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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 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.
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 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]
An estimated 50% of the sheep on the US western ranges are of Rambouillet blood. [4] Rambouillet stud has also had an enormous influence on the development of the Australian Merino industry through Emperor and the Peppin Merino stud.
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]
Greenfield Village has stepped up security after a "wild coyote" attacked and killed a merino wool sheep in the working farms district of the historic Dearborn venue. The mauled animal was found ...
In 2022, an exhausted lost sheep was found on Mount Alexander in Victoria. Named Alex after the mountain on which he was found, the weight of the wool had created critical health problems for him as it had for Chris. Alex was carrying 40 kgs of unshorn wool, only slightly less than Chris.