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Heidschnucke
Ovis aries
A breed of Sheep, from Germany
Sheep breed.
- Family
- Bovidae
Keeping
How it is kept
Kept for
- Meat
- Mature weight
- 50–75 kg
The record
Breed facts
Size
- Weight (female)
- 40–50 kgBLE TGRDEU (Germany), 2024 (source, opens in a new tab)
- Weight (male)
- 80–90 kgBLE TGRDEU (Germany), 2024 (source, opens in a new tab)
- Height (female)
- 60 cmWikidata (source, opens in a new tab)
- Height (male)
- 70 cmWikidata (source, opens in a new tab)
Production
- Fleece weight
- 2–3 kgBLE TGRDEU (Germany), 2024 (source, opens in a new tab)
- Wool fineness
- over 36 µmBLE TGRDEU (Germany), 2024 (source, opens in a new tab)
- Litter size
- 1Wikidata (source, opens in a new tab)
- Litter size
- under 130% lambing rateBLE TGRDEU (Germany), 2024 (source, opens in a new tab)
- Daily weight gain
- 150–200 gBLE TGRDEU (Germany), 2024 (source, opens in a new tab)
Appearance
- Colours
- GreyWikidata (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
- 4,511 breeding females, 115 breeding males in GermanyBLE TGRDEU (Germany), 2024 (source, opens in a new tab)
Photos, videos and notes
From keepers
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- Name
- Heidschnucke
- Slug
- heidschnucke
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Family
- Bovidae
- Genus
- Ovis
- Species
- aries
- Cultivar
- Heidschnucke
- Wikidata QID
- Q314363
- Origin country
- Germany
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 52