Teeswater sheep

Teeswater
A small flock of Teeswater sheep, Ingleby Greenhow
Conservation status	‘Vulnerable’^[1]
Sheep Ovis aries

The Teeswater is a breed of sheep from Teesdale, England.^[2] It is a longwool breed of sheep, which produces a generally large-diameter fibre.^[3] The breed is raised primarily for meat.^[4]

Teeswater sheep have been bred in northern England, Great Britain for about two hundred years; the breed was rare by the 1920s, but the breed has seen a renaissance since World War II. The Rare Breeds Survival Trust has categorised the breed as ‘vulnerable’.^[1]

The Teeswater Sheep Breeders' Association was formed in 1949 with the aim to encourage and improve the breeding of Teeswater sheep and to maintain their purity and particularly to establish the supremacy of Teeswater rams for crossing with hill sheep of other breeds for the production of half-bred lambs.

Characteristics

The wool of the Teeswater should be fine, long-stapled with high lustre with each lock hanging free and with no tendency to felt. There should be no dark fibers in the fleece, which should be uniform in texture over the whole body. The Teeswater produces a kemp free fleece, a characteristic it passes on.^[5]

John Claudius Loudon's "An Encyclopaedia of Agriculture" of 1825 describes the breed as:

The Teeswater sheep differ from the Lincolnshire in their wool not being so long and heavy; in standing upon higher, though finer boned legs, supporting a thicker, firmer and heavier carcase, much wider upon their backs and sides; and in affording a fatter and finer grained carcase of mutton…^[6]

References

1 2 "Teeswater". Watchlist. Rare Breeds Survival Trust. Retrieved 2008-05-25.
↑ "History". Teeswater Sheep Breeders Association Limited. Retrieved 2009-05-04.
↑ "Kinds of Sheep". Sheep 101. Retrieved 2011-05-05.
↑ "Teeswater/United Kingdom". Breed Data Sheet. Domestic Animal Diversity Information System. Retrieved 2009-09-09.
↑ "Teeswater". Sheep Breeds - St-U. Sheep 101. Retrieved 2009-05-04.
↑ Loudon, John (1825). An Encyclopaedia of Agriculture. London: A. & R. Spottiswoode, New-Street-Square. p. 923. Retrieved 2008-05-25.

Livestock breeds of the British Isles

Cattle

Beef cattle	Angus Belted Galloway Devon Dexter English Longhorn Hereford Highland Luing Shorthorn South Devon Sussex Welsh Black

Dairy cattle	Ayrshire Guernsey Jersey Milking Shorthorn

Dual purpose	British White Gloucester Pembroke Red Poll

Primitive	Chillingham wild cattle Vaynol White Park cattle

Sheep

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Primitive	Boreray Castlemilk Moorit Hebridean Jacob Manx Loaghtan North Ronaldsay Soay

Extinct	Scottish Dunface

Pigs

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Extinct	Cumberland Grice Lincolnshire Curly-coated Small Black Small White Yorkshire Blue and White

Goats

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Poultry

Chickens	Burford Brown Cornish Derbyshire Redcap Dorking Ixworth Marsh Daisy Modern Game Modern Langshan Norfolk Grey Old English Game Old English Pheasant Fowl Orpington Rosecomb Scots Dumpy Scots Grey Sebright Sussex

Ducks	Abacot Ranger Aylesbury Orpington Khaki Campbell Magpie Shetland Welsh harlequin

Geese	Brecon Buff Shetland

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