List of sheep breeds
This is an ordered list on the origin of domestic sheep breeds.
European breeds
Belgium
- Beltex
- Houtland Sheep
Germany
(according to the listing in the national sheep breeding associations )
- Merino breeds Merino meat sheep
- Merinolandschaf
- Merino long wool sheep
- Berrichonne du Cher
- Blue -headed sheep
- Charollaisschaf
- Hampshire Sheep
- Ile de France sheep
- Leash sheep ( new breeding direction)
- Leash sheep (old Zuchtrichtung )
- Black headed sheep
- Suffolk Sheep
- Texel sheep
- White -headed sheep
- Zwartbles
- East Frisian dairy sheep
- Walachenschaf
- Bentheim landscapes
- Charmoise Hill
- Coburg Fox Sheep
- Gotland sheep
- Good sheep
- Gray Horned Heath sheep
- Jacob sheep
- Kerry Hill
- Ouessant
- Rauwolliges Pomeranian Country Sheep
- Rhönschaf
- Romanov sheep
- Scottish Blackface
- Shropshire Sheep
- Skudde
- Soay sheep
- Woodsheep
- White Horned Heath sheep
- White Polled Heath sheep = Moorschnucke
- Zackelschaf
- Zaupelschaf = Cikta Sheep
- Alpine Stone Sheep
- Brown Mountain
- Brillenschaf
- Krainer Stone Sheep
- Black Brown Mountain = Jura sheep or Elbschaf
- Tyrolean Stone Sheep
- Valais black nose sheep
- White mountain sheep (Bavarian mountain sheep )
- Dorper
- Cameroon sheep
- Nolana sheep meat
- Nolana - country sheep
- Wiltshire Horn
France
- Berrichone du Cher ( Mutton )
- Chamonis ( Mutton )
- Ile de France (sheep)
- Lacaune sheep ( sheep milk )
- Ouessant
- Pauillac sheep ( ewes )
- Rouge de Roussillon
Iceland
- Iceland sheep
Croatia
- Cigaja
- Cres sheep
- Dalmatian Pramenka
- Dubrovnik Ruda
- Istrian sheep
- Krk sheep
- Lika- Pramenka
- Pager sheep
- Raber sheep
Netherlands
- Swifter ( Mutton )
- Texelaar
- Zwartbles ( Mutton )
Austria
- Alpine Stone Sheep
- Brown Mountain
- Dachstein sheep ( Tyrolean Stone Sheep )
- Carinthian sheep
- Krainer Stone Sheep
- Montafon Stone Sheep
- Woodsheep
- Tyrolean mountain sheep
- Tyrolean Stone Sheep
Poland
- Ostpreußische Skudde - landscapes
- Rauwolliges Pomeranian Country Sheep
Russia
- Romanowschaf
Sweden
- Gotland sheep
- Good sheep
Switzerland
- Valais black nose sheep
- Pennine landscapes
- White Alpine sheep
- Black Brown Mountain
Spain
- Churraschaf
- Latxa ( Basque Country and Navarre )
- Merino sheep (fine wool sheep )
- Merino meat sheep
Hungary
- Zackelschaf
Ukraine
- Carpathian mountain sheep
- Askaniaschaf
- Feinwölliges Askaniaschaf
- Askania Karakulschawarzschaf
- Sokilschaf
United Kingdom
- Cheviot
- Cotswoldschaf
- Hampshire Down
- Herdwick
- Jacob sheep
- Leicester sheep
- Lincoln sheep
- Lleyn sheep
- Scottish Blackface
- Shetland sheep
- Shropshire sheep ( ewes )
- Soayschaf
- Swaledale
- St. Kilda sheep
- Suffolk Sheep
- Wiltshire Horn Sheep
- Dorset ewes
Africa
- Damara sheep (Egypt, Namibia)
- Dorper
- Dorset Horn
- Cameroon sheep (hair sheep)
- Somaliaschaf ( Blackhead Persian )
Asia
- Awassi
- Bakhtiari (sheep)
- Dumba (sheep)
- Fat-tailed sheep
- Karakulschaf
- Kermani (sheep)
America
- Barbados Black Belly Sheep ( Caribbean)
- Criolloschaf
Australasia
- Corriedale (sheep ) (New Zealand )
Regional mapping not known
- HeiKaMuSo intersection of four races Gray Horned Heath sheep ( sheep country )
- White Horned Heath sheep
- White Polled Heath sheep ( Moorschnucke )
- Skudde