A British breed of sheep, also called simply the Blackface, and the most common sheep breed in the United Kingdom despite the misleading name: it did not originate in Scotland but south of the border.
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Source Oklahoma State University, Department of Animal and Food Sciences: Scottish Blackface Sheep - Breeds of LivestockBreed historyQuote, Breed history
Monastery records show that monks in the Twelfth Century raised sheep that are the progenitors of the modern Scottish Blackface breed.
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