Australian Texel Stud Breeders Association Inc

About the Business

The Texel is a well developed, evenly proportioned, heavily muscled, lean sheep.

The wool is well defined, good staple, approximately 100mm at 12 months, low 30’s micron, good lock, showing little colour, reasonably good to bulky density.
Uses of the breed in Australia:

Terminal Sire – The purebred Texel ram can be mated to either first cross or other traditional ewes to produce lambs destined for slaughter or the live lamb trade.

First Cross Ewe Sire – Texel cross ewes will have a heavy cut of bulky wool, with high lambing percentages. When rejoined to Texel sires they will produce a heavy muscled, leaner and higher yielding carcase.

Infusion – Some British and Australian breeds of meat sheep have decided to infuse Texel genes to increase muscling and leanness.