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New Zealand agricultural history. No 6. Importing exotic sheep breeds

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Finding sheep in UK and IrelandPurebred ewes on Somes  By Dr Clive Dalton Finding sheep in UK and Ireland Without going back to the official MAF Research files (if anyone would know where to look), this is what Dr Neil Clarke, previously in  Ruakura genetics remembers about the flocks he located that had sheep for … Read more

New Zealand agricultural history. No 12. Importing exotic sheep breeds

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 Selection of sheep in Scandinavia  Where the sheep came from By Dr Clive Dalton Selection of sheep in Scandinavia Dr Leyden Baker Dr Leyden Baker from MAF Ruakura Genetics was assigned responsibility to travel to Denmark and Finland to select the sheep for the 1984 importation, accompanied by MAF veterinarian Dr Stuart MacDiarmid.  Their first … Read more