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Dorset Down
Ovis aries
A breed of Sheep, from England
Sheep breed.
- Family
- Bovidae
Keeping
How it is kept
Kept for
- Meat
- Mature weight
- 75–101 kg
The record
Breed facts
Size
- Height (female)
- 64 cmWikidata (source, opens in a new tab)
- Height (male)
- 69 cmWikidata (source, opens in a new tab)
Appearance
- Colours
- Brown, whiteWikidata (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)
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From keepers
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- Name
- Dorset Down
- Slug
- dorset-down
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Family
- Bovidae
- Genus
- Ovis
- Species
- aries
- Cultivar
- Dorset Down
- Wikidata QID
- Q3037259
- Origin country
- England
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 52