sea4th Posted November 28, 2009 Report Share Posted November 28, 2009 are these? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tea Posted November 28, 2009 Report Share Posted November 28, 2009 finnish sheep, I think Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nancy Posted November 28, 2009 Report Share Posted November 28, 2009 None of those show any horns. The closest breed I saw was a 4-horn breed. Vikki, did you take that photo? If so, where? If not, where did you get it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tea Posted November 28, 2009 Report Share Posted November 28, 2009 Actually I have seen sheep owned by a guy in Finnland that have horns. Maybe like Dorsets and horned dorsets.....? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NCStarkey Posted November 28, 2009 Report Share Posted November 28, 2009 Hello everyone, I believe that the photo is of Racka sheep. More info can be found here and here Regards to all, nancy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Fosher Posted November 28, 2009 Report Share Posted November 28, 2009 Photoshop sheep. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sea4th Posted November 28, 2009 Author Report Share Posted November 28, 2009 Photoshop sheep. LOL. The 3 other photos have briards working them, if that might be any sort of hint. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sea4th Posted November 28, 2009 Author Report Share Posted November 28, 2009 None of those show any horns. The closest breed I saw was a 4-horn breed. Vikki, did you take that photo? If so, where? If not, where did you get it? No, Nancy, I didn't. A friend of mine who has briards sent me the photos. It looks like it might be somewhere in Scandinavia, or maybe France. Something about the background.... I don't know. She got it from a breed group she's on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nancy Posted November 29, 2009 Report Share Posted November 29, 2009 nancy, How the heck did you know they were Racka? man. I did all my searches and couldn't find that. Sure looks like the right breed. nancyC Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NCStarkey Posted November 29, 2009 Report Share Posted November 29, 2009 nancy, How the heck did you know they were Racka? man. I did all my searches and couldn't find that. Sure looks like the right breed. nancyC When I need to find out about a rather obscure sheep breed, I go to Sheep101.info and check the Sheep Breeds A to Z page. Regards, nancy (S) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peg Haese Posted November 29, 2009 Report Share Posted November 29, 2009 Sorry, Bill, but they do indeed look like real live Hungarian Racka sheep. I have seen photos before from someone out east who was trying to import semen for them. Probably because of their fleece as I remember. In fact I think she bought a Racka fleece at one of the fiber fests and was trying to find more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tea Posted November 29, 2009 Report Share Posted November 29, 2009 Had my friend in Finnland look. "Tea you must start wearing your glasses." was his comment Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geonni banner Posted December 1, 2009 Report Share Posted December 1, 2009 These sheep reminded me of Markhor goats, which led me to wonder if sheep and goats were cross-fertile. Apparently the short answer is no, but I found this which was sufficiently amusing to pass on… Toast of Botswana - from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia An unusual case of a sheep-goat hybrid was reported by veterinarians in Botswana in 2000. This was called the "Toast of Botswana". The animal was born naturally from the mating of a female goat with a male sheep that were kept together. Because of their vast genetic differences (goats have 60 chromosomes, sheep have 54 chromosomes) and presumably them belonging to different genera (goats are genus Capra, sheep are genus Ovis), sheep-goat hybrids generally die as embryos. The hybrid had 57 chromosomes, intermediate between sheep (54) and goats (60). The hybrid was intermediate between the two parent species in type. It had a coarse outer coat, a woolly inner coat, long goat-like legs and a heavy sheep-like body. Although infertile, the hybrid had a very active libido, mounting both ewes and does when they were not in heat. This earned the hybrid the name Bemya or rapist. He was castrated when he was 10 months old because he was becoming a nuisance. (!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smalahundur Posted December 1, 2009 Report Share Posted December 1, 2009 I can only give you their german name "ungarisches zackelschaf". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Fosher Posted December 1, 2009 Report Share Posted December 1, 2009 He was castrated when he was 10 months old because he was becoming a nuisance. Something related to a goat that was a nuisance?!?!? Imagine my surprise! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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