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	Ruskin Museum, Coniston, Cumbria, Herdwick Sheep
		The sheep were gathered into the wash-fold on the beck (stream) edge and tossed into the water where they were dunked (pushed under) and then they swam to the further bank.
		Herdwicks are smaller than the average sheep, and a ewe can die or become poor and stunted in growth if she lambs at too young an age.
		In March the sheep are gathered down to the intakes and pastures for a few weeks before they drop their lambs, which happens from the middle of April to the middle of May. At the end of May the ewes and lambs are returned to the heaf until July when shearing takes place.
	www.ruskinmuseum.com /herdwicks.htm (799 words)

	Herdwick sheep: Encyclopedia topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		They have a hard and resilient grey fleece, historically used as carpet wool, which carpets are sold under the auspices of the National Trust (National Trust: An organization concerned to preserve historic monuments and buildings and places of historical interest or natural beauty; founded in 1895 and supported by endowment and private subscription).
		The sheep are favoured by farmers for their strong-flavoured meat.
		The outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease (foot-and-mouth disease: Acute contagious disease of cloven-footed animals marked by ulcers in the mouth and around the hoofs) in 2001 led to the destruction of many flocks, and to fears for the survival both of the breed and of the typical lakeland sheep farming industry.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /reference/herdwick_sheep (193 words)

	Herdwick Sheep Breeders Association - Based in Cumbria, The Lake District
		Herdwick sheep are the native breed of the central and western Lake District
		Herdwick sheep are the most hardy of all Britain’s breeds of hill sheep, grazing the central and western dales of the Lake District
		The Herdwick’s hardiness and ability to graze over a wide area of fell is key to the maintenance of the Lake District landscape as we know it.
	www.herdwick-sheep.com (226 words)

	Herdwick (sheep) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Herdwick is a variety of sheep typical to the mountainous Lake District, in North West England.
		The sheep are also favoured by farmers for their strong-flavoured meat.
		The outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in 2001 led to the destruction of many flocks, and to fears for the survival both of the breed and of the typical lakeland sheep farming industry.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Herdwick_sheep (201 words)

	Farmer Sharp - Sheep (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Herdwick lambs are born in April/May and the first of the season lamb is ready in October.
		But most exclusively to Herdwicks there is a 2 to 4 year old matured wether, which comes between the different ages of lamb and mutton in age profile and eating quality.
		Mature Herdwick Wether and Herdwick mutton are from animals properly finished by going back to the fell until they are fit, whereas conventional mutton is produced only as a by-product when sheep reach the end of their useful lives.
	www.farmersharp.co.uk /2002/sheep.asp (451 words)

	Featured Project of the Month
		Well, Lakeland Herdwick Direct is in response to the need to reduce stocking to sustainable grazing levels without destroying the hefting (or as it is locally known heafing) system, and ensuring that hill farmers get sufficient income from the reduced numbers of sheep left for them to market.
		Herdwick meat itself has long had a high reputation for eating quality and was the mutton eaten at the Coronation Dinner in 1953.
		Today, Herdwick lamb and particularly shearling (older lamb over 15 months of age) is prized for its distinctive taste arising from the maturity of the animals.
	www.fellsanddales.org.uk /featured_project/herdwick_direct.htm (593 words)

	Herdwick Sheep Breeders Association: Introduction to Herdwick Sheep
		Herdwick sheep are widely considered to be the most hardy of all Britain's breeds of hill sheep.
		Probably 99 per cent of Herdwick sheep are kept in commercial flocks in the central and western dales of the Lake District.
		Herdwicks have a well-justified reputation for foraging ability even in the most difficult terrain.
	www.herdwick-sheep.com /herdwick_sheep (367 words)

	William Dickinson on Eskdale farming, 1850 and 1853 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Herdwick breed is peculiar to Cumberland, and is now nearly limited to the West Cumberland range of mountains, extending from the Derwent to the Duddon.
		The enclosure of all the low commons, and of portions of the higher, and the consequent cultivation of all the available parts, caused the sheep to be sold off in thousands, till, about the year 1820, few except those on the mountains remained.
		There is another breed resembling the Herdwicks, but stronger in bone and heavier in carcase, which the wners claim to be a superior and distinct breed from the "little Herdwicks," as they derisively call them.
	freespace.virgin.net /past.presented/wdickinson.htm (1137 words)

	The Westmorland Gazette
		I AM returnign this week to the Herdwick breed of sheep, which are a key part of a cherished landscape.
		As Geoff Brown of the Herdwick Sheep Breeders Association and of Leader + puts it: "They are widely thought to be the hardiest of all Britain's sheep breeds, living for virtually all of the year on England's highest and roughest terrain".
		As Geoff Brown puts it, "Keeping Herdwick sheep on the fells is as important as keeping the lakes and becks clean, the woodlands managed and the stone walls maintained.
	www.thewestmorlandgazette.co.uk /display.var.626545.0.0.php (605 words)

	Articles - Lake District (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Historically, farming, in particular of sheep, was the major industry in the region.
		In replacing the sheep, one problem to overcome was that many of the lost sheep were heafed, that is, they knew their part of the unfenced fell and did not stray, with this knowledge being passed between generations.
		With all the sheep lost at once, this knowledge has to be re-learnt, and some of the fells have had discreet electric fences strung across them for a period of five years, to allow the sheep to "re-heaf".
	www.foreverc.com /articles/Cumbrian_Mountains (3003 words)

	Breeds of Sheep in Cumbria
		The Herdwick, the Rough Fell and their close neighbour the Swaledale have been bred and reared to withstand the climate.
		The Herdwick and Rough Fell in particular have been shepherded generation on generation, possibly back to early medieval times, to their own hill territory or "heaf", to which they will always return.
		Sheep produce their lambs in spring and the youngest tenderest meat is available from June to August.
	www.visitcumbria.com /sheep.htm (235 words)

	Edgypix royalty-free stock photos: keyword: sheep
		Herdwick sheep, the unique breed of the English Lake District, matching the autumn colours of the bracken in the background in Mickledon, off Great Langdale
		Herdwick sheep - the unique breed of the English Lake District - grazing under a tree near the shore of a lake
		A lone Herdwick sheep grazing in autumn sunshine near Buttermere, in the English Lake District
	www.edgypix.com /kw/sheep_1.html (299 words)

	'The irreplaceable 'wild' sheep who are the Lake District's gardeners'
		He said the loss of these sheep would also have an environmental impact because ‘fresh’ non-heafed sheep would wander at will, grazing all the new grass first and then all the heather.
		She stipulated in her will that the farms she left to the Trust should be let at a moderate rent, and that the landlord's flocks of sheep on the fell farms should be pure Herdwick in breed.
		Beatrix was the first woman to be elected president-designate of the Herdwick Sheep Breeders' Association, which continues to flourish.
	www.visitcumbria.com /herdwick.htm (958 words)

	Sheep of Cumbria in Cumbria England
		Herdwicks are identified by their white faces and lack of horns (except the rams).
		Beatrix Potter, well known author and illustrator, championed the Herdwick sheep and served a term as chairman of the Herdwick Sheep Breeders' Association. She purchased Troutbeck Farm, near Kirkstone Pass, to rear her sheep and left them to the National Trust.
		The rugged sheep of the Cumbrian fells are an integral part of the landscape.
	www.thecumbriadirectory.com /Cumbria_Countryside/Animals/Sheep_of_Cumbria/Sheep_of_Cumbria.php (573 words)

	Guardian \| Lakeland rare breed faces extinction
		The director of the National Trust yesterday called for the swift slaughter of a flock of Herdwick sheep infected with foot and mouth on one of its farms in remote hill country in the Lake District.
		Herdwick sheep are "hefted" to the fells and graze on common land, without fences or shepherds because they instinctively know their boundaries in a local knowledge passed from ewe to lamb.
		She bought a 19,000-acre sheep farm near the Kirkstone Pass in 1923 and after her death in 1942, she left her land to the National Trust, which now owns most fell farms in the Lake District.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4160017-107951,00.html (717 words)

	The Westmorland Gazette: News: Furness (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		HERDWICK sheep breeders are hoping ethical shoppers will expand their horizons and invest in their fell-bred lambs to preserve Lakeland's cherished landscape, reports Jennie Dennett.
		Herdwick Direct has been prompted by the demise of subsidy payments paid per animal and the advent of the Single Farm Payment on January 1 this year.
		Given the hard graft involved in sheep farming and the fact that many hill farmers are nearing or beyond retirement age anyway, the expectation is that many will give-up their flocks.
	www.thisisthelakedistrict.co.uk /news/furness/display.var.562478.0.0.php (659 words)

	Herdwick Sheep frame 2 - Lakestay Cumbria
		Tales that the tough grey Herdwick breed of sheep came from shipwrecked galleons from the Spanish Armada may or may not have a grain of truth to them.
		The Herdwick sheep remember their own heaf or area of the fellside that is their native home.
		Herdwicks are slow growing sheep with a low lambing average compared with lowland breeds.
	www.lakestay.co.uk /herdf2.html (1035 words)

	Rare Breeds Sheep - Baylham House Farm Suffolk UK
		The former is a sheep which has evolved naturally and the latter owes its shape, size and all its other qualities to the intervention of man.
		We keep a small commercial flock of cross-bred Suffolks at Baylham as their forebears were the sheep that we started with many years ago and we have fond memories of some of their mothers, grandmothers and even great grand mothers.
		The Balwen is a sheep from Wales being mainly confined to one small area round the upper reaches of the River Tywi.
	www.baylham-house-farm.co.uk /Sheep.html (1274 words)

	Coastlines - Ten Years On: Sheep Grazing on the Sefton Coast
		Sheep grazing has proved to be successful, areas of short turf and disturbance now exist through the grazing and trampling activities of sheep and the secondary action of a recovering rabbit population.
		These lowland sheep would be unable to survive on open dunes in the winter, but the summer growth on these dry grasslands is more than sufficient for them.
		The initiation of a sheep grazing project on Ainsdale Sand Dunes NNR ten years ago was part of this concept and has lead to the establishment of grazing on the Sefton Coast as a dune management tool.
	www.seftoncoast.org.uk /articles/00summer_grazing.html (711 words)

	Environment News Service ENS Latest Environmental Information Education Current Issues RSS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The hardy Herdwick grazes on the hills and dales of England's Lake District and North Pennines, two of the country's wettest and windiest regions.
		There were about 100,000 Herdwicks in the Lake District before the onset of the virus, which affects cloven footed animals, but has no implications for the human food chain.
		In Cumbria, home of the Lake District, 250,000 sheep have been killed in what the Ministry of Agriculture described as a "voluntary cull." The BBC reported last week that one quarter of the Herdwick flock was killed in the cull.
	www.ens-newswire.com /ens/apr2001/2001-04-16-12.asp (723 words)

	UKAN - Latest News
		There is a fascinating story behind how the humble Herdwick sheep with its coarse and strongly coloured wool which, by modern standards, had little market value.
		The sheep have been a familiar sight on the fells of the Lake District for the past 800 years.
		Writer Beatrix Potter was a champion of the Herdwick whose resilient fl fleece protects the animal from the harshest weather and turns grey as the lamb grows to adult sheep.
	www.ukan.org.my /news/fullstory.asp?id=4009 (416 words)

	Herdwick sheep - TheBestLinks.com - Sheep, North West England, Foot-and-mouth disease, Lake District National Park, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Herdwick sheep - TheBestLinks.com - Sheep, North West England, Foot-and-mouth disease, Lake District National Park,...
		Herdwick sheep, Sheep, North West England, Foot-and-mouth disease...
		The outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in 2001 led to the destruction of many flocks, and subsequent fears for the survival both of the breed and of the typical lakeland sheep farming industry.
	www.thebestlinks.com /Herdwick_sheep.html (193 words)

	Helvellyn Herdwicks-about us (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Herdwick Sheep are unique to the Lake District landscape.
		Herdwick Sheep are great characters with white faces and legs.
		The most widely known breeder of Herdwicks was Beatrix Potter, the children’s story writer, who left several farms and their flocks of Herdwicks to the National Trust when she died.
	www.helvellynherdwicks.com /html/body_about.html (122 words)

	HEFTED SHEEP - PHENOMENON CAST ASIDE?
		The Herdwick is seen around the Duddon Valley, the Coniston Fells, the Buttermere Fells and through Borrowdale and Wasdale up to the highest land in England, the Scafells.
		The sheep are inseparable from the farmers who live on and care for the land where the sheep live.
		On 22 October, the secretary of the Herdwick sheep breeders, Geoff Brown, said only 7,500 of the Rough Fells remained, virtually all in the Howgills.
	www.sovereignty.org.uk /features/footnmouth/hefted1.html (679 words)

	The Westmorland Gazette: Archive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Herdwicks have a great homing instinct and some, when sold, can return home from a dozen or more miles away.
		Indeed I was told that once, a number of years ago, a farmer sold some of his draft ewes at Broughton to go into Lincolnshire and, over time, some of them returned home to where they had been born.
		Beatrix Potter, married name Mrs Heelis, was a great enthusiast of Herdwick sheep and regularly exhibited them at shows.
	www.thisisthelakedistrict.co.uk /archive/display.var.626545.0.0.php (605 words)

	BREED'S FUTURE DISCUSSED IN WINNING DISSERTATION
		The Marshall Bursary will be awarded to Miss Rachel Relph, 22, from Cumbria, for 'The future of the Herdwick sheep', which she wrote as the final year dissertation for her Negotiated Studies BSc (Hons) degree in Rural Management and Animal Production Systems.
		Herdwick sheep in England can be traced back to the 12th Century and were historically bred for meat and for wool.
		Ninety-nine per cent of the total national flock of Herdwick sheep, estimated at just 100,000 animals prior to the outbreak of Foot & Mouth Disease, is found in the Northwest region of the Lake District.
	www.harper-adams.ac.uk /press/article.cfm?ID=2287 (438 words)

	Home > Livestock > Sheep & goats > British breeds of sheep
		More than 99% of Herdwick sheep in the UK are kept in flocks in the central and western dales of the Lake District.
		Homepage of the Dorset Horn and Poll Dorset Sheep Breeders' Association formed in the UK in 1891 for "the encouragement of the breeding of Dorset Horn Sheep at home and abroad and the maintenance of the purity of the breed".
		The Wiltshire Horn Sheep Society aims to "ensure the maintenance and development of the breed, promoting it at home and abroad and providing breeders, farmers and consumers with information and advice." Information is provided by breeders on the species, breeding and breed history.
	agrifor.ac.uk /hb/49293b448e8c63574b8503ed7ac8a615.html (866 words)

	BBC News \| SCI/TECH \| Plan to save Lakeland sheep
		The scheme is concentrating initially on the Herdwick, a sheep unique to the UK.
		Working with an advisory group of veterinary surgeons and Herdwick breeders in Cumbria, the group is establishing a reserve of Herdwick germplasm, including frozen semen, eggs and embryos.
		Described by one farmer as "intelligent (for a sheep)", Herdwicks are known in the Lakeland dialect as "hefted".
	news.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1268000/1268984.stm (568 words)

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