This article is about the American sheep breed. For the Australian breed, see Poll Dorset.
Polled Dorset
Ewe and lamb at the North Carolina State University Small Ruminant Unit
Country of origin
USA
Sheep
Ovis aries
The Polled Dorset is an American breed of domestic sheep. It is a polled (hornless) variant of the British Dorset Horn. It was developed at the North Carolina State University Small Ruminant Unit in the 1950s after a genetic mutation led to the birth of a polled ram. After some years of breeding work, a true-breeding polled strain was established.
It is an all-white sheep of medium size, prolific and able to breed out of season. The carcass is muscular with good conformation, and the fleece is free from dark fiber. The number of Polled Dorsets registered in the United States has grown to exceed the number of Horned Dorsets.[1]
^Janet Vorwald Dohner (2001), The Encyclopedia of Historic and Endangered Livestock and Poultry Breeds, Yale University Press, pp. 108–110, ISBN 978-0-300-13813-9
Horned Dorset ram. Eventually, a ewe gave birth to twin rams: one was normally horned, but the other, NCSU 402, was polled. From 1956 the PolledDorset was...
true Dorset type sheep without horns. The poll gene was introduced into Dorset Horn flocks from two other polled breeds and following a strict back-mating...
the United States, derived from a polled sport in a flock kept by North Carolina State University. This PolledDorset was registered with the breed association...
combines genetic traits from four distinct sheep breeds: Dorper, Van Rooy, PolledDorset, and Texel. AUW sheep offer advantages such as strong stress resistance...
are unique to the Dorset dialect, spoken in Dorset in the West Country of England. Wiktionary has a category on Dorset English. Dorset dialect Newton (2014)...
of polled domestic sheep that was developed in Australia from Wiltshire Horn sheep with the infusion of Border Leicester, Perendale, PollDorset, and...
of the breeds used to introduce the poll gene (no horns) to the Dorset breed in the development of the PollDorset. This breed is raised primarily for...
achieved. Independent Gain from Conservative "Dorset Council Forthcoming elections, referenda and polls". Dorset Council. Retrieved 23 October 2023. "Election...
The Border Leicester is a British breed of sheep. It is a polled, long-wool sheep and is considered a dual-purpose breed as it is reared both for meat...
capitalised on the idea of breeding Polled Herefords and started the registry with 11 naturally polled cattle. The American Polled Hereford Association (APHA)...
in the Australian market.: 949 : 24 He crossed the Suffolk with the PolledDorset, and later with the Border Leicester. From the third generation he selectively...
Corriedale and Ryeland were used to transmit the polled gene in the development of the Australian PollDorset.: 800 A number of breeds have "Corriedale" or...
Santa Gertrudis. Friend, John B., Cattle of the World, Blandford Press, Dorset, 1978, ISBN 0-7137-0856-5 Goff, Phillip. The Four Goff Brothers of West...
to the county of Dorset, governed by Dorset County Council. Although the borough gained unitary authority in 1997, it retained Dorset's ceremonial county...
resulted from the crossing of the Wiltshire Horn, Suffolk, Hampshire Down, PollDorset, Lincoln and English Leicester sheep breeds. The first Coolalee rams...
Polled cattle, and the first standard description was agreed upon in 1873, with the first herd book compiled in 1874. The breed became the Red Polled...
in 1982 by Kotoku Kurachi and Earl Davie. Polly, a transgenic cloned PollDorset sheep carrying the gene for factor IX, was produced by Dr Ian Wilmut...
Ruislip, Wantage, Watford, Wells, West Dorset, Wimbledon, Winchester, Woking, Wokingham, and Wycombe. Results of poll displayed "a 17-point swing to Labour...
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dystocia (difficult calving) or, because of their dominant polled gene, to produce polled calves. Barbara Rischkowsky, Dafydd Pilling (editors) (2007)...
and former journalist serving as the Member of Parliament (MP) for South Dorset since 2010. Richard Drax was born on 29 January 1958 in Westminster, London...
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