambs reared per ewe to the ram

Mayo Mule & Greyface Sheep - annual sales
Tom Stauntion, Chairman with Ned and John Kidd, Carlow
who purchase stock at the sale every year.

Sales

See the sales page for up-to-date information on Mule & Greyface sheep sales.