Oooooh it's a warm one!

Even here in the Eden Valley, Cumbria, North England, we're experiencing much higher temperatures than normal and less rain...but we are getting rain so we have grazing so we are much luckier than our southern neighbours.

This summer,  I've been contacted by several UK babydoll owners or hopeful owners about what to do about buying non-registered babydolls... the simplest way to advise on this is: if your breeder is not a NABSSAR registered, they are simply not pure 100% Olde English Babydoll Southdowns - do not buy.

 

An unregistered babydoll is not a 'bargain'... it is an unknown breed of sheep.

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Remember this breed is building it's way back from UK extinction, with less than 300 breeding babydolls in Europe so there is good reason why they are an investment and very rare.

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Even if the babydoll looks like a babydoll... when you try to breed, the genetic breeding pool is so small you have to know the bloodline, or you most certainly run the risk of inbreeding, which is a disaster for the future of the breed and a serious health risk to your sheep.

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I can help by saying, click here to view the list of UK breeders is on NABSSAR website, check them out, ask questions to verify they are indeed, raising pet sheep and make sure the breeder is on top of vaccinations and their general health.

You can read my latest blog on the questions I would ask before buying pet babydoll sheep. Hope this helps avoid some of the heartache people are suffering who are unable to breed their purchased unregistered sheep because they have no way of finding a record of their parentage or even breed history.

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