The American shepherd: being a history of the sheep, with their breeds, management, and diseases . NEW RAM. The head should be hornless, long, small, tapering towards,the muzzle, and projecting horizontally forwards. The eyesprominent, but with a quiet expression. The ears thin, ratherlong, and directed backwards. The neck full and broad atits base where it proceeds from the chest, but gradually ta NEW LEICESTER SHEEP. 117 pering towards the head, and being particularly fine at thejunction of the head and neck ; the neck seeming to projectstraight from the chest, so that there is, w
The American shepherd: being a history of the sheep, with their breeds, management, and diseases . NEW RAM. The head should be hornless, long, small, tapering towards,the muzzle, and projecting horizontally forwards. The eyesprominent, but with a quiet expression. The ears thin, ratherlong, and directed backwards. The neck full and broad atits base where it proceeds from the chest, but gradually ta NEW LEICESTER SHEEP. 117 pering towards the head, and being particularly fine at thejunction of the head and neck ; the neck seeming to projectstraight from the chest, so that there is, with tlie shghtestpossible deviation, one continued horizontal line from therump to the poll. The breast broad and full; the shouldersalso broad and round, and no uneven or angular formationwhere the shoulders join either the neck or the back, par-ticularly no rising of the withers, or holloy/ behind the situ-ation of these bones. The arm fleshy through its wholeextent, and even down to the knee. The bones of the legsmall, standing wide apart, no looseness of skin about them,and comparatively b
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