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New Forest and Hampshire Show Results 2002

First Prize Shearling Ram
First Prize Ram Lamb
First Prize Ewe Lamb
First Prize Group of Three
Reserve Champion Ewe Lamb

Kent County Show Results 2002

First Prize Untrimmed Ewe Lamb
First Prize Shearling Ewe
Breed Champion Shearling Ewe
Group Interbreed Champion
Supreme Interbreed Champion - Shearling Ewe

East of England Show Results 2002

First Prize Shearling Ram
First Prize Shearling Ewe
First Prize Pair of Untrimmed Ram Lambs
First Prize Wool on the Hoof Competition
Reserve Champion Shearling Ewe

Champion Shearling Ewe

Kent County Show Supreme Champion

Newspaper Article in the Mid Sussex Times, 10 January 2002

Fertile Eunice the ewe has produced her farm's first set of pedigree quads.

Lambs Amy, Joe, Meg and Bert weighed in at about five pounds each on Sunday at Bush Farm, North Chailey.

The cuddly pedigree Suffolks are being fed partly by bottle and partly from mum as they get used to the world.

Farmer Cees Kniestedt has won many awards at the annual South of England show at Ardingly.

But the quads brought him special delight after a bountiful year of births in his cherished flock.

Cees said: "The breed averages 1.6 or 1.7 lambs, but in the past year we have had seven lots of triplets and now these quads, which is tremendous.

"We will have to give Eunice a hand feeding them, because four lambs is a bit much for her.

"We had Eunice scanned so we were always aware that there were likely to be four, but when you see the scan all you see really is lots of heads and legs and you don't know for sure.

"The lamber saw three born and thought that's it, walked away to get some milk and things, returned, and there was number four".

The ewe's news will be of interest to pupils at Oathall Community College, where Cees has been involved in its work on the college's own successful farm.

Newspaper Article in the Mid Sussex Times, 11 January 2001

Winter might be the wettest on record, it still gets dark at 4.30pm, but the Middy has proof positive spring has sprung.

Pictured here Sarah Caddy (16) and farm manager Howard Wood's daughter, Olivia (five) with the season's first lambs born to a ewe at Oathall Community College Farm on New Year's Eve.

The twins have been named Olivia and John (after Olivia's friend John Edwards, of Hassocks).

Their arrival looks set to herald a spate of early spring arrivals to 15 pedigree Suffolk ewes. Dad is a top award-winning ram, (naturally).

His fruitful conquests have been sponsored by local businessman and Suffolk sheep breeder Cees Kniestedt of Bush Farm, Chailey.

Mr Wood said: "Our students mount a 24-hour lambwatch at this time of year and again in March when our other 20 ewes give birth".

The lambs can expect to be viewed by hundreds of visitors to the farm this spring.

Prizes won during 2000

Reserve Champion Suffolk - South of England Show (all Suffolk lamb classes were won by the Bushleigh flock)
Kent County Hobbs Parker Perpetual Challenge Trophy for Wool on the Hoof
Kent County Perpetual Challenge Trophy for Champion Overall Sheep Exhibit
Champion Highfield Lamb Carcase Cup - South Eastern Prime Stock Winter Fayre (the lamb carcase was sold and the money donated to local charity)
Winner - Southern Suffolk Sheep Breeders Flock Competition (for the second year running)
Suffolk Breed Champion - Surrey County Show
Reserve Breed Champion - Cranleigh Show
Reserve Champion - Edenbridge & Oxted Show
First Prize Ram Lamb - Dolphin Fair