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  2. Baa, Baa, Black Sheep - Wikipedia

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    "Baa, Baa, Black Sheep" is an English nursery rhyme, the earliest printed version of which dates from around 1744. The words have barely changed in two and a half centuries. The words have barely changed in two and a half centuries.

  3. Aq Qoyunlu - Wikipedia

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    The name Aq Qoyunlu, literally meaning "those with white sheep", [23] is first mentioned in late 14th century sources. It has been suggested that this name refers to old totemic symbols, but according to Rashid al-Din Hamadani, the Turks were forbidden to eat the flesh of their totem-animals, and so this is unlikely given the importance of mutton in the diet of pastoral nomads.

  4. Black sheep - Wikipedia

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    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]

  5. Qara Qoyunlu - Wikipedia

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    The Qara Qoyunlu or Kara Koyunlu (Azerbaijani: Qaraqoyunlular, قاراقویونلولار‎; Persian: قره قویونلو), also known as the Black Sheep Turkomans, were a culturally Persianate, Muslim Turkoman [8] [9] [10] monarchy that ruled over the territory comprising present-day Azerbaijan, Armenia, northwestern Iran, eastern Turkey, and northeastern Iraq from about 1374 to 1468.

  6. Baa Baa, Black Sheep (short story) - Wikipedia

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    Baa Baa, Black Sheep" is a semi-autobiographical short story by Rudyard Kipling, published in 1888. [ 1 ] The story deals with the unkind treatment that Kipling received between the ages of 6 and 11 in a foster home in Southsea .

  7. Zwartbles - Wikipedia

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    The Zwartbles has a striking appearance: a black/brown fleece, a white blaze on the face, 2 - 4 white socks, and a white tail tip (which is traditionally left undocked). Both rams and ewes are polled. The Zwartbles are relatively large sheep: ewes weigh an average of 85 kg (187 lb), and rams 100 kg (220 lb).

  8. Beulah Speckled Face - Wikipedia

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    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]

  9. Leccese - Wikipedia

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    The wool is normally white and the skin flesh-coloured with darker mottlings. In a small proportion of animals the wool is entirely black, and the skin is also black; these black-skinned sheep are resistant to the effects of the poisonous Hypericum crispum , common in the Salento, which in the white-woolled, pale-skinned sheep causes ...