The Boreray, also known as the Boreray Blackface or Hebridean Blackface, is a breed of sheep originating on the St Kilda archipelago off the west coast...
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Boreray may refer to: An island in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland: Boreray, North Uist Boreray, St Kilda A domesticated animal: Boreray sheep This disambiguation...
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horns. They were often formerly known as "St Kilda" sheep, although unlike Soay and Boreray sheep they are probably not in fact from the St Kilda archipelago...
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This is a list of breeds of domestic sheep. Domestic sheep (Ovis aries) are partially derived from mouflon (Ovis gmelini) stock, and have diverged sufficiently...
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the Boreray (from Boreray, another of the islands, and formerly also living on Hirta), and the "St Kilda", a former name for the Hebridean sheep (which...
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Whitebred Shorthorn Sheep Border Cheviot Boreray sheep Castlemilk Moorit Cheviot sheep Hebridean sheep North Country Cheviot North Ronaldsay sheep Scottish Blackface...
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Whitebred Shorthorn Sheep Border Cheviot Boreray sheep Castlemilk Moorit Cheviot sheep Hebridean sheep North Country Cheviot North Ronaldsay sheep Scottish Blackface...
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Whitebred Shorthorn Sheep Border Cheviot Boreray sheep Castlemilk Moorit Cheviot sheep Hebridean sheep North Country Cheviot North Ronaldsay sheep Scottish Blackface...
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Boreray (Scottish Gaelic: Boraraigh; Scots: Boreray) is an uninhabited island in the St Kilda archipelago in the North Atlantic. Boreray lies about 66...
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The Cheviot is a breed of white-faced sheep which gets its name from a range of hills in north Northumberland and the Scottish Borders. It is still common...
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The Shetland is a small, wool-producing breed of sheep originating in the Shetland Isles, Scotland, but is now also kept in many other parts of the world...
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The Jacob is a British breed of domestic sheep. It combines two characteristics unusual in sheep: it is piebald—dark-coloured with areas of white wool—and...
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List of Scottish breeds (section Sheep)
The North Ronaldsay Sheep is a most unusual breed, subsisting largely on a diet of seaweed. The Boreray was in 2012 the only sheep breed listed by the...
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Scottish Blackface (redirect from Scottish Blackface sheep)
The Blackface or Scottish Blackface is a British breed of sheep. It is the most common sheep breed of the United Kingdom. Despite the name, it did not...
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various colours including white and grey. Very rare. the Boreray – Survivors of the sheep kept by the crofters of the St Kilda archipelago off the west...
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The Suffolk is a British breed of domestic sheep. It originated in the late eighteenth century in the area of Bury St. Edmunds in Suffolk, as a result...
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Polycerate (section Sheep)
Hebridean, Icelandic, Jacob, Manx Loaghtan, Boreray and the Navajo-Churro. One example of a polycerate Shetland sheep was a ram kept by US President Thomas...
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The Southdown is a British breed of domestic sheep,: 918 the smallest of the British breeds.: 23 It is a shortwool breed, and the basis of the whole...
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Biological Sciences Research Council. It is best known for creating Dolly the sheep in 1996, the first mammal to be successfully cloned from an adult cell....
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Whitebred Shorthorn Sheep Border Cheviot Boreray sheep Castlemilk Moorit Cheviot sheep Hebridean sheep North Country Cheviot North Ronaldsay sheep Scottish Blackface...
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Swaledale is a breed of domestic sheep named after the Yorkshire valley of Swaledale in England. They are found throughout the more mountainous areas...
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Whitebred Shorthorn Sheep Border Cheviot Boreray sheep Castlemilk Moorit Cheviot sheep Hebridean sheep North Country Cheviot North Ronaldsay sheep Scottish Blackface...
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Blackface (disambiguation) (redirect from Blackface (sheep))
Blackface Amplifiers Boreray Blackface, a breed of sheep Blackface Norfolk Horned, a breed of sheep Hebridean Blackface, a breed of sheep Scottish Blackface...
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grazing wild on the island. Numbers of Soay sheep had declined by 2022 so Boreray sheep were introduced. The Flat Holm project aims to develop the island as...
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Scottish Dunface (category Sheep breeds)
including the Shetland, North Ronaldsay, Hebridean and Boreray. The Scottish Dunface was a short-tailed sheep with short, fine wool. Its face was often brownish...
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St Kilda, Scotland (section Soay sheep)
in 1957. Two different early sheep types have survived on these remote islands: the Soay, a Neolithic type, and the Boreray, an Iron Age type. The islands...
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Sturgeon, and Richard Lochhead. A range of livestock is exhibited including sheep, cattle, goats, horses, ponies, donkeys, and poultry, with a total of 6000...
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Welsh Mountain sheep (Welsh: Defaid, singular Dafad, Mynydd Cymreig, pronounced [ˈdevaɪd ˈmənɪð ˈkəmrɛɨɡ]) are small, hardy sheep from the higher parts...
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The North Ronaldsay or Orkney is a breed of sheep from North Ronaldsay, the northernmost island of Orkney, off the north coast of Scotland. It belongs...
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eviction of many traditional tenants as lands were enclosed, principally for sheep farming. In the first phase, many Highlanders were relocated as crofters...
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