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Merino Landskaap (ML)

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Merino Landskaap advocate the breeding of Merino Landsheep.The Merino Landsheep delivers a good crop of white wool with an average micron of 22 – 28 and an A length at 12 months even with lactating ewes.  A very informative fact is that only 2 pure white wool breeds participated in the above mentioned Phase C tests.  Thereby it has been proved that the Merino Landsheep can be crossed with any pure white wool breed without any problems of soiling of the wool of even the weakening of the fleece.

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Kennel Union of South Africa (KUSA)

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The number of clubs affiliated to the Kennel Union in July 1998 stood at 189. A continuous record of registration of dogs has been kept since the first entry in 1891. Initially these were handwritten into special ledgers. In 1944 the ledgers were superceded by bound books of typed copies of Registration Certificates. The advent of computerisation saw a change to the records, these now being kept in the computer data bank.

Presently the Kennel Union is the internationally recognised representative of pure bred dogdom in South AfricNamibiBotswanLesotho and Swaziland. Reciprocal agreements are in force between the Union and many other similar bodies throughout the world.

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