Sheep and goat breeds

Question 1

Milk type an prolific sheep breeds:

Answer 1

High potential: (200-500kg)
- Friesland, british milk sheep, Awassi (israel), chios (greece), Laucavne (france), sarda (italy)

Average/good potential (90-200kg)
- Churra (spain), beglika (bulgaria), bergmasca (italy), Comisana (italy), cyprus, Lacha (spain)

Low potential (50-90kg)
- Awassi, Barbary, Bordaleiro, Manchega, Serres

Question 2

Meat type sheep breed:

Answer 2

English long-wool mutton breeds:
- Leicester, Lincoln, Romney, Costwold, Cheviot, Wensleydale

English short-wool mutton breeds:
- soth down, suffolk, wilshire, hampshire down, oxford down, shropshire down

Others:

• German: black faced, white faced landsheep
• French: Ile de france, berrichon du cher, charollais, bleu du maine

Question 3

Fur producing sheep breeds:

Answer 3

Africana, damara, masai, somali, uda, royal white, rabo largo

Question 4

Milk type goat breeds

Answer 4

Saanen, alpine, nubian, toggenburg

Question 5

Wool producing sheep breeds

Answer 5

• Cloth wool: merino sheep
• Combined fine wool merino breeds: rombouillet
• Mutton merino: leicester rosses, merino precoce, german meat merino, merino landrace, south-african meat merino
• prolific merino: boorola, cormo, dormer
• wool producing sheep breeds: merino sheep, devon, old norwegian sheep and spel sheep

Question 6

Meat and wool producing goat breeds

Answer 6

Meat:
- boer goat, anglo-nubian goat

Wool:

• Mohair/pashmina: angora, american cashmere, mohair
• central asian pashmina (cashmere) goats: china, iran, afganistan, russia, nepal, mongolian, tibetan goats

Fiber/wool producing:
- angora goat, cashmere goat, nigora goat, pygora goat, hexi cashmere, don goat