10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WILTSHIRE HORN»
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Seasonal changes are most pronounced in wild rams (mouflon) and occur later
than in feral and domestic breeds (Soay, Shetland, Herdwick, Scottish Blackface,
Norfolk and Wiltshire Horn). For the Southern breeds (Portland and Merinos), the
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The Sheep Book For Smallholders
Wiltshire. Horn. The Wiltshire Horn is a very old breed – archaeological remains
of similar sheep have been found dating back ... The Wiltshire Horn has a fleece
of short wool and hair which it sheds in the spring. Shepherding costs are kept to
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FarmGuide - Western Australia 2009-10
... 2815 Weston Kojonup RMB 397..............................................9833 6295 THE
AUSTRALIAN WILTSHIRE HORN SHEEP BREEDERS ASSOCIATION Phone: (
02) 4845 1552 Email: ...
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Mason's World Dictionary of Livestock Breeds, Types and ...
(1946 on) from Wiltshire Horn X Blackhead Persian/ [Wiltshire Persian] Wiltshire
Horn: (England)/m/hd; woolless, i.e. very short shedding fleece/orig. (+ Berkshire
Knot and X Southdown) of Hampshire Down; orig. of New Zealand Wiltshire/BS ...
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Like Engend'ring Like: Heredity and Animal Breeding in Early ...
suggested a separate origin for this breed from somewhere to the south of Great
Britain. (b) The Wiltshire Horn (2b on Chart 1) On the downs of Wiltshire and
Hampshire a larger breed of this southwestern type was found. This was the
Wiltshire ...
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Running a Small Flock of Sheep
Website: www.dorper.com.au Wiltshire Horn. An easy care, horned, medium-
sized breed that sheds its short fleece in spring leaving a hair undercoat for
summer; produces prime lambs. Website: www.wiltshirehorn.asn.au Damara ram
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Sustainable Agriculture
Wiltshire horn sheep are a very hardy sheep breed, grown for meat rather than
fleece, and particularly suited to sustainable practices. They are a short-woolled
British breed that, unlike other breeds, sheds their wool each spring, leaving a ...
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Protected Landscapes and Agrobiodiversity Values
The Wiltshire Horn (now found in the North Wessex Downs AONB, and the
Cranborne Chase and West Wiltshire Downs AONB) probably originated from
sheep that grazed the downlands in the Stone Age. The Herdwick sheep, found
only ...
Thora Amend, Jessica Brown, Ashish Kothari, 2008
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Book of Abstracts of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the European ...
The SIG animals were a wool-shedding type based on using Easycare, Katahdin,
Dorper and Wiltshire Horn rams (all shedders) on non-shedding ewes (Suffolk,
Texel, Lleyn and Friesland). Systematic crossing resulted in a population of ...
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Small Ruminant Production Techniques
... Fat-rump Hair Sheep Nungua Blackhead (Blackhead Persian × Djallonké)
Wiltiper (Wiltshire Persian) × (Wiltshire Horn × Blackhead Persian) Van Rooy {
Van Rooy White Persian} × {Blackhead) Persian × [Rambouilet × Ronderib
Africander]} ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «WILTSHIRE HORN»
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Royal Welsh Show - Texel triumphs in sheep inter-breed
Exmoor Horn (G. Down, Lynton) sup. and male, R. P. Alford; res. and fem., ... Wiltshire Horn (J. Jeyes, Rugby) sup. and fem., and res. fem., R. J. Thomas; res. and ... «FG Insight, Jul 15»
WATCH: Easy Care sheep pioneer prepares to bow out after 50 years
Initially he worked in partnership with his father who had begun breeding Wiltshire Horns in 1911 on the Trefri farm he rented from the Bodorgan estate. «Daily Post North Wales, Jun 15»
Wiltshire Horn branded lamb going well with a gold medal
Their Farmer Dan business is taking a relatively unknown sheep breed – Wiltshire Horns — to a new level with his branded lamb business, capitalising on the ... «Sheep Central, Apr 15»
LOOK: Life on my Bangor farm is much easier now
It is derived from the Nelson Welsh Mountain, crossed twice to the Wiltshire Horn, a wool-shedding breed. The decline in wool values of recent years has ... «Daily Post North Wales, Mar 15»
From allotment to the farm for nurse and his wife
“The Wiltshire Horn is one of only two breeds that shed their own wool. The cost of getting someone to come here to shear so few was uneconomical, but they're ... «Yorkshire Post, Nov 14»
Global focus for flavoursome lamb
A BUSINESS venture breeding Wiltshire Horns and exporting the cut and packed lamb to Taiwan is putting theory into practice for Slade and Marjolein Beard at ... «Stock & Land, Sep 14»
Glamorous camping? The Echo goes 'glamping' in the Cotswolds
My wife and I joined Andrew and their three children in driving their flock of Wiltshire Horn sheep from one field to another. Sure, it wasn't exactly rising at dawn ... «Gloucestershire Echo, Aug 14»
Michael Strotmann züchtet mit Begeisterung die in der Region …
Der Fidel Castro, um den es in dieser Geschichte geht, ist ein kapitaler Schafsbock der Rasse Wiltshire Horn und an diesem Abend auf seiner Wiese am ... «Allgemeine Zeitung, Apr 14»
Perth farmer takes sheep strategy role
His sheep enterprise is based on a flock of 650 ewes, made up of Scottish Blackfaces, Wiltshire Horn cross Texels and Lleyns. Having previously worked as a ... «The Scottish Farmer, Jul 13»
Alpacas brought in to watch over flock of newborn lambs and protect …
Part-time farmers Janet Spiller and Teresa Hopkins keep the Wiltshire Horn sheep as a hobby in the village of Hurst, near Wokingham, Berkshire. A family of ... «Daily Mail, Apr 13»
