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Shetland sheep
Ovis aries
A breed of Sheep, from Scotland
Breed of sheep originating from Shetland Islands, Scotland.
- Family
- Bovidae
Keeping
How it is kept
Kept for
- Meat
- Fibre
- Mature weight
- 38–50 kg
The record
Breed facts
Size
- Height (female)
- 52 cmWikidata (source, opens in a new tab)
- Height (male)
- 62 cmWikidata (source, opens in a new tab)
Status
- FAO risk status
- Not at riskWikidata (source, opens in a new tab)
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- Name
- Shetland sheep
- Slug
- shetland-sheep
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Family
- Bovidae
- Genus
- Ovis
- Species
- aries
- Cultivar
- Shetland sheep
- Wikidata QID
- Q7495655
- Origin country
- Scotland
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 52