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Sheep breeds Flashcards

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Hebridean: distinguishing features & purpose

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All black
Hills

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North country cheviot: distinguishing features & purpose

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Roman nose, white face
Hill, crossbred females

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Scotish blackface: distinguishing features & purpose

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Head & legs with black spots
Hill, crossbred females

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South country cheviot: distinguishing features & purpose

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Non-roman nose, white face
Hill, crossbred females

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Swaledale: distinguishing features & purpose

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Black face, wooly
Hill, crossbred females

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Blueface leicester: distinguishing features & purpose

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Cream wool, dark ears
crossbred to produce mules

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Border leicester: distinguishing features & purpose

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Bunny ears
crossbred to produce halfbreds

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Jacob: distinguishing features & purpose

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Black and white spots
Wool prized

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Oxford down: distinguishing features & purpose

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Black face, very poofy wool
terminal sire for prime lambs

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Shetland: distinguishing features & purpose

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Different colors
Form basis of the wool industry

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Suffolk: distinguishing features & purpose

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Black face and legs, wool is white
terminal sire for high quality lambs

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Wensleydale: distinguishing features & purpose

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Crimped fur
produce commercial ewes

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Scottish mule: crossing

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Blackface ewe x bluefaced leicester

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Scottish greyface: crossing

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Blackface ewes x border leicester

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Cheviot mule: crossing

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Cheviot ewes x bluefaced leicester

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Scottish halfbred: crossing

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Cheviot ewe x border leicester

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Texel: distinguishing features & purpose

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Body is white, short legs
Meat sheep

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Charollais: distinguishing features & purpose

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Broad flat forehead, short wool
Good milk yield

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Beltex: distinguishing features & purpose

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Double muscled hind quarters
Meat sheep

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