German black-headed meat sheep
The German black-headed meat sheep or Schwarzkopfschaf is, like the German white-headed meat sheep , a medium-sized to large meat sheep. It has white wool, a medium-wide, black and hornless head with strong, sideways protruding ears and dark brown to black legs.
The black-headed meat sheep is a breed from a cross between native sheep breeds with English sheep breeds such as Oxford and Hampshire and originated in Westphalia in the mid-19th century.
Today the breed share of black-headed beef sheep in Germany is around 17%. This makes this breed the second largest in Germany after the Merino landscape .
The main distribution areas in Germany are North Rhine-Westphalia , Lower Saxony , Hesse, Rhineland-Palatinate, Schleswig-Holstein and partly southern Germany.
Performance characteristics
The wool has a diameter of 33–35 microns (C to CD fineness). The sheep is fertile, provides good carcass quality and is suitable for all types of husbandry.
Performance tests: daily increase 420–450 g, approx. 2100 StU per kg increase, slaughter yield 50–52% weight: buck 120–160 kg, sheep 70–100 kg, wool output 4–7 kg
