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Full wool Merino sheep Merino sheep and red goats. Madrid, Spain. The Merino is a breed or group of breeds of domestic sheep, characterised by very fine soft wool.It was established in Spain near the end of the Middle Ages, and was for several centuries kept as a strict Spanish monopoly; exports of the breed were not allowed, and those who tried risked capital punishment.
The Peppin Merino memorial at Wanganella, New South Wales. The Peppin Merino is a breed of Merino sheep raised for their wool, mostly in Australia. So important is the Peppin Merino that wool producers throughout Australia often classify their sheep simply as being either Peppin, or non-Peppin. [1] Peppin merino wool is in the 20 to 23 micron ...
The original strain bred by Macarthur survives as the Camden Park or Macarthur Merino. [7] The four principal breeds or strains that developed within the Australian Merino group were the Peppin, [8] the Saxon, [9] the South Australian [10] and the Spanish. [3]: 746 [11] The Poll Merino or Australian Poll Merino is a recently-created polled variant.
These sheep are early maturing, large framed and relatively plain bodied, producing a fleece which is soft handling and of good colour thus retaining the attributes of the Merino. Polled Merinos are now found in the various strains of Merinos. [1] A single gene with three possible alleles controls horn inheritance in Australian Merinos. [2]
The South African Meat Merino or SAMM is a wool and meat sheep originating in South Africa, but now found throughout the world.. The SAMM is derived from the German Merinofleischschaf animals imported into South Africa from Europe in 1932, to improve the quality of wool and meat from sheep in South Africa. [1]
[citation needed] The flock was raised exclusively at the Bergerie, with no sheep being sold for years, [1]: 44–46 well into the 19th century. [ citation needed ] Outcrossing with English long- wool breeds and selection produced a well-defined breed, [ 2 ] differing in several important points from the original Spanish Merino.
Champion Delaine Merino ram, two years old. The Delaine Merino is a type of Merino sheep predominant in North America. It has fewer skin wrinkles than some types of Merino, but still has a fine, oily fleece that extends through the legs. They are hardy and long–lived, with an ability to thrive on the arid ranges of the Southwest United States ...
The Merinizzata Italiana is a modern Italian breed of dual-purpose sheep from southern Italy. [1]: 246 [2] It was created in the twentieth century by cross-breeding local Italian stock with imported Merino breeds from France and Germany. It is reared in central and southern Italy, principally in Abruzzo.