Situated in the historic town of Biggar, South Lanarkshire, in the Southern Uplands, Annavale are small hobby breeders of pedigree Shetland Sheep. 

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We have a small flock, mostly ewes, but with a carefully selected small number of rams, either purchased or retained for breeding purposes. All of our Shetlands are fully registered with the Shetland Sheep Society and the stock we sell will always be fully SSS registered. We always breed within the 1927 Breed Standard.

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Our small-holding of circa 12 acres is just half a mile outside Biggar, a town sitting between the Clyde and Tweed Rivers around 650ft above sea level. As well as our Shetland Sheep we breed Weimaraners, Gordon Setters and Border Terriers, and - along with Irish Setters and a Whippet - we have shown all of these breeds with tremendous success. 

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Shetland Sheep first came to Annavale in 2016, via Morven Macfarlane of the Stoneheap flock. Morven's breeding had been built on the well-respected Rench lines. Via Morven we were introduced to Moira Morrison and John Bogue of the Rigg Flock. From Rigg we purchased our senior ram, Rigg Apache, who produced tremendously well for us and was a brilliant first stock ram for the flock.

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The flock was established in 2016 with just white sheep, and it wasn't until the autumn of 2022 that some coloureds made their way into the flock - Blackford Hazel and Broadwath Dixie - two grey katmogets. The flock took an additional leap into the more coloured side of things in 2023 with three further grey kats, and two blacks, and at that stage it was decided to register a separate prefix for the coloureds.  As the "Biggar Burn" runs through Annavale, and all of our shape graze at the side of it, "Biggarburn" seemed a natural join-on to the "Annavale" flock name. 

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In 2024 the first of the Biggarburn flock were registered, and in their first season gave great account of themselves including numerous class wins at shows.  The sale of our first ever coloureds took place at Carlisle 2024, and couldn't have gone better! Biggarburn Axel was best lamb, best male, and reserve supreme champion (later selling privately), and Biggarburn Agatha reached one of the top prices of the day. 

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We hope you enjoy looking around our website, and learning more about our sheep!