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East Friesian
Ovis aries
A breed of Sheep, from Germany
Sheep breed.
- Family
- Bovidae
Keeping
How it is kept
Kept for
- Dairy
- Fibre
- Mature weight
- 80–85 kg
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)
- Height (female)
- 80 cmWikidata (source, opens in a new tab)
- Height (male)
- 85 cmWikidata (source, opens in a new tab)
Production
- Milk per year
- 600 kgBLE TGRDEU (Germany), 2024 (source, opens in a new tab)
- Milk protein
- 5%BLE TGRDEU (Germany), 2024 (source, opens in a new tab)
- Litter size
- over 200% lambing rateBLE TGRDEU (Germany), 2024 (source, opens in a new tab)
- Daily weight gain
- 300–350 gBLE TGRDEU (Germany), 2024 (source, opens in a new tab)
Appearance
- Colours
- WhiteWikidata (source, opens in a new tab)
- Colours
- Brown, black, whiteBLE TGRDEU (Germany), 2024 (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)
- Germany (BLE) risk status
- Observation population (at risk)BLE TGRDEU (Germany), 2024 (source, opens in a new tab)
- Population
- 2,577 breeding females, 133 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
- East Friesian
- Slug
- east-friesian
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Family
- Bovidae
- Genus
- Ovis
- Species
- aries
- Cultivar
- East Friesian
- Wikidata QID
- Q487397
- Origin country
- Germany
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 52