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Valais Blacknose
Ovis aries
A breed of Sheep, from Switzerland
Sheep breed.
- Family
- Bovidae
Keeping
How it is kept
Kept for
- Meat
- Mature weight
- 80–100 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)
- 75 cmWikidata (source, opens in a new tab)
- Height (male)
- 80 cmWikidata (source, opens in a new tab)
Production
- Fleece weight
- 3–4 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
- 150–200% lambing rateBLE TGRDEU (Germany), 2024 (source, opens in a new tab)
- Daily weight gain
- 250–300 gBLE TGRDEU (Germany), 2024 (source, opens in a new tab)
Appearance
- Colours
- Black, whiteWikidata (source, opens in a new tab)
Status
- FAO risk status
- Not at riskWikidata (source, opens in a new tab)
- Population
- 796 breeding females, 109 breeding males in GermanyBLE TGRDEU (Germany), 2024 (source, opens in a new tab)
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- Name
- Valais Blacknose
- Slug
- valais-blacknose
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Family
- Bovidae
- Genus
- Ovis
- Species
- aries
- Cultivar
- Valais Blacknose
- Wikidata QID
- Q870185
- Origin country
- Switzerland
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 52