Scottish Blackface

Performance of different Scottish Blackface stocks and their crosses.

Scottish Blackface wool is a speciality wool in a class of its own.

They are still to be found there, but are now vastly outnumbered by the Scottish Blackface.

There is sufficient pasture now for up to 3000 sheep, and there has been talk of introducing a Scottish blackface flock.

The flocks are mainly Scottish blackface or Cheviot sheep.

The hill ewe, for example the Scottish Blackface, is a hardy animal with good, natural mothering instincts.

Descended from earlier short-tailed Hebridean sheep, crossed with Scottish Blackface.

The Scottish Blackface is the most common breed of domestic sheep in the United Kingdom.

Roughly thirty percent of all sheep in the UK are Scottish Blackface.

Scotch Mule: a mule with a Scottish Blackface dam.

There has never been a case of natural occurring Scrapie in a Scottish Blackface Sheep.

These were implanted into 13 Scottish Blackface Ewes - one of which was Dolly's own surrogate mother.

The event attracts international competitors, who come to attempt to win the "Scottish Blackface Shearing Champion" title.

Some hill sheep breeds, such as Scottish Blackface and the Lonk, thrive on the austere conditions of heather moors.

The influence of energy intake on the pathophysiology of Trypanosoma congolense infection in Scottish Blackface sheep.

However, over the following century the Dunface continued to be displaced by long-tailed sheep: the Scottish Blackface and the Cheviot.

Neither her surrogate mother, who is a Scottish blackface sheep, nor her egg donor, a poll Dorset, physically resembles her.

First, using voice and whistle commands to maneuver the dogs, Jim shows the serious business of herding Scottish Blackface ewes and lambs.

The carpet trade all over the world (even New Zealand and Australia) uses large quantities of the medium class of Scottish Blackface wool.

Despite being partially derived from a long-tailed breed (the Scottish Blackface), Borerays display characteristics which group them with other northern European short-tailed sheep.

Mia placed the Border Collies in the foreground emphasizing a 'sense of urgency' in their expressions, and arranged the Scottish Blackface sheep behind them.

Before the Swaledale, Scottish Blackface, and Rough Fell emerged as distinct breeds, their 17th-century forerunner was the Linton.

In the late nineteenth century the crofters' sheep were cross-bred with Scottish Blackface sheep, which by then had replaced the Dunface throughout mainland Scotland.

There are 600 Scottish Blackface ewes which graze mainly on the semi-natural hill vegetation and 400 cross-bred ewes which utilise the sown grassland resources.

The creation of Harris Tweed begins with fleeces of pure virgin wools which are sheared from Cheviot and Scottish Blackface sheep.