The newest breed to Church Farm! The Border Leicester is the largest indigenous breed in Britain and the purebred is popular with adults and children alike It is very elegant, with its strong shoulders, long back, evenly coloured white wool, dark eyes and long, pointy ears.
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The Llyen breed originate from Ireland in around 1750. It is believed that they were bread to gain the best meat, milk and wool from other breeds at the time.
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Descended from the local breeds, which grazed the low ground in and around Dartmoor, they are a slow maturing breed taking some 3 years to reach maturity.
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Jacob
The Jacob Sheep breed is steeped in history with origins in the Middle East and is quite possibly the oldest sheep breed in the World, with historical references dating back to the Old Testament, Book of Genesis.
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Swiss Valais Blacknose
Although the earliest mention of these sheep dates back to the 1400’s this large framed docile mountain sheep was first recognised as a separate breed in 1962.
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The Whitefaced Woodland is one of the largest British hill breeds.
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Mainly found in the North of England, the Wensleydale is the result of a cross between the now extinct Teeswater Muggs and a Dishley Leicester ram, this produced “Bluecap” the foundation ram of the Wensleydale breed (1839).
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The Southdown is one of the oldest Downland breed and enjoyed its heyday from the late 1700s up to the Second World War when farm after farm changed over to dairying.
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The most northerly of the Orkney islands is North Ronaldsay where this small and endearing sheep is found and from where it gets its name.
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A hardy, active sheep, bred to graze the heathlands and the poorest soils.
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The Manx Loaghton is a primitive breed of sheep that has roots way back, probably to the Iron Age, and although it was once found in many parts of Britain it only survived on the Isle of Man because the island was relatively isolated.
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Originally this sheep came from the island of Boreray off the west coast of Scotland in the St Kilda group of the Hebrides.
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