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Scottish Blackface
Ovis aries
A breed of Sheep, from United Kingdom
Sheep breed.
- Family
- Bovidae
Keeping
How it is kept
Kept for
- Meat
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)
Production
- Fleece weight
- 2–3 kgBLE TGRDEU (Germany), 2024 (source, opens in a new tab)
- Wool fineness
- over 36 µmBLE TGRDEU (Germany), 2024 (source, opens in a new tab)
- Litter size
- 130–150% 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
Status
- FAO risk status
- Not at riskWikidata (source, opens in a new tab)
- UK (Defra) risk status
- UK native breed, not yet categorisedDefra native breeds list, 2026 (source, opens in a new tab)
- Population
- 200 breeding females, 12 breeding males in GermanyBLE TGRDEU (Germany), 2024 (source, opens in a new tab)
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- Name
- Scottish Blackface
- Slug
- scottish-blackface
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Family
- Bovidae
- Genus
- Ovis
- Species
- aries
- Cultivar
- Scottish Blackface
- Wikidata QID
- Q763929
- Origin country
- United Kingdom
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 37