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Milford Sheep Breed

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  • 03-07-2020 12:46pm
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    dunnacoirbe50
    Registered Users Posts: 13 ✭


    Anyone have any idea of the breeding (crossing) behind the milford sheep breed?


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    thelegend1979
    Registered Users Posts: 108 ✭✭thelegend1979


    Very difficult to find this out. I think there is scotch and leicester breeding in there somewhere. Being bred pure in Donegal. Lovely sharp heads. Have milford rams here. Great to put sharpness into lambs.


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    dunnacoirbe50
    Registered Users Posts: 13 ✭dunnacoirbe50


    Being bread straight in donegal for years but must have been a few crosses to get them originally


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    Lambman
    Registered Users Posts: 1,041 ✭✭✭Lambman


    Yea as far as I know its Leicester x horned then suffolk used on that cross and the lambs off that would leave u a milford? Supposed till be very hungry big sheep.


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    dunnacoirbe50
    Registered Users Posts: 13 ✭dunnacoirbe50


    Lambman wrote: »
    Yea as far as I know its Leicester x horned then suffolk used on that cross and the lambs off that would leave u a milford? Supposed till be very hungry big sheep.

    Would it be the blue or the boarder that would be used?


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    Tomc21
    Registered Users Posts: 9 ✭Tomc21


    There is no such thing as as a pedigree milford sheep they are a cross of Scottish blackface and blue and border lecister ram their lambs are crossed with Suffolk or a Suffolk cross ram i know this as i am from the area



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    kk.man
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    They are beautiful looking sheep.



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    Dickie10
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    Can I ask why is sharpness a good trait in sheep?



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    Mad about baa baas
    Registered Users Posts: 596 ✭✭✭Mad about baa baas


    Sharpness of head i assume you mean? I would say its purely cosmetic but if a man is going to be looking at them twice a day he should like the look of them



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