Herdwick Tup News Today

New centre records have been set at two Herdwick sales hosted by Harrison & Hetherington at its Broughton-in-Furness centre last week.

The green landscape is only broken by the magnificent sight of the Herdwick tups in their pens. Side by side they stand in full bloom, striking in their familiar brick-red chalky ‘reddell’ fleeces, a long-standing Herdwick tradition that leaves a russet band that has blended into the fleece. The red colour marks the rams out from the ewes I was told when attending my first-ever annual Keswick Tup Fair, some years ago. Hundreds of years ago shepherds chose this colour because it was th...