The Beulah Speckled Face is a breed

Breed

A breed is a group of domestic animals or plants with a homogeneous appearance, behavior, and other characteristics that distinguish it from other animals or plants of the same species. Despite the centrality of the idea of "breeds" to animal husbandry, there is no scientifically accepted...

 of domestic sheep

Domestic sheep

Sheep are quadrupedal, ruminant mammals typically kept as livestock. Like all ruminants, sheep are members of the order Artiodactyla, the even-toed ungulates. Although the name "sheep" applies to many species in the genus Ovis, in everyday usage it almost always refers to Ovis aries...

 originating in United Kingdom

United Kingdom

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. Having been bred in Wales

Wales

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 for more than a hundred years, a breed society was officially formed in 1958. This breed is most common in Eppynt, Llanafan

Llanafan

Llanafan is a small village between Tregaron and Aberystwyth, Ceredigion. Llanafan is around ten miles from Aberystwyth and Tregaron. Llanafan has a church: St Afan's Church, Llanafan, a village hall, and a primary school.-References:...

, Abergwesyn

Abergwesyn

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 and Llanwrtyd Wells

Llanwrtyd Wells

Llanwrtyd Wells is a small town in the parish of Llanwrtyd in Powys, mid Wales, lying on the River Irfon.With a population of 601 people , it claims to be the smallest town in Britain, although Fordwich in Kent has a smaller population...

, it is named for its distinctly patterned black and white face, which is free from wool

Wool

Wool is the textile fiber obtained from sheep and certain other animals, including cashmere from goats, mohair from goats, qiviut from muskoxen, vicuña, alpaca, camel from animals in the camel family, and angora from rabbits....

. Ewes, which are naturally polled, are often crossed with lowland rams such as the Suffolk

Suffolk (sheep)

Suffolk are a black-faced, open-faced breed of domestic sheep raised primarily for meat.-Ewes:They are mainly raised for wool and meat production especially when crossed with the progeny of a mountain ewe. For example, a purebred upland ewe such as a Welsh Mountain ewe might be bred with a breeding...

, Texel

Texel

Texel is a municipality and an island in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland. It is the biggest and most populated of the Frisian Islands in the Wadden Sea, and also the westernmost of this archipelago, which extends to Denmark...

 or Bluefaced Leicester to breed mules

Mule (sheep)

In sheep farming, the term Mule is used to refer to a cross between a lowland ram and a purebred upland ewe....

, and to produce market lambs for meat. Average Beulah Speckled Face ewes weigh 52 kg (114.6 lb), and rams 86 kg (189.6 lb).

External links

• Beulah Speckled Face, Oklahoma State University Dept. of Animal Science