By Marylyn Stevens
Everything in a living being is centred on reproduction.  There are living beings on earth today because other beings have reproduced with desperate eagerness for two thousand million years or more.
In the simplest sense the term “breeding” means no more than just reproducing, as a result of a sexual union between two living things of a kind.  This is what goes on in the wild, with the environment as the only controlling factor.  In this way nature does only a limited amount of selecting because it is only concerned with reproducing and survival of the fittest.

Story told by Frank Badcock

Fairbank Southdowns started in 1922 you might say as a result of an accident. My father Vern, at the time a young teenager was kicked in the head by a horse and as a result had a plate inserted in his forehead. Advised not to play sport his father suggested a sheep stud. He himself was already a successful breeder of English Leicesters as was his father before him.