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Zwartbles
Ovis aries
A breed of Sheep, from Netherlands
Sheep breed.
- Family
- Bovidae
Keeping
How it is kept
Kept for
- Meat
- Dairy
- Mature weight
- 80–90 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)
Production
- Litter size
- 150–200% lambing rateBLE TGRDEU (Germany), 2024 (source, opens in a new tab)
- Daily weight gain
- 350–400 gBLE TGRDEU (Germany), 2024 (source, opens in a new tab)
Appearance
- Colours
- BlackWikidata (source, opens in a new tab)
- 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)
- Population
- 268 breeding females, 26 breeding males in GermanyBLE TGRDEU (Germany), 2024 (source, opens in a new tab)
Photos, videos and notes
From keepers
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- Name
- Zwartbles
- Slug
- zwartbles
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Family
- Bovidae
- Genus
- Ovis
- Species
- aries
- Cultivar
- Zwartbles
- Wikidata QID
- Q2512371
- Origin country
- Netherlands
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 52