Cormo
Sign in to saveThe Cormo is an Australian breed of dual-purpose sheep, reared both for wool and for meat. It was developed in Tasmania in the early 1960s by crossing Corriedale rams with Superfine Saxon Merino ewes, with selective breeding of the resulting offspring. In the twenty-first century it is either extinct or close to extinction in Australia, and endangered world-wide.
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The Cormo is an Australian breed of dual-purpose sheep, reared both for wool and for meat. It was developed in Tasmania in the early 1960s by crossing Corriedale rams with Superfine Saxon Merino ewes, with selective breeding of the resulting offspring. In the twenty-first century it is either extinct or close to extinction in Australia, and endangered world-wide.
== History ==
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