Watchlist of the Rare Breeds Survival Trust

The Watch list of the Rare Breeds Survival Trust is a listing of rare and native United Kingdom breeds of domestic cattle, sheep, pigs, horses, goats and poultry, compiled by the Rare Breeds Survival Trust.

Classification

Mammalian farm breeds are classified into five levels of endangerment, based on the number of breeding females. The five classes are:

	Critical	Endangered	Vulnerable	At risk	Minority
Cattle	under 150	150–250	250–450	450–750	750–1500
Goats	under 100	100–200	200–300	300–500	500–1000
Horses	under 300	300–500	500–900	900–1500	1500–3000
Pigs	under 100	100–200	200–300	300–500	500–1000
Sheep	under 300	300–500	500–900	900–1500	1500–3000

Poultry – chickens, ducks, geese and turkeys – are not categorised by degree of numerical rarity; some are classified as "priority breeds".

Listed breeds

Cattle

In 2017, the watch-listed cattle breeds were:

Critical	Endangered	Vulnerable	At risk	Minority
The Chillingham Wild Cattle	Native Aberdeen Angus	Lincoln Red (original population)	Gloucester	British White
Dairy Shorthorn (original population)	Whitebred Shorthorn		Shetland	Irish Moiled
Northern Dairy Shorthorn				Traditional Hereford
Vaynol				White Park

The other native breeds listed were the Aberdeen Angus, Ayrshire, Beef Shorthorn, Belted Galloway, Devon, Galloway, Guernsey, Hereford, Highland, Jersey, Lincoln Red, Longhorn, Luing, Red Poll, Shorthorn, South Devon, Sussex and Welsh Black. The Irish Kerry breed was also considered part of the agricultural heritage of the United Kingdom.

Sheep

Sheep breeds listed in 2017 were:

Critical	Endangered	Vulnerable	At risk	Minority
—	—	Boreray	Border Leicester	Balwen Welsh Mountain
		Devon and Cornwall Longwool	Castlemilk Moorit	Devon Closewool
		Leicester Longwool	Cotswold	Dorset Down
		Lincoln Longwool	Derbyshire Gritstone	Greyface Dartmoor
		North Ronaldsay	Dorset Horn	Llanwenog
		Whitefaced Woodland	Hill Radnor	Norfolk Horn
			Manx Loaghtan	Oxford Down
			Portland	Whiteface Dartmoor
			Soay
			Teeswater
			Wensleydale

The other native breeds listed were the Badger Face Welsh Mountain, Beulah Speckled Face, Black Welsh Mountain, Scottish Blackface, Bluefaced Leicester, Brecknock Hill Cheviot, Clun Forest, Dalesbred, Exmoor Horn, Hampshire Down, Hebridean, Herdwick, Jacob, Kerry Hill, Llandovery Whiteface Hill, Lleyn, Lonk, North Country Cheviot, Romney, Rough Fell, Ryeland, Shetland, Shropshire, Southdown, South Country Cheviot, South Wales Mountain, Suffolk, Swaledale, Welsh Hill Speckled, Welsh Mountain and Wiltshire Horn. The Irish Galway breed was also listed.

Pigs

The pig breeds listed in 2017 were:

Critical	Endangered	Vulnerable	At risk	Minority
—	British Landrace	Berkshire	British Saddleback	—
	British Lop	Large White	Gloucestershire Old Spots
	Large Black	Tamworth	Oxford Sandy and Black
	Middle White		Welsh

Goats

In 2017 the Bagot was listed as "endangered" and the Golden Guernsey as "minority".

Horses and ponies

The listed horse breeds in 2017 were:

Critical	Endangered	Vulnerable	At risk	Minority
Cleveland Bay	Dartmoor Pony	Clydesdale	New Forest Pony	—
Dales Pony	Exmoor Pony	Fell Pony	Shire Horse
Eriskay Pony		Highland Pony
Hackney Horse and Pony
Suffolk Punch

The other native breeds listed were the Shetland and the Welsh Pony and Cob, and the Irish Draught and Connemara breeds of Ireland were also included.

Poultry

	Chickens	Ducks	Geese	Turkeys
Priority breeds	Andalusian Brussbar Burmese Campine Derbyshire Redcap Dorking Hamburg Malay Marsh Daisy Modern Game Modern Langshan North Holland Blue Old English Pheasant Fowl Rhodebar Rumpless Game Scots Dumpy Scots Grey Sicilian Buttercup Spanish Sultan Sussex Welbar	Orpington Shetland Silver Bantam Stanbridge White Welsh Harlequin	Brecon Buff Buff Back Embden (UK type) Grey Back Pilgrim Sebastopol Shetland Toulouse (exhibition) West of England	Blue Bourbon Red British White Bronze Buff Cröllwitzer Harvey Speckled Narragansett Nebraskan Norfolk Black Slate
Other breeds	Ancona Australorp British Araucana British Faverolles Buff Orpington Cochin Cream Legbar Croad Langshan Indian Game Ixworth Legbar Leghorn Minorca Nankin Norfolk Grey Old English Game Orpington (non-Buff) Rosecomb Sebright	Abacot Ranger Aylesbury Black East Indian Campbell Cayuga Crested Magpie Rouen (exhibition) Silver Appleyard