Sheep Breeds

Question 1

Wool
Wool over eyes and ears
Pink nose
Longer back leg wool than front
Wrinkly neck

Answer 1

Merino

Question 2

Dual purpose
Erect ears
Rabbit looking face

Answer 2

Border Leicester

Question 3

Dual purpose (primarily for meat)
Wool grows onto muzzle
Round face with sharp slope to nose

Answer 3

Poll Dorset

Question 4

Dual purpose
Black skin (face and legs)

Answer 4

Suffolk

Question 5

Dual purpose
Head free of wool
Wool begin to grow behind ears
Grows to hocks

Answer 5

White Suffolk

Question 6

Meat
Large goat type horns

Answer 6

Wiltshire Horn

Question 7

Milk and meat
Sheds wool
Broader at hind than shoulders
Dark nose

Answer 7

Wiltipolls

Question 8

Dual purpose
No neck

Answer 8

Texel

Question 9

Meat production
Black head
White body

Answer 9

Dorper

Question 10

Meat production
Long body
Low set belly
C shaped head
Fat tail

Answer 10

White Dorper

Question 11

Wool
Large woolly sheep, wool to hooves
Wool over eyes

Answer 11

Corriedale

Question 12

Dual purpose
Wool to hocks on front legs
Wool to heels on back legs
Round wool patch on forehead

Answer 12

Dohne

Question 13

Dual purpose
White, well-wooded body & head, face clear from wool, wool on legs, docked tail
Polled

Answer 13

South African Meat Merino (SAMMs)

Question 14

Dual purpose (primarily wool)
Double coated

Answer 14

Drysdale

Question 15

Dual purpose
Goat head, sheep body

Answer 15

Awassi

Question 16

Meat
Looks like goats

Answer 16

Damara

Question 17

Meat shed wool

Answer 17

Australian White

Question 18

Diary
Pink eyes and nose
Pink skin

Answer 18

East Friesian