Rare Breeds-Livestock Updated 05/29/01 10:29:20 AM
Check out the breeds of days past. Some are making a comeback. Many of the places listed are preserving animals which are no longer used commercially.
http://www.nehbc.org/
The New England Heritage
Breeds Conservancy, Inc. works to preserve these rare and endangered breeds of livestock and their genetic resources, preventing the loss of biodiversity in agriculture.
http://www.rarebreeds.uk.com/
Rare Breeds UK
http://colonialwilliamsburg.org/life/animals/pr_rare.htm
Colonial Williamsburg's Rare Breeds Program
http://www.kelmscott.org/
Kelmscott Farm Lincolnville, Maine
http://www.fortunecity.com/marina/bounty/170/index.html
COTSWOLD FARM PARK - Rare Breeds Conservation
http://www.casagrande.com/%7Ejsouth/cba.html
Cotswold Breeders Association, sheep
http://www.JohnMiles.co.uk/
A little different - John Miles- traditional butcher of rare breeds," As an Accredited Butcher of the Rare Breeds SurvivalTrust we are supporting the very best in British
livestock rearing today, with many varieties available"
21, The Homend, Ledbury, Herefordshire. HR8 1BN.
http://www.highdalesmeat.co.uk/
Welcome to the High Dales Meat Company, Reared at 1100 feet between Teesdale and Weardale in County Durham, our quality meatis produced from British breeds of cattle, sheep and pigs, breeds which in the past have
lost out to quicker growing more "commercial" breeds which more intensive agriculture
demanded.
http://www.people.virginia.edu/~asr2g/
Three Creek Farm, Roseland, Va. Farm specializes in Rare Breed livestock, mainly cattle and poultry breeds.
http://www.pigparadise.com/
Pig Paradise Farm The Home of all the Rare Pig Breeds - Pig Paradise Farm
Welshpool Powys SY21 9DT
United Kingdom
http://www.yorkshirenet.co.uk/islandheritage/index.html
Island Heritage -- A working Dales farm producing natural, undyed woollen products from rare
breed, primitive sheep -- John and Penny Webb,
Pott Hall Farm
Healey, Masham,
North Yorkshire HG4 4LT
http://user.pa.net/~brindlehil/
A historic farm working with other breeders and organizations to revitalize and reestablish selected rare and endangered farm animals. Included sheep breeds are Jacob, Leicester Longwool, and
Black Welsh Mountain. Fleeces, roving, and yarns also available. St. Thomas, PA.
http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/scripts/wapis.isa/Handbook?app=NationalTrust&ACTION=PROPERTY&PropertyId=42
Ad for Wimpole Home Farm - Model farm, built by Soane in 1794, home to range of rare animal breeds, including sheep, goats, cattle, pigs and horses. Great Barn houses a collection of farm machinery dating back 200 years.
http://www.ansi.okstate.edu/BREEDS/SHEEP/
Oklahoma State University - breeds of sheep -- also other breeds are linked -
not all are rare
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Meadows/3312/
Rural Shades - 17th century homestead breeding rare sheep for wool
http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/Vines/1037/jacobsheep.html
Interested in Jacob sheep - history & origin with pictures - English
http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/Canopy/1844/sheep.html
Shetland sheep history & pictures
http://www.albc-usa.org/index.htm
American Livestock Breeds Conservatory - Pittsboro, NC
http://www.countrylife.org.uk/rbst/about.htm
Rare Breeds Survival Trust UK
http://www.arrowsmith.demon.co.uk/cruckley.htm
CRUCKLEY ANIMAL FARM, EAST YORKSHIRE rare breeds, tour farm
http://www.sheepandwoolfestival.org/
Maryland Sheep & Wool Festival - great pictures
http://www.tdcom.demon.co.uk/
Another UK page on sheep - Wiltshire Horn Sheep
http://www.old-dairy-farm-centre.co.uk/index.html
Old dairy farm center in Upper Stowe, Near Weedon, Northampton NN7 4SH, England
http://www.hoopers.force9.co.uk/
UK DORSET HORN AND POLL DORSET SHEEP BREEDERS' ASSOCIATION
http://www.wealddown.co.uk/index.htm
Weald & Downland Open Air Museum The leading museum of historic buildings in England
http://www.mrsf.com/
Maple Ridge Sheep Farm Shetland Sheep and Wool Products (good)
http://plumcreekranch.com/
Plum Creek Ranch South Dakota Shetland Sheep &
Highland Cattle
http://bubl.ac.uk/link/s/sheep.htm
Resources of ancient breeds - from England - has some good links
http://www.albc-usa.org/links.htm
Excellent list of links from The American Livestock Breeds Conservancy, North
CarollinaS
http://www.tbc.gov.bc.ca/culture/schoolnet/craigflower/index.html
Welcome to Craigflower
Farm! Scottish
colonists founded Craigflower Farm near the Coast Salish Village site, British
Columbia - great web site
http://members.aol.com/lblake9959/
Shamrock Farm, Florida. We
are a 20-acre Florida family farm, dedicated to the conservation of American
livestock breeds.
http://www.old-cowtown.org/
Old Cowtown Museum is a unique, 17 acre open-air
living history museum which recreates Wichita and Sedgwick County, Kansas from
1865 to 1880. The 1880
DeVore Farm is the newest addition to Old Cowtown Museum. The five-acre farm
consists of one acre for the farm buildings, two acres for crops, and two acres
as pasture. the farmhouse is flanked by a smokehouse, chicken coop, machinery
shed, barn, hog pen, and corn crib. Nice info. on some heirloom animals.