Black Oak Valais Blacknose NZ

Flock #7 - Established 2018

Owned by Mark and Jane Foster, Helensville

My husband Mark and I, along with our three children live on our 140 acre ex-dairy farm on the Kaipara Harbour in the Helensville area of Auckland. The farm is predominantly used for dairy grazing and calf rearing. I saw a picture of a Valais Blacknose lamb on Facebook and was instantly smitten. I contacted Valais Blacknose NZ and joined the breeding up programme which involved buying 7 English Leicester ewes, scanned in lamb and sired by the purebred UK registered ram, Heartland Aristotle. I now have 5 F1 ewes who will go to an unrelated ram soon to produce the next generation of F2’s.

We are continuing with our breed-up programe, now having F1s and F2s.

Meanwhile, I have become a member of the newly formed Valais Blacknose Breed committee and recently imported 6 embryos from a top breeder in the UK to implant into recipients.

We now have purebred Valais Blacknose from the embryos  we imported in 2019 and are breeding pure bred Valais Blacknose sheep.

Purebred Valais Blacknose ram 'Highland Adam'
Purebred Valais Blacknose ram 'Highland Adam'
F1 Valais Blacknose/English Leicester cross lambs
F1 Valais Blacknose/English Leicester cross lambs
F1 Valais ewe with her F2 Valais ewe lamb
F1 Valais ewe with her F2 Valais ewe lamb
Purebred Valais Blacknose
Purebred Valais Blacknose