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Teeswater
Ovis aries
A breed of Sheep, from England
Sheep breed.
- Family
- Bovidae
Keeping
How it is kept
Kept for
- Meat
- Mature weight
- 86–115 kg
The record
Breed facts
Size
- Height (female)
- 78 cmWikidata (source, opens in a new tab)
- Height (male)
- 86 cmWikidata (source, opens in a new tab)
Status
- FAO risk status
- Endangered-maintainedWikidata (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)
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From keepers
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- Name
- Teeswater
- Slug
- teeswater
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Family
- Bovidae
- Genus
- Ovis
- Species
- aries
- Cultivar
- Teeswater
- Wikidata QID
- Q12203604
- Origin country
- England
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 52