The Romans Crossbred Roman Sheep

We have to thank the romans b their work. Tes this cross breeding of sheep. So these huge sheep that we see to day in australia, you know, these renowned for their wool. Yes, marino blood is in a number of other sheep. The other thing the romans did is, and sheep might not petitly, thank romans for this, the fact that sheep have to be shorn. That's because of the roman breeding programme. One of the types of flece that i like to spin are the so called primitive breeds. And that doesn't mean that they sort of walk around going ugh all the time. It means that they've

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