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| Listing Details |
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Smokey Valley Farm |
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http://www.toledotel.com/~smokeyvly/S001.htm
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Main > Agriculture and Forestry > Livestock > Sheep > Breeds > Soay > Breeders |
Summary:
Breeders of Soay Sheep, a very rare breed whose numbers are less than 200 purebred sheep in the USA. Located in Toledo, Washington, USA. |
Description:
One of the rarest of sheep breeds, they have a light wool/ hair coat with some spindle qualities, which they will cast/shead if not sheared. They are of light frame and a almost deer like in appearance, color and some say flavor as well. The rams have a well developed set of horns the ewes are more lightly horned or completely polled. Their coat colors have a wide range of colors the most common being very deer like. Others are all black to all white, tho these are very rare worldwide. This quite rare and unique sheep of ancient island decent are often standoffish with strangers. This once only feral breed was an inhabitant of a small island just off the coast of Scotland, by the name of Hirta, where they survived for thousands of years. There are thought to be less than 200 pure in all of the U.S.A. and only about 2,500 throughout the world.
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