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The Cheviot is a distinctive white-faced sheep, with a wool-free face and legs, pricked ears, black muzzle and black feet. It is a very alert and active sheep. Cheviot wool has a distinctive helical crimp, which gives it that highly desirable resilience. [1] The fleece should be dense and firm with no kemp or coloured hair. The rams can have ...
The Border Leicester is a British breed of sheep. [3] It is a polled, long-wool sheep and is considered a dual-purpose breed as it is reared both for meat and for wool. It is known for its distinctive upright ears. [4] The sheep are large but docile. They have been exported to other sheep-producing regions, including Australia and the United ...
A chullo (Spanish pronunciation:, from Quechua: ch'ullu; [1] known as lluch'u in Aymara) is an Andean style of hat with earflaps, made from vicuña, alpaca, llama or sheep's wool. [2] Alpaca fleece has wool-like qualities that help to insulate chullo-wearers from the harsh conditions in the Andean mountain region. Chullos often have ear-flaps ...
A black fleece is caused by a recessive gene, [4] so if a white ram and a white ewe are each heterozygous for black, about one in four of their lambs will be black. In most white sheep breeds, only a few white sheep are heterozygous for black, so black lambs are usually much rarer than this. [5]
The Beulah Speckled Face is a medium-sized breed although it is fairly large for a hill sheep. The face is free of wool and is white speckled with black, with a black muzzle, black around the eyes and around the ears. Neither ewes nor rams have horns and the legs are also black and white. [3]
Peruvian or Bolivian hat with ear-flaps made from vicuña wool, alpaca, llama or sheep's wool. [32] Chupalla: A straw hat made in Chile. Cloche hat: A bell-shaped woman's' hat that was popular during the Roaring Twenties. Coal scuttle bonnet: A woman's bonnet with stiffened brim and a flat back (crown). Conical Asian hat
In general, the fleece is light, soft, springy and open, with little lanolin (grease); [39] there may be some kemp. [40] In some sheep (particularly British Jacobs, which have denser fleeces), the black wool grows longer or shorter than the white wool. This is called "quilted fleece", and is an undesirable trait. [41]
Bell sheep – a sheep (usually a rough, wrinkly one) caught by a shearer, just before the end of a shearing run. [1] Bellwether – originally an experienced wether given a bell to lead a flock; now mainly used figuratively for a person acting as a lead and guide. Black wool – Any wool that is not white, but not necessarily black.