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Border Leicester rams are used for mating with Merino ewes to breed the first-cross mothers that are so valuable for the production of prime lambs. Border Leicester Merino cross ewes produced in this way offer the greatest overall performance when breeding meat type sheep, with a well proportioned carcase, high fertility, good foraging ability ...
Leicester Longwool sheep date back to the 1700s, and were found in the Midland counties of England, originally developed in Dishley Grange, Leicestershire, [3] by Robert Bakewell. Bakewell was the foremost exponent of modern animal-breeding techniques in the selection of livestock .
Pages in category "Sheep breeds originating in England" ... Bluefaced Leicester; Border Cheviot; Border Leicester; British Milksheep; C. Cheviot sheep; Clun Forest sheep;
The Gromark is a prime sheep fixed at approximately 69 percent Corriedale and 50 percent Border Leicester genetics. It is polled (does not have horns), has a white open face, clean legs. The long white wool fleece weighs 4-7 kilos, is about 130 mm long and averages about 30 microns [1] in fibre diameter. [2]
Four breeds of sheep, in the illustrated encyclopedia Meyers Konversationslexikon. This is a list of breeds of domestic sheep. Domestic sheep (Ovis aries) are partially derived from mouflon (Ovis gmelini) stock, and have diverged sufficiently to be considered a different species. Some sheep breeds have a hair coat and are known as haired sheep.
A ram Ewes at the Masham Sheep Fair in 2010. The Bluefaced Leicester is a British breed of longwool sheep.It originated in north-east England in the late nineteenth or early twentieth century, and derives from the white-faced Border Leicester, with some influence from the blue-coloured Wensleydale and possibly also from the Teeswater.
The tall sheep resemble the Border Leicester body shape but not the head or face Breed the short sheep resemble the Welsh Mountain Sheep. There were sheep with clean faces (98%) versus sheep with some wool covering on the face (2%) and over the poll. while wool face may have a resemblance to the Dorset, Portland sheep or other breeds.
The Coopworth is a modern New Zealand breed of sheep.It was developed by researchers at Lincoln College in the Canterbury region of the South Island between about 1956 and 1968, the result of cross-breeding of New Zealand Romney ewes and Border Leicester rams.