Welcome to Mendip Charollais and Zwartbles sheep website,
we are situated at approx 750' on the Mendip Hills in Somerset, England, very close to the spa city of Bath, Wells and the famous Cheddar Gorge which is traditionally a dairy farming area. We started keeping sheep in the mid 1970s , originally to save mowing our turf as we were running a successful landscape gardening business at the time. Peter originally came from a farming background in Tollard Royal on the Cranborne Chase on the Wiltshire /Dorset boarder so seemed natural progression to utilise stock to save work. At that time we kept various commercial breeds mainly mules and scotch half breds put to Suffolk Tups. We then added a poll dorset flock for early lambing due to the local amount of winter grass on dairy farms that was available, but became fed up of lazy lambs not fighting for life at birth and overfat lambs. At the time we were selling deadweight to Lloyd Maunder in Cullompton, Devon where Peter was told to have a look at a new breed of sheep to the country called the Charollais, having only heard of the Charolais cattle we were intrigued. A visit to an NSA open day and a few phone calls |