1. Saxony lifted the export ban on living Merinos after the Napoleonic wars.

2. A single gene with three possible alleles controls horn inheritance in Australian Merinos.

3. These sheep were the wealth of the nation and the Western District's vast mobs of merinos produced the finest wool in the land.

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5. The development of the Rambouillet breed started in 1786, when Louis XVI purchased over 300 Spanish Merinos (318 ewes, 41 rams, seven wethers) from his cousin, King Charles III of Spain.