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Dorset on exhibition at Stampede Park, Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The Dorset Horn is an endangered British breed of domestic sheep. It is documented from the seventeenth century, and is highly prolific, sometimes producing two lambing seasons per year. Among British sheep, it is the only breed capable of breeding throughout the winter. [5]: 800
Dorper ram - South Africa Australian mob of white Dorpers. The Dorper is a South African breed of domestic sheep developed by crossing Dorset Horn and the Blackhead Persian sheep. The breed was created through the efforts of the South African Department of Agriculture to breed a meat sheep suitable to the more arid regions of the country. It is ...
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. Some sheep breeds have a hair coat and are known as haired sheep.
When dogs have a job like guarding or herding livestock, stress is not an issue. Dogs are too tired to be stressed. Since so many of us now keep dogs like Siberian Huskies and Border Collies as ...
the Dorset Down, a British sheep breed; the Dorset Horn, a British sheep breed; the Polish Modified Dorset, a Polish sheep breed developed at the University of Life Sciences in Poznań; the Poll Dorset, an Australian sheep breed derived from the Dorset Horn; the Polled Dorset, an American sheep breed derived from the Dorset Horn
The Polled Dorset is an American breed of domestic sheep. It is a polled (hornless) variant of the British Dorset Horn. It was developed at the North Carolina State University Small Ruminant Unit in the 1950s after a genetic mutation led to the birth of a polled ram. After some years of breeding work, a true-breeding polled strain was established.
Sheep breeds originating in Scotland (11 P) W. ... Dorset Horn; E. Easycare This page was last edited on 26 August 2020, at 23:02 (UTC) ...
The Poll Dorset, a short-wool, meat-producing sheep, was developed in Australia between 1937 and 1954 with the aim of breeding a true Dorset type sheep without horns. The poll gene was introduced into Dorset Horn flocks from two other polled breeds and following a strict back-mating programme achieved close to 100% of Dorset Horn blood.