The Flock

Our flock is a pedigree Jacob flock in the Weald of Kent

We run a breeding flock in the heart of Kent, with 30-70 sheep (depending on the time of year) roaming on 30 acres of fields. We keep our own rams and keep distinct bloodlines so that we can run a 'closed flock'. 

Jacob sheep are amongst the oldest breed of sheep in the world, dating back to biblical times (Jacob's piebald sheep...). They first came into the UK from the Middle East in around 1700, but almost became extinct by the 1960s, by when commercial sheep farming eclipsed unusual and native breeds. Thankfully, they are no longer endangered due to the work of the Jacob Sheep Society and its community of Jacob sheep farmers - of which we are one. 

Jacobs are amongst the most friendly sheep - they come over for cuddles and biscuits, can learn their names, and are generally easy to look after. They are also great mums, usually having twins, and bringing up their lambs beautifully. Their wool is particularly prized as it is beautifully coloured, thick and resilient, and knits up beautifully.

Our ewes

Our small flock means we get to know the girls well. They all have their own personalities and preferences. Belle is the flock matriarch, and gets upset if she doesn't get taken for regular walks. Geraldine is the friendly, happy sheep who is always the first to greet every visitor, and loves a 'pronk' whenever she gets the change. Iris is auditioning for jobs in the circus with her walks on her hind legs, and Milly, who was bottle fed as a lamb, is a princess. 


This (pictured) is Geraldine.

Our Rams


We keep our own rams who, between them, are unrelated to the ewes. We have two 'main men' - Penni-Bach Jet, a prize winner from Yorkshire with a strong history, and Shutecombe Hercules who we bought as a lamb and is doing very well. We have two ram lambs from 2025 who will join the ram group next year - Hallwood Mercury (home bred) and Fenland Orion. All four have wonderful colouring, and are very tame. We also have a 'teaser ram' (he's had a vasectomy) called Malt (Teaser). We use Malt to get the girls into heat before our rams get to 'meet' them in the Autumn.

Our lambs

Each year we have 30-40 new lambs, who enjoy growing up on our farm. We can't keep them all, so we keep  our favourite 6-8 ewe lambs to add to the breeding flock - who then start breeding when they are 2 years old. We sell our other ewe lambs to other farmer as breeding ewes, and watch proudly as they have lambs of their own elsewhere.


The boys stay here until they are about a year old, when they either get sold (or kept) as rams, or go for humane slaughter to be meat, locally. They live a very happy life here.

Our 'pets'!

Each year. we have one or more lambs who need bottle feeding. This is usually because their mum either has too many lambs to feed (triplets) or there is a problem with the mum (illness or worse). Much as we try and tell our bottle-feds to 'go and be sheep', and despite them living in the fields with the others some still think we are their parents and behave more like pets! Our 'pets' include Meatloaf (a weather, a castrated boy, with the red collar) who thinks he is a dog, and Napoleon (a 'rig' - a boy who we failed to castrate fully.....). Milly (with the button nose) is now 3 years old and we hope she'll have lambs of her own this year!