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The British Milksheep originally was known as the Alderbred and is a breed of domesticated sheep developed by Lawrence Alderson and his wife Mary in Wiltshire and Northumberland. It was exported to several countries including Hungary, France and Greece, and from there other neighbouring countries.
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.
The Easycare or Easy Care is a modern British breed of easy-care sheep.It was developed in Wales in the second half of the twentieth century by cross-breeding between Welsh Mountain and Wiltshire Horn stock, with the aim of combining the meat-producing qualities and natural moulting characteristic of the latter with the hardiness of the former.
It is a large heavy sheep, somewhat stockier and shorter in the leg than some other British longwool breeds; rams usually weigh some 115–135 kg, ewes about 85–110 kg. [4]: 796 [7]: 122 Like the breeds from which it derives, it is polled (hornless). The wool is long and forms curls or ringlets, covering the head and legs as well as the body.
Pages in category "Sheep breeds originating in England" The following 38 pages are in this category, out of 38 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
British Milk Sheep (UK) Chios (Greece) Awassi (Syria) Assaf (Israel) Zwartbles (Friesland, Netherlands) In the U.S., the most common dairy breeds are the East Friesian and the Lacaune. [1] Meat or wool breeds do not produce as much milk as dairy breeds, but may produce enough for small amounts of cheese and other products.
A Wensleydale in full fleece Wool of an adult Wensleydale A six-day-old black Wensleydale lamb resting.. The Wensleydale is a British breed of domestic sheep. [1] [2] It is named for the Wensleydale region of North Yorkshire, in the north of England, where it was bred in the early nineteenth century by cross-breeding a Dishley Leicester ram with local long-woolled sheep of a breed that is now ...
The Southdown is a British breed of domestic sheep, [6]: 918 [2] the smallest of the British breeds. [ 7 ] : 23 It is a shortwool breed, and the basis of the whole Down group of breeds. It was originally bred by John Ellman of Glynde , near Lewes in East Sussex , in about 1800.