What is a British Soay sheep?
A British Soay is a Soay sheep living in North America which is registered with the Combined Flock Book of the Rare Breeds Survival Trust in Great Britain. It is reciprocal with Soay in Britain*. British Soay are descendents of a flock exported from England to Montreal in 1990 and then imported to Oregon between 1998 and 2000.The term British Soay is used only in the US and Canada to distinguish these sheep from North American Soay which are registered in the United States. *”Any Soay sheep registered with the Combined Flock Book, wherever in the world they are, is considered true Soay and if registered Soay were to come back to the UK it would be fully eligible to remain in the CFB, and its progeny allowed full registration.” Letter of Reciprocity to ALBC from the Soay Sheep Society Friends of the Soay and Boreray, RBST (UK) 28 June 2004.
