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Bleu du Maine
Ovis aries
A breed of Sheep, from France
Sheep breed.
- Family
- Bovidae
Keeping
How it is kept
Kept for
- Meat
- Mature weight
- 80–110 kg
The record
Breed facts
Size
- Weight (female)
- 50–60 kgBLE TGRDEU (Germany), 2024 (source, opens in a new tab)
- Weight (male)
- 50–60 kgBLE TGRDEU (Germany), 2024 (source, opens in a new tab)
Production
- Fleece weight
- over 4 kgBLE TGRDEU (Germany), 2024 (source, opens in a new tab)
- Wool fineness
- 31–35 µmBLE TGRDEU (Germany), 2024 (source, opens in a new tab)
- Litter size
- over 200% lambing rateBLE TGRDEU (Germany), 2024 (source, opens in a new tab)
- Daily weight gain
- over 400 gBLE TGRDEU (Germany), 2024 (source, opens in a new tab)
Appearance
- Horns
- Polled (hornless)BLE TGRDEU (Germany), 2024 (source, opens in a new tab)
Status
- Population
- 292 breeding females, 15 breeding males in GermanyBLE TGRDEU (Germany), 2024 (source, opens in a new tab)
Photos, videos and notes
From keepers
Full detailsevery field on the record, to copy
- Name
- Bleu du Maine
- Slug
- bleu-du-maine
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Family
- Bovidae
- Genus
- Ovis
- Species
- aries
- Cultivar
- Bleu du Maine
- Wikidata QID
- Q2906501
- Origin country
- France
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 52