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938:Small Black
865:Large White
860:Large Black
840:British Lop
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700:Wensleydale
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585:Hill Radnor
560:Exmoor Horn
550:Dorset Horn
545:Dorset Down
515:Clun Forest
419:Blue Albion
386:Tory Island
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256:South Devon
241:Lincoln Red
183:Beef cattle
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396:White Park
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284:Ayrshire
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900:Extinct
771:Extinct
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600:Lincoln
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406:Extinct
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