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breeds. From about 1950, this was introduced to the United
Kingdom, where it rapidly supplanted the horned variant; the breed association changed its name in 1981 to the Dorset Horn and Poll Dorset Sheep Breeder's Association, and registers both breeds. A different polled variant of the breed arose
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The Dorset Horn was exported to many countries, among them
Australia, South Africa and the United States, where the first arrivals were in the 1860s, and where substantial numbers were imported from about 1880. The Dorset Horn reached Australia in 1895, and New Zealand in 1897. In 2023 it was
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305:. This Polled Dorset was registered with the breed association ā the Continental Dorset Club ā from 1956; as elsewhere, it soon became more widespread than the original horned type.
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The Dorset Horn is white-woolled and white-faced; the nostrils are a characteristic pink. It is horned in both sexes, with heavy spiral horns on rams. The
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by twenty countries in Africa, the
Americas, Asia, Europe and Oceania; the largest population reported was that of Denmark, where there were
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613:. Domestic Animal Diversity Information System of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Accessed May 2023.
472:. Domestic Animal Diversity Information System of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Accessed May 2023.
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434:. Rome: Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
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Breed data sheet: Dorset Horn Poll / United
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Valerie Porter, Lawrence
Alderson, Stephen J.G. Hall, D. Phillip Sponenberg (2016).
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The Dorset Horn has contributed to the development of several other breeds: the
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as "not at risk" in 2007. At country level, it is listed as "vulnerable" by the
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544:. Kenilworth, Warwickshire: Rare Breeds Survival Trust. Archived 24 June 2008.
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List of breeds documented in the Global
Databank for Animal Genetic Resources
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628:. Pittsboro, North Carolina: The Livestock Conservancy. Accessed March 2019.
586:. Abbotsford, Victoria: Rare Breeds Trust of Australia. Accessed March 2019.
489:. Kenilworth, Warwickshire: Rare Breeds Survival Trust. Accessed March 2019.
457:. Kenilworth, Warwickshire: Rare Breeds Survival Trust. Accessed March 2019.
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in the USA. In the United
Kingdom, where in the 1980s there were more than
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The State of the World's Animal
Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture
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as "at risk", meaning that the total number is between 900 and 1500 head.
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imported from Spain with local tan-faced sheep similar to the modern
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breeds, Dorset sheep were not influenced by cross-breeding with the
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209:. It is documented from the seventeenth century, and is highly
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Dorset on exhibition at
Stampede Park, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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Dorset Horn and Poll Dorset Sheep Breeders' Association
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Barbara Rischkowsky, Dafydd Pilling (editors) (2007).
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in Australia through cross-breeding with the hornless
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205:is an endangered British breed of
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611:Transboundary breed: Dorset Horn
354:breeds of South Africa, through
35:Maryland Sheep and Wool Festival
639:Dormer sheep: White wool wonder
303:North Carolina State University
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318:Rare Breeds Trust of Australia
221:The Dorset Horn originated in
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1006:Badger Face Welsh Mountain
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659:Henry Stewart (1898).
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1011:Balwen Welsh Mountain
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1021:Black Welsh Mountain
1016:Beulah Speckled Face
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1256:Whitefaced Woodland
1026:Bluefaced Leicester
911:Whitebred Shorthorn
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227:Pink-nosed Somerset
52:(2007): not at risk
43:Conservation status
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1206:Scottish Blackface
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1680:Scots Dumpy
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1484:Small Black
1411:Large White
1406:Large Black
1386:British Lop
1335:South Devon
1246:Wensleydale
1181:Oxford Down
1131:Hill Radnor
1106:Exmoor Horn
1096:Dorset Horn
1091:Dorset Down
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146:Wool colour
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1685:Scots Grey
1454:Cumberland
1216:Shropshire
1196:Rough Fell
1136:Kerry Hill
942:White Park
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1718:Aylesbury
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1376:Berkshire
1287:Hebridean
1270:Primitive
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1221:Southdown
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1771:Shetland
1738:Shetland
1690:Sebright
1675:Rosecomb
1602:Chickens
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1620:Dorking
1590:Poultry
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1226:Suffolk
1201:Ryeland
1146:Lincoln
1056:Cheviot
952:Extinct
404:54sā58s
364:Merinos
294:Ryeland
243:lowland
235:Merinos
217:History
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1695:Sussex
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1369:Extant
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1166:Masham
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792:Luing
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299:sport
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157:white
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