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The Boreray, also known as the Boreray Blackface or Hebridean Blackface, [3] is a breed of sheep originating on the St Kilda archipelago off the west coast of Scotland and surviving as a feral animal on one of the islands, Boreray. The breed was once reared for meat and wool, but is now used mainly for conservation grazing.
[1] [2] [3] The American staghound developed as a distinctive variety of dog from crossings of various breeds of sighthound found in America at the time, principally the British Greyhound, Scottish Deerhound and Irish Wolfhound, and the Russian Borzoi.
[2]: 5 A few breeds of sheep, such as the Castlemilk Moorit from Scotland, were formed through crossbreeding with wild European mouflon. [3] The urial (O. vignei) was once thought to have been a forebear of domestic sheep, as they occasionally interbreed with mouflon in the Iranian part of their range.
North Country Cheviot is a common breed of sheep raised mainly for meat production. Originated from Scotland. ... Another hill breed was introduced into the ranges of ...
Wolves were hunted in both Czarist and Soviet Russia with borzoi by landowners and Cossacks. [7] Covers were drawn by sending mounted men through a wood with a number of dogs of various breeds, [8] including deerhounds, staghounds and Siberian wolfhounds, as well as smaller greyhounds and foxhounds, [2] as they made more noise than borzoi. [8]
Cattle feedlot in Colorado, United States. Animal husbandry is the branch of agriculture concerned with animals that are raised for meat, fibre, milk, or other products.It includes day-to-day care, management, production, nutrition, selective breeding, and the raising of livestock.
After the fall of the West Roman Empire, the name Lusitania continued to be used for administrative purposes but in the 9th century CE the name Portugal (a place name that started to be used in the territories north of the Douro river in south Gallaecia) started to be applied to the name of a county, the County of Portucale, and then, after ...
Scottish primitive, Scottish landrace, old Scottish, or old Scotch goat Welsh primitive, Welsh landrace, or old Welsh goat Their characteristics were similar enough to classify them together, though some sources have treated them separately, such as the UN Food and Agriculture Organization , which considers some of these strains extinct.