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Black Welsh Mountain sheep
Ovis aries
A breed of Sheep, from Wales
Sheep breed.
- Family
- Bovidae
Keeping
How it is kept
Kept for
- Meat
The record
Breed facts
Size
- Weight (female)
- 40–50 kgBLE TGRDEU (Germany), 2024 (source, opens in a new tab)
- Weight (male)
- 60–70 kgBLE TGRDEU (Germany), 2024 (source, opens in a new tab)
Production
- Fleece weight
- up to 2 kgBLE TGRDEU (Germany), 2024 (source, opens in a new tab)
- Wool fineness
- 26–30 µmBLE TGRDEU (Germany), 2024 (source, opens in a new tab)
- Litter size
- 150–200% lambing rateBLE TGRDEU (Germany), 2024 (source, opens in a new tab)
Appearance
- Colours
- BlackWikidata (source, opens in a new tab)
- Colours
- MulticolouredBLE TGRDEU (Germany), 2024 (source, opens in a new tab)
- Horns
- Varies by sexBLE TGRDEU (Germany), 2024 (source, opens in a new tab)
Status
- FAO risk status
- Not at riskWikidata (source, opens in a new tab)
- UK (Defra) risk status
- At risk in the UKDefra native breeds list, 2026 (source, opens in a new tab)
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- Name
- Black Welsh Mountain sheep
- Slug
- black-welsh-mountain-sheep
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Family
- Bovidae
- Genus
- Ovis
- Species
- aries
- Cultivar
- Black Welsh Mountain sheep
- Wikidata QID
- Q4922142
- Origin country
- Wales
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 52