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Cameroon sheep
Ovis aries
A breed of Sheep
Domesticated breed of sheep.
- Family
- Bovidae
Keeping
How it is kept
Kept for
- Companionship
The record
Breed facts
Size
- Weight (female)
- 40–50 kgBLE TGRDEU (Germany), 2024 (source, opens in a new tab)
- Weight (male)
- 40–50 kgBLE TGRDEU (Germany), 2024 (source, opens in a new tab)
Production
- Litter size
- 130–150% lambing rateBLE TGRDEU (Germany), 2024 (source, opens in a new tab)
- Daily weight gain
- under 150 gBLE TGRDEU (Germany), 2024 (source, opens in a new tab)
Appearance
- Colours
- Black, brownWikidata (source, opens in a new tab)
- Horns
- Varies by sexBLE TGRDEU (Germany), 2024 (source, opens in a new tab)
Status
- Population
- 272 breeding females, 35 breeding males in GermanyBLE TGRDEU (Germany), 2024 (source, opens in a new tab)
Photos, videos and notes
From keepers
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- Name
- Cameroon sheep
- Slug
- cameroon-sheep
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Family
- Bovidae
- Genus
- Ovis
- Species
- aries
- Cultivar
- Cameroon sheep
- Wikidata QID
- Q220213
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 48