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Braunes Bergschaf
Ovis aries
A breed of Sheep, from Austria
Sheep breed.
- Family
- Bovidae
Keeping
How it is kept
Kept for
- Meat
- Fibre
The record
Breed facts
Size
- Weight (female)
- 70–80 kgBLE TGRDEU (Germany), 2024 (source, opens in a new tab)
- Weight (male)
- over 100 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
- 150–200% lambing rateBLE TGRDEU (Germany), 2024 (source, opens in a new tab)
- Daily weight gain
- 250–300 gBLE TGRDEU (Germany), 2024 (source, opens in a new tab)
Appearance
- Colours
- BrownWikidata (source, opens in a new tab)
- Horns
- Polled (hornless)BLE TGRDEU (Germany), 2024 (source, opens in a new tab)
Status
- Germany (BLE) risk status
- Conservation population (endangered)BLE TGRDEU (Germany), 2024 (source, opens in a new tab)
- Population
- 1,044 breeding females, 55 breeding males in GermanyBLE TGRDEU (Germany), 2024 (source, opens in a new tab)
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- Name
- Braunes Bergschaf
- Slug
- braunes-bergschaf
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Family
- Bovidae
- Genus
- Ovis
- Species
- aries
- Cultivar
- Braunes Bergschaf
- Wikidata QID
- Q901221
- Origin country
- Austria
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 52