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Romanov
Ovis aries
A breed of Sheep, from Russia
Sheep breed.
- Family
- Bovidae
Keeping
How it is kept
Kept for
- Meat
- Mature weight
- 47–67 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 (male)
- 57 cmWikidata (source, opens in a new tab)
Production
- Fleece weight
- 3–4 kgBLE TGRDEU (Germany), 2024 (source, opens in a new tab)
- Litter size
- 2.15Wikidata (source, opens in a new tab)
- Litter size
- over 200% lambing rateBLE TGRDEU (Germany), 2024 (source, opens in a new tab)
- Daily weight gain
- 200–250 gBLE TGRDEU (Germany), 2024 (source, opens in a new tab)
Appearance
- Colours
- Black, greyWikidata (source, opens in a new tab)
- Horns
- Horned or polledBLE TGRDEU (Germany), 2024 (source, opens in a new tab)
Status
- FAO risk status
- Not at riskWikidata (source, opens in a new tab)
- Population
- 41 breeding females, 8 breeding males in GermanyBLE TGRDEU (Germany), 2024 (source, opens in a new tab)
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- Name
- Romanov
- Slug
- romanov
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Family
- Bovidae
- Genus
- Ovis
- Species
- aries
- Cultivar
- Romanov
- Wikidata QID
- Q2582366
- Origin country
- Russia
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 52