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
2024 Flock Book Published
September 16th, 2024
The NZ Southdown Society Flock Book for 2024 has been published and non-members and interested visit[read more]Annual Southdown Tour & AGM 2024
May 19th, 2024
The Manwatu and Wairarapa Southdown Tour and AGM began at Palmerston North on the 6th May, 2024 with[read more]One of our newest Southdown Studs featured on Wonderwall!
May 18th, 2024
Sometimes a sweet little story deserves big-time treatment. So it proved with one of the most strik[read more]Strong bids round off seasoned stud career
March 1st, 2024
Amberley’s Wayne and Jenny Chisnall have bowed out of Southdown breeding on a high. Strong biddin[read more]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]Strapped farmers holding on to older rams come sale time
December 15th, 2023
Sheep farmers feeling the pinch are keeping on old rams rather than replacing them this season, sout[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]
