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With proud we present you our breeding stock, and give some information about the texel breed at our farm.

We life in the east of Holland, near the German border. At our farm we have about 150 Texel breeding ewes and 20 breeding rams. At our farm, about 10 hectare of grass is available for our sheep. And because we breed, we have to sell! We have sold and exported our sheep and semen all over the world.

About the Texel breed you can read something in this general breed information

Our main goals in breeding are; 2 lambs born per litter with adult ewes, fast growing lambs with a lot of muscles, ewes must be able to lamb at 12-13 moths of age.

To compare our breeding stock to other breeders, we visit shows to compete with our stock. With success, last National Texel Show in 2008 (once in 3 years) we won several Championships. We had the National Champion 1-year old ewes individual, and our pen of 3 yearling ewes won also the national championship. A 3 year old ewe of our stock won the reserve national championship and a yearling ewe with her ram lam won also reserve national championship. Our 4 year old ram and our 1-year old ram where placed at the best 5 rams of the show. For an impression on film, click  National Texel Show 2008

In 2009 the success we had in the 3 shows we competed, was even more. 8 individual championships, 5 individual reserve championships, 9 championships in "pens" and 6 reserve championships in "pens" completed a successful breeding season.

To give you an photo impression of the rams we use click following link to our rams
To give you an photo impression of our top ewes use click following link to our ewes

If you want to visit our farm, or want more information, don't hesitate contacting us!

e-mail:  vanakenetten@planet.nl        

telephone: 0031 (0) 315 323 323  (Martin)     
                 0031 (0) 315 329 376  (Ronald)

mobile: 0031 (0) 651 713 669  

address: Oude IJsselweg 18/18a, 7075 DL,  Etten, the Netherlands