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Border Leicester

breed of sheep originating in England
Class type of: sheep Q23465

Facts

11 properties
Instance of
sheep breed
Inception
1750[8]
Country
United Kingdom, South Africa[2][3]
Subclass of
sheep[4]
Has use
mutton[5]
Color
white[6]
Country of origin
United Kingdom[7]
Described by source
Mason's World Encyclopedia of Livestock Breeds and Breeding, Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[9][10]
FAO risk status
not at risk[15]
Height
81.0, 77.0[11][12]
Mass
116.0, 85.0[13][14]
🏷️ Also known as
en Border Leicester vi Cừu Leicester biên giới
🔖 Identifiers · 5
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Border Leicester sheep in Bulgaria 01.jpg ↗
Freebase ID
/m/08j67f
Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID
border-leicester
Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued)
2908855248
ScienceDirect topic ID
agricultural-and-biological-sciences/border-leicester

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🔗 Connections
Country 2
United Kingdom, South Africa
Color 1
white
Country of origin 1
United Kingdom
Subclass of 1
sheep
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Summary

Border Leicester is a sheep breed[1].

Related Entities

South Africa United Kingdom

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . fao-dadis-breed-detail.firebaseapp.com. fao-dadis-breed-detail.firebaseapp.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . fao-dadis-breed-detail.firebaseapp.com. fao-dadis-breed-detail.firebaseapp.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . fao-dadis-breed-detail.firebaseapp.com. fao-dadis-breed-detail.firebaseapp.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . fao-dadis-breed-detail.firebaseapp.com. fao-dadis-breed-detail.firebaseapp.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . fao-dadis-breed-detail.firebaseapp.com. fao-dadis-breed-detail.firebaseapp.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . fao-dadis-breed-detail.firebaseapp.com. fao-dadis-breed-detail.firebaseapp.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . fao.org. fao.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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