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DORSET HORN
I ' Among the oldest and purest
el >.-'tish snccn’bfe'eds. the
1 ret -Horn is now’a .very‘nopiilor
| hrcedlnAufilfalla, vvhcre’lt ranks
| secondto the’ Southdown ’ as a
I sire pt'export; lambs.
1 'rne Doi-et was evolved iTrom an
ancient, unimproved type by breed
ers; and ope of tlie earliest experi
mentors, picnpyd, Seymour, of,
Brodnole. wps said,-to have the,
best flock Jn Somerset In 1830 and
nls ewes were renowned as’.good
mothers. ■
There has been'some suggestion
that the Welsh . mountain sheep,
had something to do with the ori
gin of the -Dorset Horn ana the;
-massive, herns' Ipnd colour.to this
theory, while‘the Ihorns', are also
pointed ,,to ;as: evidence of Merino
blood in thcDorset ancestry,
:^<?no. uncommon. feature,lot - the
■breed is that the ewes willinatG
again .almost immedlatly ' after
•lambing and are thlis able to pro
duce tWP crops of lambs in;it ;year.
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