Welcome to the Southdown Sheep Society website.
The Southdown sheep breed should be your first stop when looking for top performing mutton breeds and terminal sires to use with commercial flocks.
While our website will always be a work in progress we hope to add more and more information to support our members, our commercial partners, and the livestock farming industry in general. So have a look around our website, contact any of the Council or Breeders for more information, or if you have questions, we will only be to pleased to help.
The latest news items can be read by clicking on ‘Southdown News’ in the left column or at the top of each page, or for the latest three news items click a red headline below.
Latest Southdown News
Sale of prized ram puts more than 4000 meals on tables
February 13th, 2024
More than 4000 meals have been provided for less fortunate families from the generosity of one man a[read more]Probe tech data to help farmers marble meat better
December 3rd, 2023
Alliance Group will be deploying probes created by an Australian company to measure the marbling of [read more]New Zealand Agricultural Show: Southdown ewe the mother of all champions
November 25th, 2023
A champion ewe is the mother of all mothers in the show ring. The 2018-born ewe, 479-18, has produc[read more]A&P show a way to remember ancestors - Neville Moorhead
October 28th, 2023
A Southbridge farmer whose great, great uncle competed at the Ellesmere A&P Association’s f[read more]Ram prices continue to rise
December 9th, 2022
The pursuit to breed structurally sound, high-performing commercial rams continues in West Otago. [read more]2022 Flock Book Published
August 7th, 2022
The NZ Southdown Society Flock Book for 2022 has been published and non-members and interested visit[read more]Stud owners ready for a new chapter
March 7th, 2022
[Story by Sally Rae] For more than a century, the Punchbowl name has been synonymous with stu[read more]Ian Jordan made a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit
December 31st, 2021
Ian Jordan has come a long way since paying 30 guineas for a stud ewe, and he’s hoping his legs can [read more]Time to get out of the stud game after 50 years of sheep breeding
December 22nd, 2021
Colin and Liz Smith have made the big call to exit stud breeding after 50 years. A question from [read more]Chisholm getting a real buzz out of breeding Southdown sheep
December 15th, 2021
[Story by Sally Rae] Matt Chisholm is the new ram on the block in the world of stud s[read more]
