The Rare Beasts List (So Far)
My Rare Beasts Project is in its research phase. This is the two month period I allotted myself to decide upon which animals to include in the series and to find the farmers in my region who have these animals. Wherever possible I hope to visit local farms in order to photograph the animals myself. If this is not possible, my plan is to accumulate photo references -either copyright free or which I have permission to use- from wherever I can find them.
If you have breeds of livestock which are currently on the Livestock Conservation List then I would love for you to get in touch with me at rarebeastsproject@gmail.com or just click the ‘contact’ link on the right of this page.
It has been really difficult to narrow the list down, but these are the breeds I am especially interested in:
Cows
Canadienne
Milking Shorthorn
Lynch Lineback
Belted Galloway
Horses
Newfoundland Pony
Canadian Horse
Clydesdale
Suffolk Punch
Shire
Pigs
Tamworth
Hampshire
Large Black
Berkshire
Chickens
Chantecler
Light Sussex
Rhode Island Red
Black Jersey Giant
White Jersey Giant
Silver Grey Dorking
Sheep
Newfoundland
Border-Leicester
Cotswold
Horned Dorset
Shropshire
Goats
Angora
Toggenburg
Saanen
Geese
Pilgrim
Toulouse
Embdem
Ducks
Aylesbery
Rouen
Silver Appleyard
Turkeys
Ridley Bronze
Blue Slate
White Holland

Horned Dorset Ram – Charcoal and white chalk on grey paper