The Baby Doll breed of sheep was popular in the early 1900s, when many English farms kept Southdown sheep for their meat and wool. Originating in the South Down hills of Sussex, England, they were often kept on small family farms. Due to the demand for larger meat  bearing sheep, by the end of World War II, the Southdown sheep was nearly extinct in its native land.
In 1986, Washington state resident Robert Mock started to look for the remnants of this small sheep breed. It took him until 1990 to find two small flocks. Mock named the sheep Olde English Baby Doll Southdown, and helped establish a registry and conformation standard for the breed.
Baby Doll cannot be taller than 24 inches and weigh between 60 and 70 pounds, naturally polled, meaning they are born without horns.
In England, mills wanted all-white wool, "They tried to breed the black wool out. Factories wanted white wool to dye."
Today Baby Doll can be White, Brown (cinnamon) Gray, Black and some even spotted.
“After all there is a Black sheep in the whitest of flocks “      
Bíonn caora dhubh ar an tréad is gile.