Shropshire farmer Hayden Woolley uses data to breed wool shedding sheep. He started with 60 sheep and now has one of the largest commercial shedding flocks, breeding EasyCare and Exlana sheep mainly. By 2024, he plans to have all 3000 shedding ewes in full performance recording, almost double his current flock size.

Sheep performance

Hayden is focusing on flock performance to save costs, increase profits and to breed an efficient and sustainable sheep. Some of this year's lamb crop have been sired by imported rams from New Zealand, Australia and Great Britain.

Each lamb is being recorded in the field using iLivestock.

Farm highlights

📍 The Albynes, Bridgnorth, WV16 4SX, Shropshire, United Kingdom
🚜 Sheep and arable farmer
🐑 4,000 ewe flock, mainly EasyCare and Exlana, alongside 700 New Zealand Romneys
🧭 Farm area 1,700 acres: 450 owned; 300 acres of arable and temporary grass, the rest permanent pasture.

iLivestock features used on the farm:

• Group animal records
• Group medicine records
• Breeding
• Ewe performance reports
• Movements register