Wester Gladstone Hebridean Sheep

Welcome to Wester Gladstone, home of Scotland's primitive four-horned Hebridean Sheep. We also run a small flock of Soays and now Shetlands and also breed Scots Grey hens. We grow fruit and vegetables and are trying to make our holding as environmentally sustainable and wildlife friendly as possible.

At Wester Gladstone, we specialise in breeding Hebridean Sheep with the very rare original characteristics of the breed. If you want to see multi horned, scurred, polled and topknotted Hebrideans, this is the place to come. See what you can spot in the pen below. The tup is Gladstone Laughing Boy, a regular at the Royal Highland Show for the last few years. In 2009, he even caught the attention of the Queen.

Royal Highland Show 2010 - see separate page for photos.

Gladstone Robin of Loxley pictured just before setting off to the show where he gained a 3rd place in the Senior Tup class and won the Gladstone Trophy for best 4 Horned Hebridean Sheep.

Some of our breeding ewes

This pen of ewes illustrates some of the diversity to be found in the Gladstone flock of Hebridean Sheep. As well as the different fleece types, you will also see examples of polled and topknotted sheep amongst the various 4 horned examples.

A rather unusually marked Soay

Backforest Gladstone. He proved that he's got what it takes as a tup lamb and is looking forward to the next tupping season. Meanwhile he more than holds his own in amongst the other tups.

An old man and his sheep

Osgoodby Jezebel, a 14 year old ewe due to lamb any moment, graciously accepts yet another digestive biscuit.
Update. Jezebel gave birth to a 4 horned ewe lamb, Gladstone Caitin Jezebel. Mother and lamb are doing well.

The Black Mount

Looking to the East we have a splendid view of the Black Mount. As you can just see, we have a public road running through the holding. The tups, some of which are in the picture, stay safely away from our ewes which are on this side of the road.

We get snow here too

We get long winters here. Snow and grey skies are all too familiar. Of course when it's like this the power tends to go off for days at a time, just to add to the fun. You see why we need our Land Rovers.