Tuesday 22 February 2011

Rough Fell Sheep

We found these sheep on the towpath of the Leeds to Liverpool Canal at Barnoldswick. They quickly hopped back over the dry stone wall as we approached them. Which explained the mystery of how so many stones had fallen off and out of the wall.

I'm not entirely sure what breed they are but suspect that they're rough fell sheep.



I don't think you can find them in New Zealand and they'd probably get too warm in Auckland anyway. I probably wouldn't be able to find a Lancashire lonk either. We'll have to go with some kind of colonial breed instead when we finally get around to stocking the paddock with our own beasts.
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  1. MALLARCHY4 January 2012 at 06:24

    the sheep in the picture are mashams, a cross breed between (in this case, i'd guess) a Dalesbred ewe and a Teeswater Tup. This is a cross which is out of fashion at the moment as it has largely been overtaken by the mule, though many may say it is a better sheep than the mule. the draw back been that it's lambs tend to be wooly which lamb buyers don't seem to like

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  2. Unknown4 January 2012 at 20:22

    Thank you MALLARCHY - fascinating!

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