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Rambouillet
Blackish yellow
Fine wool breed: good for spinning and rugs
Males have horns ewes are polled
tall and about 300lbs. |
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Cheviot
About 150-200lbs.
ears are straight up, no wool on face or legs
Main use for meat and wool for mattress. |
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Hampshire
Black face and legs with a wool cap
350lbs.
meat sheep
wool used for stuffing
polled |
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Suffolk
No hair on face or legs (both black)
350-400lbs.
meat and polled |
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Cotswold
Long curly wool 8-10inches long.
Wool will go to nostrils
black nose and white face
250lbs |
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Lincoln
350lbs.
long curls up to 15inches
long face and blue skin on ears
black grey and white |
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Romney
From England
wool is easy to spin
350lbs.
hooves are resitant to hoof rot
small wool cap on face
can produce 12-15lbs. of wool |
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French Alpine
dairy goat (high production of milk 3.5%)
ears up
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Nubian
dairy goat 4.6% and used for meat
droopy ears and round nose
from africa |
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Toggenburg
dairy 3% and popular
from Switerland
chocolate color and white striped face
polled |
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Angora goat
Mohair breed
hair used fro rugs
long poofy anf horned with droopy ears
from Turkey
100-150lbs. |
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Chester White
USA
White color and short snout with droopy ears
meat |
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Duroc
Red color, short and flipped ear
meat |
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Hampshire
Meat (bacon)
Pointy ears and oreo color
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American Yorkshire
Largest ,eat
short snout, ppointy ears, pinkish white |
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American Landrace
Very floppy ears,pearly white, long snout
large breed
meat |
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Tamworth
Long nose, high forehead, pointy ears
Red color and large
meat |
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Dorset Sheep
Wool like side burns |
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Berkshire
White stripe down face |
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