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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 breed is well known for its wool, but also for its meat, both lamb and mutton. It has been described as a dual-purpose breed, with superior wool and near-mutton breed characteristics. This breed was also used for the development of the "Barbado" or American Blackbelly sheep, which was crossed with Barbados Blackbelly and mouflon for their ...
Desilva, Udaya; Fitch, Jerry (1995), "Campanian Barbary", Breeds of Livestock, Oklahoma State UniversityDept. of Animal Science, retrieved 17 June2010. Saskatchewan Sheep Development Board (2007), "Canadian Arcott", Sheep Breeds, Government of Saskatchewan, archived from the originalon 7 August 2011, retrieved 17 June2010.
Vermont became the toast of the nation's agricultural community. By 1830 merino sheep had become the state's principal livestock. A few statistics tell the story. Merino sheep were more productive than other breeds—a secret well-known to the Spanish, and the reason why the Spanish guarded their flocks so closely.
This is a list of sheep breeds usually considered to originate in Canada and the United States. [1] [2] ... American Merino: FAO (2007): no data [4]: 126 ...
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.
Domestication of the sheep. " Valach " from Brumov in Moravian Wallachia, 1787. Shepherding was a traditional occupation of Romanians, and as they colonised the northern Carpathian range and eventually assimilated, their exonym "Valach" became synonymous with "shepherd". The history of the domestic sheep goes back to between 11,000 and 9,000 ...
Corriedale sheep on a ranch in Charlo, Mission Valley, Montana. The Corriedale was developed in the latter part of the nineteenth century by cross-breeding Merino and Lincoln Longwool sheep, [5] with the aim of producing sheep with grazing requirements intermediate between the lush lowlands which suited the British breeds and the sparse dry grazing preferred by the Merino.