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Madras Red sheep
Ovis aries
A breed of Sheep, from India
A sheep breed belonging to Tamil Nadu.
- Family
- Bovidae
Keeping
How it is kept
Kept for
- Meat
- Mature weight
- 23–35.5 kg
The record
Breed facts
Size
- Height (female)
- 64 cmWikidata (source, opens in a new tab)
- Height (male)
- 73 cmWikidata (source, opens in a new tab)
Appearance
- Colours
- Red brownWikidata (source, opens in a new tab)
Status
- FAO risk status
- Not at riskWikidata (source, opens in a new tab)
Photos, videos and notes
From keepers
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- Name
- Madras Red sheep
- Slug
- madras-red-sheep
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Family
- Bovidae
- Genus
- Ovis
- Species
- aries
- Cultivar
- Madras Red sheep
- Wikidata QID
- Q48734338
- Origin country
- India
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 52