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beagh-suffolks

  • Joined Oct 2014
ile de france sheep
« on: October 27, 2014, 06:49:54 pm »
i keep and breed a few ile de france sheep and i would like to know more about them..would like to know if anyone else has had experiences with them or ever worked with them? ...just general opinion on them, im quite new to them..i no a little bit but not much....the picture below is of two of my ewes

Marches Farmer

  • Joined Dec 2012
  • Herefordshire
Re: ile de france sheep
« Reply #1 on: October 27, 2014, 08:14:02 pm »
These look very much like Whitefaced Woodlands.  Don't forget that the UK was the stockyard of the world and many British breeds were exported and/or crossed with local breeds to improve them.

beagh-suffolks

  • Joined Oct 2014
Re: ile de france sheep
« Reply #2 on: October 27, 2014, 10:12:48 pm »
These look very much like Whitefaced Woodlands.  Don't forget that the UK was the stockyard of the world and many British breeds were exported and/or crossed with local breeds to improve them.

they have a backend like a beltex...they look like a muscled dorset..just strange

 

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