Listen to a reading of James Little’s memoirs about breeding and exhibiting Corriedale sheep. Little successfully experimented with crossing Merinos with Lincoln or Leicester sheep from the 1870s. He promoted the inbred halfbred, as they were called at the time, first showing them at the Christchurch show in 1890. In 1905 the New Zealand Sheep Breeders Association acknowledged the breed’s name as the Corriedale.

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