Die eerste merino's kom aan die Kaap aan

1789 · regional

Six Spanish merinos - two rams and four ewes - given to Col. Robert Jacob Gordon and kept pure at Groenkloof. The animal that would pay for every farm in this history arrives three years after the root ancestor is born.

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• Merino sheep and the ostrich feather boom in the Cape merinosa.co.za; southafrica.co.za (Oudtshoorn ostrich industry)

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• mentioned Een-en-tagtig duisend morg