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...

North Ronaldsay (/ˈrɒnəltsiː/, also /ˈrɒnəldziː/, Scots: North Ronalshee) is the northernmost island in the Orkney archipelago of Scotland. With an area...

Islands See also Ronaldsway, on the Isle of Man North Ronaldsay sheep, a breed of short-tailed sheep This disambiguation page lists articles about distinct...

from 1961. 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...

South Ronaldsay (/ˈrɒnəltsiː/, also /ˈrɒnəldziː/, Scots: Sooth Ronalshee) is one of the Orkney Islands off the north coast of Scotland. It is linked to...

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...

2018 at the Wayback Machine. The Guardian. "Sheep Breeds: North Ronaldsay". Sheep Breeds. Seven Sisters Sheep Centre. Archived from the original on 25 April...

include the Boreray and also the North Ronaldsay and the Shetland. In the mid-eighteenth century the crofters' sheep were described as being "of the smallest...

Whitebred Shorthorn Sheep Border Cheviot Boreray sheep Castlemilk Moorit Cheviot sheep Hebridean sheep North Country Cheviot North Ronaldsay sheep Scottish Blackface...

The Soay sheep is a breed of domestic sheep (Ovis aries) descended from a population of feral sheep on the 100-hectare (250-acre) island of Soay in the...

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...

miles (2.4 km). They link the south of Mainland in the north to the island of South Ronaldsay via Burray and the two smaller islands of Lamb Holm and...

breeds including the Shetland, North Ronaldsay, Hebridean and Boreray. The Scottish Dunface was a short-tailed sheep with short, fine wool. Its face...

about 40 years for radiocarbon results from the south as compared to the north. This is because the greater surface area of ocean in the southern hemisphere...

island with a small military base established in 1957. Two different early sheep types have survived on these remote islands: the Soay, a Neolithic type...

of which are now extinct (some do survive, such as the Shetland and North Ronaldsay). The Dunfaces kept in the Hebrides were very small, with white faces...

importing began. In the 1950s cattle were imported from and exported to North America. The Canadian Highland Cattle Society was officially registered...

clan system and later clearances that replaced entire communities with sheep farms, some of which involved forced emigrations to distant lands. Resident...

Shetland animal breeds. Other animals with local breeds include the Shetland sheep, cow, goose, and duck. The Shetland pig, or grice, has been extinct since...

cattle native to the counties of Aberdeen, Banff, Kincardine and Angus in north-eastern Scotland.: 96  In 2018 the breed accounted for over 17% of the beef...

Highlands and Islands as the human populations were evicted and replaced with sheep farms. For example, Colonel Gordon of Cluny, owner of Barra, South Uist...

was in very poor condition; in North Uist, the local population had recently lost 745 cows, 573 horses, and 820 sheep to plague, and the sea had overflowed...

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...

unique larval salt gland and osmoregulatory capacity. North Ronaldsay sheep are a breed of sheep originating from Orkney, Scotland. They have limited access...

mi) from North Ronaldsay (the most northerly island of Orkney). The entire archipelago lies off the northernmost coast of Scotland, in the North Sea. As...

record is tentative, the press cutting the record refers to identifying "'Sheep Island', one of the Torran Rocks near Iona" but there is no other obvious...

is situated 1 km (0.62 mi) east of Flotta in the Sound of Hoxa. South Ronaldsay is approximately 2.5 km (1.6 mi) east of Flotta, also across the sound...

Griskerry, Holm of Maywick, Hoove Holm, Kirk Skerry, Little Fogla Stack, Sheep-pund, The Skerry. Weisdale Voe:[f] Flotta, Greena, Havra Skerry, Holm of...

wearing little more than their undergarments. He replaced the residents with sheep. Despite his behaviour causing a national outcry, it was continued by the...

Scotland (and which was also the ancestor of the Hebridean and North Ronaldsay sheep). Shetlands are classed as a landrace or "unimproved" breed. Although...