Breed Guidelines

LINCOLN LONGWOOL SCORECARD

Breed Character - 20%

• The Lincoln Longwool is an impressive, multi-purpose, heavily built, rugged, adaptable sheep with a calm and gentle disposition. The Lincoln yields a very long, lustrous, coarse, strong, wave common or braid fleece. The fleece is either white or colored. The colored fleece tends to be shaded in color with the darkest wool on the shoulders and legs and silver gray to black on the body.
• The ideal white and colored Lincoln should have:
  • A broad-based head with wide set nostrils; an open face with a well-defined forelock. Masculine wrinkles on the head of the ram are acceptable.
  • Ears not pointed, too forward or lopping.
  • Solid black hooves, preferred.
  • Objectionable: white hooves, wool below the eyes.
• Specific to the white Lincoln:
  • Blue skinned ears, with dark spots on the back are desirable.
  • Objectionable; light pink nose, brown color, rust or smut on legs, ears, or face

Wool - 40%

• Distinctive, lightly yoked, uniform in wave or curl with loft, luster and density. Emphasis should be placed on uniformity.
• Strong, well-defined, braid-type crimp with braid no finer than low quarter (46s).
• Fast growing and heavy yielding by weight.
• The white Lincoln should be free of colored wool. A small black spot on lower leg is not a disqualification. More or larger black spots are objectionable.
• The colored Lincoln fleece is acceptable in any single color or variation of natural colors.

Conformation - 40%

• Standard criteria for desirable sheep conformation should be applied in judging the white and colored Lincoln Longwool.

 

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