Sheep Breed Glossary

Meat breeds

• Awassi (fat-tailed)
• Dorper
• Dorset Down
• Dorset Horn
• Hampshire
• Oxford Down
• Polled Dorset
• Ryeland
• Shropshire
• South Dorset
• South Dorset Down
• South Hampshire
• South Suffolk
• Southdown
• Suffolk
• Texel
• Wiltshire

Wool breeds

• Boroola Merino (fine wool)
• Drysdale (coarse wool)
• Merino (fine wool)
• Polwarth (fine wool)
• Tukidale (coarse wool)
• Dual-purpose (meat and wool) breeds
• Border Leicester
• Borderdale
• Cheviot
• Coopworth
• Corriedale
• Dohne
• East Friesian
• English Leicester
• Finnish Landrace
• German White-faced Mutton
• Lincoln
• Perendale
• Romney
• Milking breeds
• East Friesian
• Polled Dorset
• Pelt breeds
• Gotland Pelt
• Karakul
• Rare breeds
• Arapawa
• Hokanui Merino
• Raglan Romney
• Pitt Island Merino