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The Katahdin is a modern American breed of sheep. It is an easy-care sheep: it grows a hair coat with little wool which moults naturally in the spring, and so does not need to be shorn. It is reared for meat only. It was developed by a breeder named Michael Piel in Maine, and is named for Mount Katahdin in that state.
Meat, wool Boreray sheep: Scotland Meat, wool Bovec sheep: Bovška Ovca, Plezzana, Trentarka, Krainer Steinschaf Italy Meat, milk Braunes Bergschaf: Brown Mountain sheep [25] Germany [25] Meat, vegetation management [26] Brazilian Somali: Berbera Blackhead [27] Somalia [27] Meat [28] Brianzola: Italy Meat British Milksheep: United Kingdom [29 ...
Now nearing her 18th birthday, the Katahdin sheep will be the oldest of her kind to compete at the fair this week. Maisey grew up on the Neilson family farm, Justifiable Acres Ranch in Woodbine ...
This is a list of sheep breeds usually considered to originate in Canada and the United States. [1] [2] Some may have complex or obscure histories, so inclusion here does not necessarily imply that a breed is predominantly or exclusively from those countries.
May 20—CHARLESTOWN — Dean Bascom says tending to his 144 Katahdin sheep is taxing work, requiring him to regularly move temporary fencing that surrounds the flock as it drifts between ...
Wool from sheep that graze at the King’s charitable foundation has been used to make a clothes collection inspired by nature and Queen Victoria’s watercolours.
B. Badger Face Welsh Mountain sheep; Bagnolese; Balkhi sheep; Baluchi sheep; Balwen Welsh Mountain sheep; Barbados Black Belly; Barbaresca; Bardoka; Basco-Béarnaise
The Polypay sheep breed is a white, medium-sized (65 kg), polled sheep which was developed in the 1960s at the U.S. Sheep Experiment Station in Dubois, Idaho. [1] In general, Polypay sheep are noted for being a highly prolific maternal dual-purpose (meat and wool) breed. It produces yearly about 4.2 kg of wool and is weaned at 120 days. [2] [3]