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German blackheaded mutton
Ovis aries
A breed of Sheep, from Germany
Sheep breed.
- Family
- Bovidae
Keeping
How it is kept
Kept for
- Meat
- Mature weight
- 80–100 kg
The record
Breed facts
Size
- Weight (female)
- over 90 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)
- 90 cmWikidata (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
- over 400 gBLE TGRDEU (Germany), 2024 (source, opens in a new tab)
Appearance
- Colours
- WhiteWikidata (source, opens in a new tab)
- Colours
- White with black headBLE TGRDEU (Germany), 2024 (source, opens in a new tab)
- Horns
- Polled (hornless)BLE TGRDEU (Germany), 2024 (source, opens in a new tab)
Status
- Germany (BLE) risk status
- Observation population (at risk)BLE TGRDEU (Germany), 2024 (source, opens in a new tab)
- Population
- 6,154 breeding females, 226 breeding males in GermanyBLE TGRDEU (Germany), 2024 (source, opens in a new tab)
Photos, videos and notes
From keepers
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- Name
- German blackheaded mutton
- Slug
- german-blackheaded-mutton
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Family
- Bovidae
- Genus
- Ovis
- Species
- aries
- Cultivar
- German blackheaded mutton
- Wikidata QID
- Q1206146
- Origin country
- Germany
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 52