Data of Merino sheep descended from two divergent selection lines for (H line) and against (L line) multiple rearing ability were collected in three different trials to compare response to stressful situations between lines.
Hog Island sheep are a breed of sheep descended from animals first brought to Virginia's Hog Island in the 1700s.
Both Capra and Ovis (sheep) descended from a goral-like animal from the Miocene and early Pliocene, whose fossils are found in Kenya, China and Slovenia.
Both wool and hair sheep are descended from an ancestral wild sheep, which had a coat of long hair fibers and a downy undercoat [11].
Red Dog is the semi-fictionalised biography of an extraordinary Red Cloud Kelpie - a tough, stocky, short-haired, pointy-eared breed of Australian sheep dog, descended from the Scottish collie - who became a legend in Western Australia during his short life (1971- 1979 RIP).
We suggest that Chinese indigenous sheep have descended from two ancestors, from Northwest and Southwest China, respectively.
Chessa et al. [ 4] have provided evidence that contemporary sheep breeds and populations of north-western and northern Europe, e.g. the Finnish native sheep breeds, Finnsheep, Kainuu Grey and Åland still share genetic ancestry with the most primitive type of sheep in Europe descending from the first immigrant wave [ 4].
The Hog Island sheep is a feral breed, descended from sheep abandoned on Hog Island in the 1930s and '40s.
We reach the falls by descending on a footpath, past sheep grazing on a field of cabbages, early morning dew and damp stone walls.
We roughed around the hills amid the sheep, trying to find the highest place, fog descending upon us.
King, J. L. The pyramid tract and other descending paths in the spinal cord of the sheep.
