GLPB Sheep Breeds - Advanced
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| Border Cheviot | This breed of sheep was developed in Scotland.
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| Border Cheviot | This breed of sheep are small sized, white faced with bare heads and legs.
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| Border Cheviot | Another name for this breed of sheep is Cheviot.
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| Border Cheviot | This breed of sheep are highly adaptable to a variety of climates, moderately prolific, easy lambers, good milkers, and posses excellent lamb vigor.
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| Columbia | This breed of sheep was developed in the United States from a Lincoln ram and a Rambouillet ewe.
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| Columbia | This breed of sheep is known for its large size, wool-producing ability, and productivity under range conditions.
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| Columbia | This breed of sheep is large, white-faced, polled, and has wool on the legs.
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| Corriedale | This breed of sheep was developed in New Zealand.
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| Corriedale | This breed of sheep was developed by breeding a Lincoln ram with a Leicester/Merino ewe cross.
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| Corriedale | This breed of sheep is medium-sized and white faced. It produces a heavy, medium-wool fleece with good staple length.
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| Corriedale | This breed of sheep are prolific, good mothers that produce good market lambs.
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| Dorset | This breed of sheep originated in Southern England.
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| Dorset | This breed of sheep can be polled, scurred, or horned and are white faced.
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| Dorset | This breed of sheep are known for breeding out of season, being heavy milkers, and producing more than one lamb crop per year.
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| Dorset | This white faced breed of sheep produces hardy lambs that yield heavy muscled carcasses.
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| Finn Sheep | This breed of sheep was developed in Finland.
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| Finn Sheep | This breed of sheep are small to medium sized, fine-boned, open faced, and produce medium grade, good staple length wool.
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| Finn Sheep | This breed of sheep reaches sexual maturity early. Ewes have strong maternal instincts and are very prolific - producing 2-4 lambs each lambing.
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| Hampshire | This breed of sheep were developed in Southern England.
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| Hampshire | This breed of sheep are large, have black faces and wool caps, and medium-wool fleeces.
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| Hampshire | This black-faced breed of sheep are moderately prolific, and have very good milking ability, growth and carcass cutability.
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| Lincoln | This white faced breed of sheep originated in England and are predominant in Great Britain.
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| Lincoln | This breed of sheep has the heaviest fleece of the long wool type breeds.
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| Merino | This breed of sheep was developed from fine-wool sheep in Spain.
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| Merino | This breed of sheep is the basis for all wool breeds of sheep.
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| Merino | This breed of sheep are fine-wooled, have a white face with wool on their heads and legs.
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| Merino | This breed of sheep have a tremendous flocking instinct.
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| Montadale | This breed of sheep originated in the United States from a Cheviot and Columbia cross.
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| Montadale | This breed of sheep is medium-sized, white-faced, bareheaded and bare-legged. They are polled, hardy, and prolific.
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| Oxford | This breed of sheep originated in England from a Hampshire and Cotswold cross.
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| Oxford | This breed of sheep is medium to large in size, has a dark brown to grey face, and is polled. They have a wool cap and wool on the ears and legs.
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| Oxford | This breed of sheep are good milkers, prolific, and have a fast growth rate.
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| Polypay | This breed of sheep was developed in the United States at the Sheep Experiment Station in Dubois, Idaho.
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| Polypay | This breed of sheep was developed from a Targhee/Dorset ram crossed with a Rambouillet/Finn Sheep ewe.
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| Polypay | This breed of sheep is medium sized, white faced, prolific, and breeds out of season.
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| Rambouillet | This breed of sheep was developed in France.
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| Rambouillet | This white face breed of sheep is long-lived and rugged. They will breed out of season.
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| Rambouillet | This breed of sheep are large, white-faced, have wool on the head and legs, and can be polled or horned. Their wool is fine in fiber diameter.
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| Romney | This breed of sheep originated in England. They are small to medium in size and have a white face and legs. They are polled and have long wool.
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| Shropshire | This breed of sheep originated in England. They are medium-sized, dark-faced, polled and have wool on their head and face.
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| Shropshire | This dark-faced breed of sheep are prolific, mature early, milk well, and heavily muscled. Lambs are hardy, fast-growing and produce lean, well-muscled carcasses.
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| Southdown | This breed of sheep is the oldest breed from England.
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| Southdown | This grey to mouse-brown faced breed of sheep are small to medium in size and known for producing meaty carcasses.
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| Southdown | This breed of sheep are polled, have a grey to mouse-brown face and wool on their legs. Fleece from this breed are of medium-wool.
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| Suffolk | This breed of sheep has the most number of purebred registrations in the United States.
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| Suffolk | This large breed of sheep are polled with a black head and legs.
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| Suffolk | This black face breed of sheep are known for their meatiness and high carcass quality. Lambs grow rapidly and produce high cutability carcasses.
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| Targhee | This breed of sheep was developed the the Sheep Experiment Station in Idaho.
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| Targhee | This breed of sheep was developed by a Rambouillet/Columbia and Rambouillet/Corriedale cross.
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| Border Cheviot, Columbia, Corriedale, Dorset, Finn Sheep, Lincoln, Merino, Montadale, Romney, Polypay, Rambouillet, Targhee | These breeds of sheep are white faced.
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| Hampshire, Shropshire, Suffolk | These breeds of sheep are black faced.
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| Border Cheviot, Corriedale, Finn Sheep, Montadale, Oxford, Polypay, Shropshire | These breeds of sheep are prolific.
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| Border Cheviot, Finn Sheep, Montadale | These breeds of sheep have bare heads.
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| Columbia, Corriedale, Lincoln, Merino, Rambouillet, Romney, Targhee | These breeds of sheep are known for their wool production.
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| Dorset, Hampshire, Shropshire, Southdown, Suffolk | These breeds of sheep are known for their meat production.
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| Dorset, Polypay, Rambouillet | These breeds of sheep are known for out of season breeding.
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| Border Cheviots, Dorset, Hampshire, Oxford, Shropshire | These breeds of sheep are known for their milk production.
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| Oxford, Southdown | These breeds of sheep are dark faced but not black faced.
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| Suffolk, Shropshire, Oxford, Hampshire | These breeds of sheep are known for their fast growing lambs.
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| Dorset, Rambouillet | These breeds of sheep may have horns.
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