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The Armant is named after the town of Armant, Egypt, the supposed place of origin of the breed. [3] It is also called the Hawara dog, after the Hawwara tribal confederation who used them with their livestock. [1] The breed is now endangered due to crossbreeding with other dog breeds.
A sheep dog or sheepdog is generally a dog or breed of dogs historically used in connection with the raising of sheep. These include livestock guardian dogs used to guard sheep and other livestock and herding dogs used to move, manage and control sheep and other livestock.
The breed was thought to have died out in the 1920s. A herd was discovered and bought in 1979 by Margam Country Park and remain there today [15] Vaynol cattle: 1872 [16] Vaynol Park, near Bangor [16] One of the rarest cattle breeds in the UK. RBST owns most of the breed and monitors their status [16] Pembroke cattle "Coal Black" in colour [17 ...
As sheep farming developed into an annual trek or transhumance from mountain grasslands of Abruzzo and Molise (and other parts of central Italy) south to lower pasture land in Puglia, where sheep were over-wintered [citation needed], the dogs came to play a central role in the centuries-old migration, an annual event vital to Abruzzese culture ...
There are over 300 breeds of dogs in the world, but many are probably unrecognizable to the average dog owner. This list of the 15 rare and lesser-known dog breeds will help you pick a best friend ...
The Old English Sheepdog is a large breed of dog that emerged in England from early types of herding dog. Other names for the breed include Shepherd's Dog and bob-tailed sheep-dog. [1] The nickname Bob-tail (or Bobtail) originates from how dogs of the breed traditionally had their tails docked.
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.
The Schapendoes descends from a general type of farm and herding dog popular in the Drenthe province of the Netherlands, and the Veluwe, an area of forests and swampland. ("does" is a local dialect meaning "swamp" see e.g. the town of Doesburg) The dogs there had many names, and were not a specific breed as we use the term today. They were the ...