The Courier & Advertiser (Angus and Dundee)
Interbreed win for the Ingrams
North-east family have won several top sheep awards in the past
A well-known family of sheep breeders from the north east was celebrating after winning the show’s sheep interbreed championship title.
The Ingram family – Willie and Carole and children Gregor, Bruce and Amy – run 2,200 ewes of different breeds at Logie Durno Farm, near Pitcaple, Inverurie.
The family are no strangers to success, having won several top industry awards in the past.
They are also famed for holding an on-farm tup sale every year.
Their Highland success came with a home-bred two-crop Charollais ewe – the family enjoyed huge success in the Charollais section winning the majority of the classes at the show.
The champion ewe is by Riverdale Noble and out of a Southam ewe bought for 1,800gns.
The family has lifted the top title once before with a Charollais in 2009.
Judge Willie Sanderson, of Blackshiels, Pathhead, Midlothian, said of his champion: “She was the most correct sheep in the whole yard.
“There was a great show of sheep, as you would expect at the Royal Highland Show.”
He awarded the reserve overall sheep interbreed title to the Bluefaced Leicester Traditional champion from the McClymont family at Kirkstead, Yarrow.
The two-shear ram, which is jointly owned by Philiphaugh Estates, was bought at Kelso last year from John Dykes for £3,200.
He is by a Red Cottage tup and was on his first show outing.
The judge described him as a “massive big sheep with tremendous character about him”.