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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.

Meaning of Southdown sheep from wikipedia

- 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...
- up Southdown in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Southdown may refer to: Southdown (sheep), a breed of sheep Southdown, Cornwall, England Southdown, a...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- breeds no longer raised by commercial farmers, and a number of Southdown sheep. Besides sheep, other animals on display include goats, pigs, rabbits, guinea...
- area used the local horned black-faced sheep and crossed them with a few breeds of white-faced sheep (Southdown, Cotswold, and Leicester). This produced...
- This is a list of breeds of domestic sheep. Domestic sheep (Ovis aries) are partially derived from mouflon (Ovis gmelini) stock, and have diverged sufficiently...