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Border Leicester
Ovis aries
A breed of Sheep, from United Kingdom
Breed of sheep originating in England.
- Family
- Bovidae
Keeping
How it is kept
Kept for
- Meat
- Mature weight
- 85–116 kg
The record
Breed facts
Size
- Weight (female)
- over 90 kgBLE TGRDEU (Germany), 2024 (source, opens in a new tab)
- Weight (male)
- over 100 kgBLE TGRDEU (Germany), 2024 (source, opens in a new tab)
- Height (female)
- 77 cmWikidata (source, opens in a new tab)
- Height (male)
- 81 cmWikidata (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)
Appearance
- Colours
- WhiteWikidata (source, opens in a new tab)
- Horns
- Polled (hornless)BLE 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)
- Population
- 6 breeding females, 2 breeding males in GermanyBLE TGRDEU (Germany), 2024 (source, opens in a new tab)
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- Name
- Border Leicester
- Slug
- border-leicester
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Family
- Bovidae
- Genus
- Ovis
- Species
- aries
- Cultivar
- Border Leicester
- Wikidata QID
- Q23465
- Origin country
- United Kingdom
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 52