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The Blackface or Scottish Blackface is a British breed of sheep. It is the most common sheep breed of the United Kingdom. It is the most common sheep breed of the United Kingdom. Despite the name, it did not originate in Scotland, but south of the border.
The Soay Sheep has prehistoric origins, [citation needed] and the Galloway breed of beef cattle dates back several hundred years. New breeds have also been developed more recently in Scotland, such as the Scottish Fold cat, which dates from 1961. [2] The North Ronaldsay Sheep is a most unusual breed, subsisting largely on a diet of seaweed. [3]
The Highland Cattle Club of Finland was founded in 1997. Their studbooks show importation of Highland cattle breeding stock to Finland, dating back to 1884. The Finnish club states that in 2016, there were 13 000 Highland cattle in Finland. [18]
A group of three Hebridean sheep rams from the Weatherwax Flock. The sheep kept throughout Britain up to the Iron Age were small, short-tailed, and varied in colour. These survived into the 19th century in the Highlands and Islands as the Scottish Dunface, which had various local varieties, most of which are now extinct (some do survive, such as the Shetland and North Ronaldsay).
The Dunface sheep kept as domestic livestock in the St Kilda archipelago were mixed to some extent with Scottish Blackface sheep in the late 19th century, and survive as the Boreray (the other sheep of St Kilda is the feral Soay, which is a survivor of an even earlier short-tailed type of sheep and is not derived from the Dunface).
Pages in category "Sheep breeds originating in Scotland" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.
The Welsh Mountain sheep is a dual-purpose breed and is the foundation of the Welsh sheep industry. [2] In the Middle Ages these sheep were predominantly kept for their wool and milk, but by the nineteenth century they had become renowned in England for their tasty meat and Queen Victoria is reported to have demanded Welsh lamb at the royal ...
It is documented as far back as the fifteenth century, but the present German name was not used before 1884; the breed standard dates from 1962. In the past there was some cross-breeding with imported sheep: in the nineteenth century with Bergamasca and Cotswold stock, [4]: 940 and in the twentieth century with the Southdown. [3]: 280