IDENTIFIER British sheep

Cheviot Hardy specimens hailing from Northumberland and the Scottish Borders. Known for being perky types - their ears that is. Suffolk Black Face Counting sheep? Start with a different breed. The Suffolk left East Anglia in the 19th century, and became one of the most common worldwide. Jacob Named after the Bible's Jacob, and his piebald sheep. While the exact genesis is unknown, their looks were favoured on 18th-century estates. Hebridean The black sheep of the Scottish Highlands and Islands (sometimes brown, with sun). Good nibblers, often used in conservation grazing. Shropshire Say baaah humbug to any Shropshire Scrooges. Christmas tree growers love these woolly-heads for their grazing with minimal arboreal damage. Welsh Mountain Once thought ‘the most despicable of all types’, the wool was pulled from our eyes - we note their beauty and usefulness for wool, meat and milk. Ryeland Dated…