List of sheep breeds
This is a list of domestic sheep breeds ordered by origin .
European breeds
Belgium
- Ardennais Roux (→ Ardennais Roux , French)
- Ardennais tacheté
- Ardense voskop
- Basette, → Entre-Sambre-et-Meuse
- Belgian milk sheep ( French Mouton Laitier Belge , Dutch Belgian Melkschaap )
- Beltex (→ Beltex , Dutch)
- Entre-Sambre-et-Meuse , = "Basette", "Sambretine"
- Houtlandschaf ( Dutch Houtlandschaap )
- Kempens Schaap (→ Kempens schaap , Dutch; French Mouton Campinois )
- Lakens Schaap (→ Lakens schaap , Dutch)
- Sambretine, → Entre-Sambre-et-Meuse
- Mergelland Schaap (→ Mergellandschaap , Dutch)
- Vlaams Kuddeschaap
- Vlaams Schaap (→ Vlaams schaap , Dutch; French Mouton Flamand )
Germany
(according to the listing in the state sheep breeding associations)
- Merino breeds
-
Meat sheep
- Berrichon du Cher
- Blue-headed meat sheep
- Charollais sheep
- Hampshire sheep
- Ile de France sheep
- Linen sheep (new breeding direction)
- Leineschaf (old breeding direction)
- Black-headed meat sheep
- Suffolk sheep
- Texel sheep
- White-headed meat sheep
- Zwartbles
- Dairy sheep
-
Country sheep
- Bentheimer Landschaf
- Charmoise Hill
- Coburg fox sheep
- Gotland sheep
- Guteschaf
- Gray Horned Heidschnucke
- Jacob sheep
- Kerry Hill
- Ouessant sheep
- Coarse-wooly Pomeranian landscape
- Rhön sheep
- Romanov sheep
- Scottish Blackface
- Shropshire sheep
- Skudde
- Soay sheep
- Forest sheep
- White Horned Heidschnucke
- White Hornless Heidschnucke = Moorschnucke
- Racka sheep
- Zaupelschaf = Cikta sheep
- Mountain sheep
- Hair sheep
France
- Alfort, extinct
- Alpine or "Commun des Alpes"
- Ardes, extinct
- Artois, extinct
- Aure-Campan , = "Auroise", = "Aure et Campan" (→ Aure et campan , French)
- Avranchin (→ Avranchin , French)
- Barégeoise (→ Barégeoise , French)
- Basco-béarnaise (→ Basco-béarnaise , French)
- Belle Ile (→ Belle-Île , French)
- Berrichon de l'Indre (→ Berrichon de l'Indre , French)
- Berrichon du Cher (meat sheep)
- Bizet (→ Bizet , French)
- Blanc du Massif central (→ Blanche du Massif central , French)
- Bleu du Maine (→ Bleu du Maine , French)
- Boischaut, extinct
- Boulonnaise (→ Boulonnaise , French)
- Burn, extinct
- Brigasque (→ Brigasque , French)
- Cambrai, extinct
- Campan, extinct
- Castillonnaise (→ Castillonnaise , French)
- Cauchois, extinct
- Caussenard de la Lozère, extinct
- Caussenarde des Garrigues (→ Caussenarde des Garrigues , French)
- Causses du Lot (→ Causse du Lot , French)
- Champagne, extinct
- Charmoise (meat sheep, → Charmoise , French)
- Charollais (→ Mouton Charollais , French)
- Châtillonais, extinct
- Choletais, extinct
- Commune des Alpes, → Préalpes du Sud , not recognized
- Corbières, extinct
- Corse (→ Corse , French)
- Cotentin (→ Cotentin , French)
- Crevant, extinct
- Est à laine Mérinos (→ Est à laine Mérinos , French)
- Flamand, extinct
- Franconie, extinct
- Gascon, extinct
- Grivette (→ Grivette , French)
- Ile-de-France sheep (→ Île-de-France , French)
- INRA 401 or "Romane" (→ INRA 401 , French)
- Larzac, extinct
- Laucan sheep
- Lacaune meat sheep (→ Lacaune viande , French)
- Laucane milk sheep (→ Lacaune lait , French)
- Lauraguais, extinct
- Landaise (→ Brebis landaise , French)
- Landes de Bretagne (→ Mouton des Landes de Bretagne , French)
- Limousine (→ Limousine , French)
- Lourdaise (→ Lourdaise , French)
- Maine à Tête Blanche, extinct
- Manech tête noire (→ Manech tête noire , French)
- Manech tête rousse (→ Manech tête rousse , French)
- Marchois, extinct
- Marron des Aravis (→ Mouton marron des Aravis , French), not recognized
- Mérinos champenois, extinct
- Mérinos d'Arles (→ Mérinos d'Arles , French)
- Mérinos de la Camargue, extinct
- Mérinos de Mauchamp, extinct
- Mérinos du Naz, extinct
- Mérinos Précoce (→ Mérinos Précoce , French)
- Montagne noire (→ Montagne noire , French)
- Morvandelle, extinct
- Mourerous (→ Mourerous , French)
- Moutons à tête noire, extinct
- Noire du Velay (→ Noire du Velay , French)
- Ouessantschaf (dwarf sheep)
- Petite Manech , = "Gorri Tipia", = "Xaxi Ardia" (→ Xaxi Ardia , French), not recognized
- Picard, extinct
- PréAlpes du Sud or “Commune des Alpes” (→ Préalpes du Sud , French), not recognized
- Raiole (→ Raïole , French)
- Rambouillet-Merino (→ Mérinos de Rambouillet , French)
- Rava (→ Rava , French)
- Novels, → INRA 401
- Rouge de l'Ouest (→ Rouge de l'Ouest , French)
- Rouge du Roussillon (→ Rouge du Roussillon , French)
- Roussillon Merino, extinct
- Roussin de la Hague (→ Roussin de la Hague , French)
- Ruthenois, extinct
- Ségala, extinct
- Soissonais, extinct
- Solo note (→ solo note , French)
- St. Quentin, extinct
- Tarasconnaise (→ Tarasconnaise , French)
- Thônes et Marthod (→ Thônes et Marthod , French)
- Trun (meat sheep), extinct
- Vendé sheep (→ Mouton vendéen , French)
- Xaxi Ardia, → Petite Manech
Iceland
Italy
Croatia
- Cigaja
- Creser sheep
- Dalmatian pramenka
- Dubrovnik Ruda
- Istrian sheep
- Krk sheep
- Lika pramenka
- Pag sheep
- Rab sheep
Netherlands
- Drenthe heather sheep
- Swifter (meat sheep)
- Texelaar
- Zwartbles (meat sheep)
Norway
Austria
- Alpine stone sheep
- Brown mountain sheep
- Dachstein sheep (Tyrolean stone sheep)
- Carinthian sheep
- Carniolan stone sheep
- Montafon stone sheep
- Swifter sheep (meat sheep)
- Forest sheep
- Tyrolean mountain sheep
- Tyrolean stone sheep
Poland
Russia
Sweden
Switzerland
- Bündner Oberland sheep
- Engadine sheep
- Walliser black-nosed sheep
- Valais landscape
- White alpine sheep
- Saas mother
- Black-brown mountain sheep
Spain
- Churraschaf
- Latxa (Basque Country and Navarre)
- Merino sheep (fine wool sheep )
- Merino meat sheep
Hungary
Ukraine
- Carpathian mountain sheep
- Ascanian sheep
- Fine woolly askani sheep
- Askania Karakulschawarzschaf
- Socil sheep
United Kingdom
- cheviot
- Clun Forest sheep
- Cotswold sheep
- Dorset meat sheep
- Easy care
- Hampshire Down
- Herdwick
- Jacob sheep
- Leicester sheep
- Lincoln sheep
- Lleyn sheep
- Portland sheep
- Romney sheep
- Ryeland sheep
- Scottish Blackface
- Shetland sheep
- Shropshire sheep (meat sheep)
- Soay sheep
- Swaledale
- St. Kilda sheep
- Southdown sheep
- Suffolk sheep
- Teeswater sheep
- Wensleydale
- Wiltshire Horn Sheep
Africa
- Damara sheep (Egypt, Namibia)
- Dorper sheep
- Dorset Horn
- Cameroon sheep (hair sheep)
- Somali sheep (Blackhead Persian)
- West African dwarf sheep
Asia
America
- Barbados Blackbelly (Caribbean)
- Criollo sheep
- Debouillet
- Katahdin sheep
- Targhee
Australia and Oceania
- Coolalee
- Coopworth
- Corriedale (sheep) (New Zealand)
- Elliottdale
- Polwarth
- White Suffolk
Regional assignment not known
-
HeiKaMuSo hybrid of four races
- Gray Horned Heidschnucke (Landschaf)
- White Horned Heidschnucke
- White hornless Heidschnucke ( Moorschnucke )
- Skudde
See also
Footnotes
- ↑ Standard de la race ARDENNAIS ROUX. ( Memento of the original from December 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Standard de la race ARDENNAIS TACHETE. ( Memento of the original from December 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Ardense voskop ( Memento of the original dated December 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , in: Steunpunt Levend Erfgoed
- ↑ Christina Weimann: Sheep breeds. (pdf, 2.93 MB) (No longer available online.) In: www.uni-giessen.de. Oberer Harthof, teaching and research station of the Institute for Animal Breeding and Pet Genetics, Justus Liebig University Giessen, August 28, 2007, archived from the original on February 22, 2014 ; Retrieved December 4, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Miika Tapio: Origin and maintenance of genetic diversity in northern european sheep . Faculty of Science, Department of Biology, University of Oulu, 2006, ISBN 951-42-8234-5 , ISSN 0355-3191 (English, abstract , PDF file, 2.9 MB [accessed November 19, 2014] English ; Academic dissertation to be presented, with the assent of the Faculty of Science of the University of Oulu, for public defense in Kuusamonsali (Auditorium YB210), Linnanmaa, on November 10th, 2006, at 12 noon).
- Breeds from species: Sheep. In: DAD-IS - Domestic Animal Diversity Information System. FAO, accessed December 4, 2014 .
- ^ Ardennais Roux / Belgium
- ↑ Mouton Laitier Belge / Belgium
- ↑ Entre-Sambre-et-Meuse / Belgium
- ↑ Houtlandschaap / Belgium
- ^ Kempens Schaap / Belgium
- ↑ Lakens Schaap / Belgium
- ^ Mergelland Schaap / Belgium
- ↑ Vlaams Kuddeschaap / Belgium
- ^ Vlaams Schaap / Belgium
- ^ Alfort / France
- ^ Alpine / France
- ^ Ardes / France
- ^ Artois / France
- ^ Aure-Campan / France
- ↑ Avranchin / France
- ↑ Barégeoise / France
- ^ Basco-Béarnaise / France
- ^ Belle Ile / France
- ↑ Berrichon de l'Indre / France
- ^ Berrichon Du Cher / France
- ^ Bizet / France
- ↑ Blanc Du Massif Central / France
- ↑ Bleu du Maine / France
- ^ Boischaut / France
- ↑ Boulonnaise / France
- ↑ Brenne / France
- ^ Brigasque / France
- ↑ Cambrai / France
- ^ Campan / France
- ^ Castillonnaise / France
- ^ Cauchois / France
- ^ Caussenard de la Lozère / France
- ^ Caussenarde des Garrigues / France
- ^ Causses du Lot / France
- ^ Champagne / France
- ↑ Charmoise / France
- ↑ Mouton charollais / France
- ^ Châtillonais / France
- ↑ Choletais / France
- ^ Corbières / France
- ^ Corse / France
- ↑ Cotentin / France
- ^ Crevant / France
- ↑ Est à Laine Mérinos / France
- ↑ Flamand / France
- ^ Franconie / France
- ^ Gascon / France
- ↑ Grivette / France
- ^ Ile-de-France / France
- ↑ Larzac
- ↑ Lacaune / France
- ^ Lacaune Viande / France
- ^ Lacaune Lait / France
- ^ Lauraguais / France
- ↑ Landaise / France
- ^ Landes de Bretagne / France
- ^ Limousine / France
- ↑ Lourdaise / France
- ^ Maine à Tête Blanche / France
- ↑ Manech Tete Noire / France
- ↑ Manech Tete Rousse / France
- ↑ Marchois / France
- ↑ Mérinos champenois / France
- ↑ Mérinos d'Arles / France
- ↑ Mérinos de la Camargue / France
- ↑ Mérinos de Mauchamp / France
- ↑ Mérinos you Naz / France
- ↑ Mérinos précoce / France
- ↑ Morvandelle / France
- ↑ Mourerous / France
- ^ Moutons à tête noire / France
- ^ Noir du Velay / France
- ^ Ouessant / France
- ^ Petite Manech / France
- ↑ Picard / France
- ↑ Préalpes du Sud / France
- ↑ Raiole / France
- ↑ Mérinos de Rambouillet / France
- ^ Rava / France
- ^ Romane / France
- ^ Rouge De L'ouest / France
- ^ Rouge Du Roussillon / France
- ^ Roussillon Merino / France
- ^ Roussin De La Hague / France
- ↑ Ruthénois / France
- ^ Ségala / France
- ↑ Soissonais / France
- ↑ Solognote / France
- ↑ St. Quentin / France
- ^ Tarasconnaise / France
- ^ Thônes et Marthod / France
- ^ Trun / France
- ^ Mouton vendéen / France