vermontsheep

Stud ewes

from Powerhouse Museum

• BobMeade said:

  This photograph appears on page 171 of the book Yesterday's Tomorrows - the Powerhouse Museum and Its Precursors 1880 - 2005. Captioned: The highly folded skn and dense fleece of American Vermont sheep promised to greatly increase the Australian wool yield. Although they certainlhy contricuted in sone part to the Australian merion genotype, Vermont genes reduced the fineness of many flocks and increased susceptibility to blowfly strike." There is more about Vermont sheep and their wool on pages 172 - 174 of that book. More than a century of breeding has led these sheep to no longer have such pronounced wrinkling it seems. So this photograph is quite the historic curiosity of sheep breeding. Read a bit about it here: www.sheepmagazine.com/issues/28/28-6/Alan_Harman.html

• Vermont Ed 802 said:

  Wonderful historic photos!