Ready, steady, go!; Suffolk Young Breeder Club formed.(Farming Life)

From: The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland) | Date: July 12, 2003 | Copyright information

MARK Priestly, of Downpatrick, Co Down, was just four of age when he first decided he wanted his own Suffolk sheep.

It wasn't something his parents, were particularly enthusiastic about, but the dream stuck and, having managed to acquire his own commercial sheep, Mum, Amanda takes up the story.

"Mark arrived home from school one day, when he was about eight years old and said to his father that he wanted him to sell his commercial ewes, so that he could start his own Suffolk flock," he said.

Eventually the ...

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