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Roux du Valais
Ovis aries
A breed of Sheep, from Switzerland

Sheep breed.
- Family
- Bovidae
Keeping
How it is kept
- Mature weight
- 62–75 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)
- 60 cmWikidata (source, opens in a new tab)
- Height (male)
- 65 cmWikidata (source, opens in a new tab)
Production
- Fleece weight
- 3–4 kgBLE 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
- 250–300 gBLE TGRDEU (Germany), 2024 (source, opens in a new tab)
Appearance
- Colours
- BrownWikidata (source, opens in a new tab)
Status
- FAO risk status
- Endangered-maintainedWikidata (source, opens in a new tab)
- Population
- 13 breeding females, 2 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
- Roux du Valais
- Slug
- roux-du-valais
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Family
- Bovidae
- Genus
- Ovis
- Species
- aries
- Cultivar
- Roux du Valais
- Wikidata QID
- Q587597
- Origin country
- Switzerland
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 52