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Dorper
Ovis aries
A breed of Sheep, from South Africa
Sheep breed.
- Family
- Bovidae
Keeping
How it is kept
Kept for
- Meat
The record
Breed facts
Production
- Litter size
- 1.19Wikidata (source, opens in a new tab)
- Daily weight gain
- 250–300 gBLE TGRDEU (Germany), 2024 (source, opens in a new tab)
Appearance
- Colours
- Black, 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)
- Population
- 2,466 breeding females, 152 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
- Dorper
- Slug
- dorper
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Family
- Bovidae
- Genus
- Ovis
- Species
- aries
- Cultivar
- Dorper
- Wikidata QID
- Q1250393
- Origin country
- South Africa
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 52