Hall Lane Poll Dorset Flock - The Flock
Our initial flock of 50 ewes and Blackhill Champion were purchased from Jim Dufosee, to provide us with some lambs for the children to enjoy during our Nativity Play events in the run up to Christmas. However, we soon caught the pedigree showing bug, our first success being a 2nd in the ewe lamb class at the Yorkshire show in 2004.This success encouraged us to ‘do the job properly’ so over the last 5 years we have become both M.V. accredited and Signet recorded. This recording has benefited our stock selection to the point where we have seen our Sire Index rise from 143 to 249 points over the period, with a 50 point rise in Maternal Index. We now have over 120 ewes to put to the tups at the end of June 2010 plus 90 ewe lambs retained from our own November/December lambing. 2010 May Fair purchases Sherborne Nashwan and Ballytaggert Nyjinski, along with our home bred Hall Lane Lancelot, will share most of the work getting our ewes in lamb this year. Work is perhaps not quite the right word to use - 'mixing business with pleasure' might be a better phrase!
Future aims – short term to become 100% Group 1 genotype, longer term – the continued enhancement of the performance and conformation of the flock. Winning the flock competition and selling a tup for 5,000 guineas would be good for morale too!!
 K400 , Hall Lane Klassic, was Champion shortwool, lowland sire at Yorkshire Show July 08 and is being used as a stock Tup this year |
 Stock tup Charlton Jaguar J41 with his girlfriends. July 08 |
 December 2009 born Ram lamb L14 |
 2009 Ewe lambs placed 2nd in their class in the 2009 Flock Competition |