Texel sheep

Texel
Conservation status
Other names
  • Texelaar
  • Texelse
  • Improved Texel
  • Verbeterde Texelse
Country of originNetherlands
Usemeat
Traits
Weight
  • Male:
    average 95 kg[2]
  • Female:
    average 75 kg[2]
Height
  • Male:
    average 70 cm[2]
  • Female:
    average 68 cm[2]
Wool colourwhite
Face colourwhite
Horn statuspolled
Three-year-old ram from the island of Texel
British Texel ewe with twin lambs near Erpingham in Norfolk

The Texel is a Dutch breed of domestic sheep originally from the island of Texel.[3] It is a heavy and muscular sheep, and produces a lean meat carcass. It is polled, clean-faced and clean-legged, with white face and wool. The fibre diameter of the wool averages about 32 μ, with a staple length of 8–15 cm; it is used mainly for knitting and hosiery wools.[4]: 932 

The Texel is distributed in approximately thirty-five countries in Europe, the Americas and Oceania, with estimated populations of over 5000 head in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, the Czech Republic and the United Kingdom.[5]

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  3. ^ "Texel". Breeds of Livestock. Oklahoma State University, De. of Animal Science. Archived from the original on 24 December 2009. Retrieved 4 May 2009.
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