Baby Doll Southdown

 

About the breed:

The Olde English Southdown sheep was very popular back through the centuries, in England, and was introduced to America, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, but almost became extinct when a breeding program upsized the breed for better meat production into the modern Southdown. Luckily some breeders, who were fond of the original compact cuties, kept some of the original Southdown’s pure. Enough genetic material was found around the world to resurrect the original form into what is now known as the Baby Doll Southdown.

This is a very old and rare breed slowly making a comeback into popularity, as pets, and particularly as an orchard sheep to keep Vineyards and orchards grazed and fertilised with no need for fossil fuel mowing. Being short-legged, short-necked and long-bodied  they cannot reach up high enough to damage crops making them an ideal green solution.
 

Our Baby Doll Sheep:

We have two small mobs on our farm. Joey and Renan have a breeding up flock and are now very close to purebreds. At Pōhatu we started out with three old purebred ewes and two great little cuties from the North Island. We were extremely lucky to get the awesome little purebred Ram Nightrave Scooter, of Australian purebred genetics, measuring just 50cm at the shoulder.

  Scooter gave us our first home-born purebred lambs from our old girls.
Our second ram is of Northern Hemisphere genetics and we aim to use the best genetics we can find to build a mob to be proud of.
Any baby Doll sheep for sale will be featured on our for-sale page.