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Two-horned rams typically have horizontal double-curled horns. Four-horned rams have two vertical centre horns which may be 61 cm (2 ft) or more in length, and two smaller side horns, which grow down along the sides of the head. The horns on the ewe are smaller in diameter, shorter in length and appear more delicate than those of the ram. [26]
One example of a polycerate Shetland sheep was a ram kept by US President Thomas Jefferson for several years in the early 19th century in front of the White House. In the spring of 1808 this ram attacked several people who had taken shortcuts across the square, injuring some and actually killing a small boy. [ 4 ]
The Shetland type of the Dunface has been regarded as distinct since the early nineteenth century or before. [4] Patterns of flock distribution in the period 1795-1965 reveal the numeric decline of Shetland sheep and their eventual confinement to Shetland. By 1965 only 4% of the sheep recorded for Hill Sheep Subsidy were Shetland sheep. [6]
The Manx Loaghtan is one of the Northern European short-tailed sheep breeds, and descends from the primitive sheep once found throughout Scotland, the Hebrides, and Shetland Islands. The word Loaghtan comes from the Manx words lugh dhoan , which mean mouse-brown and describe the colour of the sheep. [ 3 ]
Desilva, Udaya; Fitch, Jerry (1995), "Altay", Breeds of Livestock, Oklahoma State University, Dept. of Animal Science, archived from the original on 4 November 2008 DAD-IS (2009), "Altay Fat-Rumped/China" , Domestic Animal Diversity Information System , Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations , retrieved 11 May 2009
The Navajo-Churro, or Churro for short, [3] (also American or Navajo Four-Horned) is a breed of domestic sheep originating with the Spanish Churra sheep obtained by the Diné around the 16th century during the Spanish Conquest. [4] Its wool consists of a protective topcoat and soft undercoat.
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A group of three Hebridean sheep rams from the Weatherwax Flock. The sheep kept throughout Britain up to the Iron Age were small, short-tailed, and varied in colour. These survived into the 19th century in the Highlands and Islands as the Scottish Dunface, which had various local varieties, most of which are now extinct (some do survive, such as the Shetland and North Ronaldsay).