Navajo-Churro Sheep

The Navajo-Churro, or Churro, is a North American sheep breed descended from Spanish Churra sheep brought to the continent in 1598 by Juan de Onate; the Dine (Navajo) people acquired the animals through trade by the seventeenth century, and the breed became central to Navajo pastoral life in the American Southwest. It is a small, hardy sheep with long thin tails, horizontal ears and a narrow body, and many rams carry two or, unusually among sheep, four fully developed horns; its double-coated fleece, naturally occurring in fourteen colours, is prized for traditional weaving. The breed supplies wool, meat, milk and pelts, and remains productive for up to fifteen years; listed as at risk by DAD-IS and critical by The Livestock Conservancy, it has recovered from near loss since the 1970s to more than 8,000 animals by 2022. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/