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Soay sheep
Ovis aries
A breed of Sheep, from Scotland
Breed of sheep.
- Family
- Bovidae
Keeping
How it is kept
Kept for
- Meat
- Mature weight
- 25–36 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)
Production
- Fleece weight
- up to 2 kgBLE 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
- under 150 gBLE TGRDEU (Germany), 2024 (source, opens in a new tab)
Appearance
- Colours
- BrownWikidata (source, opens in a new tab)
Status
- FAO risk status
- Not at riskWikidata (source, opens in a new tab)
- UK (Defra) risk status
- At risk in the UKDefra native breeds list, 2026 (source, opens in a new tab)
- Population
- 120 breeding females, 13 breeding males in GermanyBLE TGRDEU (Germany), 2024 (source, opens in a new tab)
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- Name
- Soay sheep
- Slug
- soay-sheep
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Family
- Bovidae
- Genus
- Ovis
- Species
- aries
- Cultivar
- Soay sheep
- Wikidata QID
- Q502330
- Origin country
- Scotland
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 52