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Definition of Southdown sheep

Southdown sheep
Southdown South"down`, a. Of or pertaining to the South Downs, a range of pasture hills south of the Thames, in England. Southdown sheep (Zo["o]l.), a celebrated breed of shortwooled, hornless sheep, highly valued on account of the delicacy of their flesh. So called from the South Downs where the breed originated.

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- The Southdown is a British breed of domestic sheep,: 918  the smallest of the British breeds.: 23  It is a shortwool breed, and the basis of the whole...
- improved Southdown rams.: 923  They were at first known as Blackfaces or Southdown-Norfolks; the first use of the name "Suffolk" for these sheep dates to...
- up Southdown in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Southdown may refer to: Southdown (sheep), a breed of sheep Southdown, Cornwall, England Southdown, a...
- stalls for cows and stables for farm horses and sheep. Rockefeller kept Jersey cattle and Southdown sheep (used to trim the lawns). The poultry plant was...
- activity became sheep grazing. It was on Caburn and other local pastures that John Ellman reared his famous breed of Southdown sheep. During the Second...
- that were traded in the market: Tamworth (pigs), Kerry (cows) and Southdown (sheep). The remaining three blocks are called the Clock tower blocks after...
- Down or Hampshire is a British breed of sheep. It originated in about 1829 from cross-breeding of Southdowns with the Old Hampshire breed, the Wiltshire...
- with imported sheep: in the nineteenth century with Bergamasca and Cotswold stock,: 940  and in the twentieth century with the Southdown.: 280  The Valais...
- cross-bred them with sheep of a wide variety of breeds, among them the American Tunis, the Cheviot, the Hampshire Down, the Southdown, the Suffolk and other...
- and 1900 by crossing first with the Caussenards breed, then with the Southdown and Dishley English breeds. In 1905, steps were taken to start standardizing...