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Ouessant
Ovis aries
A breed of Sheep, from France
Sheep breed.
- Family
- Bovidae
Keeping
How it is kept
Kept for
- Companionship
- Mature weight
- 13–16 kg
The record
Breed facts
Size
- Weight (female)
- under 40 kgBLE TGRDEU (Germany), 2024 (source, opens in a new tab)
- Weight (male)
- under 40 kgBLE TGRDEU (Germany), 2024 (source, opens in a new tab)
- Height (female)
- 44 cmWikidata (source, opens in a new tab)
- Height (male)
- 47 cmWikidata (source, opens in a new tab)
Production
- Litter size
- under 130% lambing rateBLE TGRDEU (Germany), 2024 (source, opens in a new tab)
- Daily weight gain
- under 150 gBLE TGRDEU (Germany), 2024 (source, opens in a new tab)
Appearance
- Colours
- Black, whiteWikidata (source, opens in a new tab)
- Colours
- MulticolouredBLE TGRDEU (Germany), 2024 (source, opens in a new tab)
- Horns
- Varies by sexBLE TGRDEU (Germany), 2024 (source, opens in a new tab)
Status
- FAO risk status
- Not at riskWikidata (source, opens in a new tab)
- Population
- 867 breeding females, 167 breeding males in GermanyBLE TGRDEU (Germany), 2024 (source, opens in a new tab)
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- Name
- Ouessant
- Slug
- ouessant
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Family
- Bovidae
- Genus
- Ovis
- Species
- aries
- Cultivar
- Ouessant
- Wikidata QID
- Q1469688
- Origin country
- France
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 52