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Suffolk
Ovis aries
A breed of Sheep, from England
Breed of sheep.
- Family
- Bovidae
Keeping
How it is kept
- Mature weight
- 88–125 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)
- 74 cmWikidata (source, opens in a new tab)
- Height (male)
- 80 cmWikidata (source, opens in a new tab)
Production
- Fleece weight
- over 4 kgBLE TGRDEU (Germany), 2024 (source, opens in a new tab)
- Wool fineness
- 31–35 µmBLE 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
- over 400 gBLE TGRDEU (Germany), 2024 (source, opens in a new tab)
Appearance
- Horns
- Polled (hornless)BLE TGRDEU (Germany), 2024 (source, opens in a new tab)
Status
- FAO risk status
- Not at riskWikidata (source, opens in a new tab)
- UK (Defra) risk status
- Not at risk in the UKDefra native breeds list, 2026 (source, opens in a new tab)
- Population
- 4,160 breeding females, 278 breeding males in GermanyBLE TGRDEU (Germany), 2024 (source, opens in a new tab)
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- Name
- Suffolk
- Slug
- suffolk
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Family
- Bovidae
- Genus
- Ovis
- Species
- aries
- Cultivar
- Suffolk
- Wikidata QID
- Q787795
- Origin country
- England
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 52