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GLPB Sheep Breeds - Beginner

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show This breed of sheep was developed in Scotland. They are small sized, white faced with bare heads and legs.  
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show This breed of sheep are highly adaptable to a variety of climates, moderately prolific, easy lambers, good milkers, and posses excellent lamb vigor.  
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Columbia   show
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show This breed of sheep was developed in New Zealand by breeding a Lincoln ram with a Leicester/Merino ewe cross.  
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Corriedale   show
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Dorset   show
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show This breed of sheep are known for breeding out of season, being heavy milkers, and producing more than one lamb crop per year. They produce hardy lambs that yield heavy muscled carcasses.  
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show This breed of sheep was developed in Finland.  
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Finn Sheep   show
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Hampshire   show
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show This black-faced breed of sheep are moderately prolific, and have very good milking ability, growth and carcass cutability.  
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show This white faced breed of sheep originated in England and are predominant in Great Britain. They have the heaviest fleece of the long wool type breeds.  
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Merino   show
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show This breed of sheep are fine-wooled, have a white face with wool on their heads and legs, and have a tremendous flocking instinct.  
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Montadale   show
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show This breed of sheep is medium-sized, white-faced, bareheaded and bare-legged. They are polled, hardy, and prolific.  
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show This breed of sheep originated in England from a Hampshire and Cotswold cross. They are medium to large in size, have a dark brown to grey face, and are polled. They have a wool cap and wool on the ears and legs.  
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Oxford   show
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Polypay   show
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show This breed of sheep is medium sized, white faced, prolific, and breeds out of season. They were developed in the United States.  
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show This white face breed of sheep, developed in France, is long-lived and rugged. They will breed out of season.  
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Rambouillet   show
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show This breed of sheep originated in England. They are small to medium in size and have a white face and legs. They are polled and have long wool.  
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Shropshire   show
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Southdown   show
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Southdown   show
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show This breed of sheep has the most number of purebred registrations in the United States.  
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show This large breed of sheep are polled with a black head and legs. They are known for their meatiness and high carcass quality. Lambs grow rapidly and produce high cutability carcasses.  
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Targhee   show
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show Name at least 6 of the 12 white faced breeds of sheep.  
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Hampshire, Shropshire, Suffolk   show
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Border Cheviot, Corriedale, Finn Sheep, Montadale, Oxford, Polypay, Shropshire   show
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Border Cheviot, Finn Sheep, Montadale   show
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Columbia, Corriedale, Lincoln, Merino, Rambouillet, Romney, Targhee   show
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Dorset, Hampshire, Shropshire, Southdown, Suffolk   show
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show These 3 breeds of sheep are known for out of season breeding.  
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show Name 2 breeds of sheep that are known for their milk production.  
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Oxford, Southdown   show
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Dorset, Rambouillet   show
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