Sheep Breeds

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Animal Breeds Flashcards on Sheep Breeds, created by Thora Siu on 21/01/2018.
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HEBRIDEAN (small size, black fleece/wool, short tail, long body, can have 2 or 4 horns)
BLACK WELSH MOUNTAIN (small, no wool on face & legs, males have horns)
KERRY HILL (white fleece, distinctive black markings around eyes, nose, and legs, do not have horns)
CHEVIOT HILL (fast maturing, strong, wool is firm & dense)
ROMNEY (large-framed, heavy and thick fleece, broad white face)
HERDWICK (Medium size, strong thick tail, grey fleece with white face)
SUFFOLK (black head and legs with white fleece, hornless)
SWALEDALE (dark upper head with grey/white muzzle, low set horns, grey or mottled legs, long and thick wooly tail)
ROUGH FELL (large size, curly horns, black head with white patch, and some black markings on legs)
RYELAND (medium size, heavily wooled face and legs, very soft wool)
SOAY (small & lean, no wool on face & legs, lighter markings around muzzle & eyes, chocolatey-coloured wool, rams grow thick mane)
NORTH RONALDSAY (small, fine-boned, rams are horned with with coarse hair under neck, coloured wool often grey & white but also black & brown)
CASTLEMILK MOORIT (long-legged with short tail, tightly grown light-tan fleece, ewes have wide-spreading horns, rams have spirals)
LLEYN (medium-sized, hornless, white face & head, no wool on ears or legs below hock, black nose and sometimes black spot on ear)
BADGER FACE WELSH MOUNTAIN (black stripe above eyes and running from chin to tail, white/grey/or light brown fleece)
BEULAH SPECKLED FACE (big, hornless, speckled face & legs with no wool, long head, erect ears pointing forward)
LLANWENOG (black-faced, hornless, tuft of wool on forehead, short thin ears, white fleece)
WENSLEYDALE (long-wool sheep with distinct blue head & ears)
LONK (largest British hill breeds, both sexes horned, black and white face & legs without wool)
MANX LOAGHTAN (small, brown coloured although born black, multi-horned usually 4 but sometimes 6)
COTSWOLD (large, longwool, no wool on white face but definite forelock, dark skin on nose, hornless, lustrous white wool)
PORTLAND (small, tan face & legs without wool, long tail, light coloured horns, lamb's wool is foxy red)
SOUTHDOWN (small ears, covered in wool, face and legs also covered in wool, nostrils should find black 'star')
DEVON & CORNWALL LONGWOOL (white faced with black nostrils, hornless, head & legs covered in wool)
GREYFACE DARTMOOR (longwool, face is spotted or mottled and fringed with wool, fleece is long and curly)
EXMOOR HORN (horned with white face and white fleece of medium length)
WELSH MOUNTAIN (white or tan face, rams usually horned, legs without wool, fleece is strong and bulky)
SCOTTISH BLACKFACE (horned, black-face, white & black marking on legs, bulky fleece)
BLUEFACED LEICESTER (very tall, broad muzzle, distinct Roman nose)
BORDER LEICESTER (large, hornless, erect ears, Roman nose, wool does not cover head or legs below knee)
TEESWATER (large, hornless, grey/white face, dark brown markings around eyes and nose, woolly forelock, long curly fleece)
DALESBRED (black face with distinct white mark above each nostril, legs black & white, round low-set horns, no wool on face or legs)
TEXEL (muscular, square hindquarters, short neck, no wool on legs & head, black nose, dense medium length white wool, badger-like face markings)
CHAROLLAIS (medium-large size, long and muscular, lightweight fleece, grey/pink head free from wool)
CLUN FOREST (hornless, dark brown face & legs, forelock of white wool and a little below knee and hock)
MASHAM (no horns, black & white face and legs, long lustrous fleece)
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