Texel sheep facts A young male Texel lamb has sold at a livestock market in Scotland for £231,000, breaking the world record for sheep sales. 28 August 2009 • 7:00pm ...

The heavily muscled sheep originates from the island of Texel in the Netherlands. The previous record for a sheep sale was just over 230,000 pounds in 2009, according to the BBC.

Texel stud breeders Alistair and Karen McLeod sold their grazing block in Central Otago to move to the Maniototo to continue their dream of breeding a better sheep.

A Texel lamb has become the world's most expensive sheep after being sold for almost £368,000 at an auction in Scotland. The six-month-old Texel ram was sold in Lanark by breeder Charlie Boden to ...

Scottish breeding was to the fore in the sheep lines as an Aberdeenshire-bred Texel ram went on to claim the MV inter-breed Great Yorkshire show championship before being tapped out as supreme sheep ...