Blacknose Sheep

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The breed originates in the mountains of the canton of Valais – from which its name derives – and of the Bernese Oberland.

It is documented as far back as the fifteenth century, but the present German name was not used before 1884; the breed standard dates from 1962. There was some cross-breeding with imported sheep, in the nineteenth century of Bergamasca and Cotswold stock,  and in the twentieth-century of the Southdown breed.[1]: 280 

Characteristics
The Schwarznasenschaf is a mountain breed, well adapted to grazing on the stony pastures of its area of origin.
Both rams and ewes are horned.

Use
The Valais Blacknose is a dual-purpose breed reared for both meat and wool.

The wool is coarse: fibre diameter averages approximately 38 microns, and staple length is 100 mm or more.

The annual yield is about 4 kg per head.