Sentences with phrase «sheep breed»

I've been raising a very old and rare Dutch sheep breed for over 30 years now and I only got my first borders about 8 years ago.

Cheviot Tweed — This is made from the Cheviot sheep breed.

Mr Veitch said the Kaya Rabada ram came in the top 10 per cent of performance parameters in the coat shedding sheep breeds.

It has some great information about handspinning, wool, sheep breeds and other technical detals like that.

The first winter went by in busyness and home construction and sheep breeding.

«Rachel draws on her deep passion for natural color, vintage textiles, local sheep breeds.

Researchers administering inhaled transgenic alpha - 1 antitrypsin from sheep bred by PPL discovered that some patients suffered pulmonary symptoms that caused them to leave the trial — a possible immune reaction to residual proteins from the animal that remained after purification of the drug.

Wilmut: The sheep breeding season begins in October and ends in February, March - ish.

This Italian suiting fabric is made of Super 150's organic merino wool sheared off the sheep bred in Tasmania.

Scientists who dedicated their studies to bovine and sheep breeding noted the presence in these same regions of dogs with long, bristly coats.

Set literally at the end of the world, Bahia Bustamante is an idyllic seafront sheep breeding farm, featuring rooms with private terraces affording sea / garden views.

Not exact matches

This new breed of sheep is scarier than any wolf could be.

Then, recently, I read that according to research on sheep (a certain breed that I can't remember the name of) in England, they are not so stupid as previously thought.They recognise different people's faces and have pretty good memories.

The Romney sheep, formerly called the Romney Marsh sheep but generally referred - to by the local farmers as the Kent, is a breed of sheep originating in England

Here he successfully bred Border Leicester stud sheep.

Increased entries along with a lift in overall quality of the Corriedale sheep exhibited reflected the rise in sheep and wool prices across the board, and highlighted the true dual purpose characteristics of the breed.

Accounting for 95 % of the milk production, the Sardinian sheep is a breed well - known for its rusticity and adaptability.

Mr Veitch is well - known in Australia's Dorper sheep industry as the veterinarian who helped bring the breed into our country for the first - time in 1996.

Of the businesses breeding sheep in Australia, the lambing rate per 100 ewes was 98 for meat sheep and 90 for wool sheep.

I was using sari silk yarn and sari silk ribbon in my work, along with Harris tweed aran and rare breed seaweed - eating sheep aran of North Ronaldsay — a beautiful soft luxurious undyed and unbleached yarn.

The Old Sturbridge Village sheep are Gulf Coast Natives — a heritage breed dating back to the arrival of Spanish settlers in the New World in the 1500s.

The Volkening planners are being so precise about the authenticity of their farm that they are evicting five sheep, members of a breed — horned dorset — that wouldn't have been seen on an 1880s farm, King said.

Guests can also meet the Village's heritage breed farm animals — sheep, pigs, turkeys and a new calf — and see the horse - powered Cider Mill in action.

Dolly died in February 2003, with lung cancer and crippling arthritis, aged six - half the life expectancy for a sheep of her breed.

Soay sheep are a primitive breed of domestic sheep living free on the island of Hirta in the St Kilda archipelago.

Improved husbandry means fewer sheep die in the fields, especially during winter when the ravens breed, and traces of sheep - dip on those that do die may poison the ravens.

Professor Matthew Collins, of the Department of Archaeology at York, who heads the University's BioArCh research centre, said: «We believe the two specimens derive froman unimproved northern hill - sheep typical in Yorkshire in the 17th century, and from a sheep derived from the «improved» flocks, such as those bred in the Midlands by Robert Bakewell, which were spreading through England in the 18th century.

She plans to present the same face - recognition challenge to new sheep that have been bred in Australia to develop Huntington's disease.

Recent research on the domestication of donkeys, camelids (which includes dromedaries, Bactrian camels, llamas and alpacas) pigs, cattle, sheep and goats suggests that neither intentional breeding nor genetic isolation were as significant as traditionally thought, the scientists said.

Genetic material obtained from two pieces of parchment, one from the 1600s and one from the 1700s, show that sheep provided the paper's starting material and that over that century, a big shift occurred in the breed of sheep used in that part of the United Kingdom — from a scrappier, highlands, black - faced variety to a meatier, lowland breed.

Features of the sheep's coat and the rise of textile crafts in teracted to motivate the thousands of years of selective breeding that led to modern fleece types

Such hardiness in the face of locally tough conditions is a hallmark of the regional versions of various livestock breeds, such as worm - resistant Red Maasai sheep [see video here] and Sheko cattle with their immunity to sleeping sickness [see video here].

Schon's team compared a highly variable region of the mitochondrial DNA from cells of Dolly's genetic mother and from the breed of sheep that provided the surrogate egg.

For example, in a 2014 study of DNA from two pieces of parchment from the 1600s and 1700s, Collins's team showed that a big shift occurred in the breed of sheep raised in the midlands of the United Kingdom, from a scrappier, black - faced, highland variety to a meatier, lowland breed.

Fresh insights into the genetic code of sheep could aid breeding programmes to improve their health and productivity.

Climate change is causing a breed of wild sheep in Scotland to shrink, according to research.

Manchego Cheese is Spanish sheep's milk cheese, produced exclusively by sheep of the Manchega breed.

Let's throw in some of my favorite cheese to eat with apples: Manchego — «a cheese made in the La Mancha region of Spain from the milk of sheep of the Manchega breed» (Wikipedia).

The name comes from the breed of Merino sheep that graze over the open pastures of Australia, New Zealand, Patagonia, etc..

They were bred to chase off wolves and other predators in order to protect their flocks of sheep.

NEW YORK (AP)-- An Italian truffle - sniffer, a French sheep herder nurtured back from near - extinction and a small Californian shepherd are joining the American Kennel Club's roster of recognized dog breeds.

A shepherd's best friend, the Great Pyrenees was bred to protect sheep on the steep slopes of southwestern Europe.

He considers sheep dog trials as they currently stand to be detrimental to the breeding of good dogs.

In addition to helping control rodents and snakes, the new breed was used to herd sheep, as a watchdog, and for companionship.

Originally bred for herding sheep and cattle, they have proven themselves as excellent companion animals and are outstanding competitors in sheepdog trials and dog agility.

This intelligent breed is yet another gentle giant, and was used in sheep herding and for family protection.

While these dogs were originally bred to protect flocks of sheep, they also make great family pets.

Who would have thought that a dog breed would be named after a country that exported sheep these dogs were supposed to herd!

The Belgian Malinois was another type of dog originally bred to herd and watch over the safety of sheep.

Originally bred as a working dog to follow instructions when herding livestock such as sheep, the Border Collie has a reputation as being one of the most intelligent of all dog breeds.