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Île-de-France
Ovis aries
A breed of Sheep, from France
Sheep breed.
- Family
- Bovidae
Keeping
How it is kept
Kept for
- Meat
- Mature weight
- 80–120 kg
The record
Breed facts
Size
- Weight (female)
- 50–60 kgBLE TGRDEU (Germany), 2024 (source, opens in a new tab)
- Weight (male)
- 50–60 kgBLE TGRDEU (Germany), 2024 (source, opens in a new tab)
- Height (female)
- 70 cmWikidata (source, opens in a new tab)
- Height (male)
- 78 cmWikidata (source, opens in a new tab)
Production
- Fleece weight
- over 4 kgBLE TGRDEU (Germany), 2024 (source, opens in a new tab)
- Wool fineness
- 26–30 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
- 350–400 gBLE TGRDEU (Germany), 2024 (source, opens in a new tab)
Appearance
- Colours
- WhiteWikidata (source, opens in a new tab)
- Horns
- Polled (hornless)BLE TGRDEU (Germany), 2024 (source, opens in a new tab)
Status
- Population
- 611 breeding females, 26 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
- Île-de-France
- Slug
- le-de-france
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Family
- Bovidae
- Genus
- Ovis
- Species
- aries
- Cultivar
- Île-de-France
- Wikidata QID
- Q3140727
- Origin country
- France
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 52