Performance recording key for North Yorkshire-based Hampshire Down breeders

The Stainthorpe family are focused on figures to help drive their pedigree Hampshire Down flock forward, while producing the best example of the breed

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Left to right: Becky, Louis and Lottie Stainthorpe.
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Left to right: Becky, Louis and Lottie Stainthorpe.

Set back on the North Yorkshire coast, overlooking the seaside town of Whitby is Mortar Pit Farm, home to Louis and Becky Stainthorpe and their two children Finley, 16, and Lottie 14. After several...

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