| 词条 | Valais Blacknose |
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| name = Valais Blacknose | image = Valais Blacknose Sheep.jpg | image_alt = | imagedimensions = | image_caption = | status = unknown | altname = Walliser Schwarznasenschaf | country = Switzerland | maleweight = 80–130 kg | femaleweight = 70–90 kg | maleheight = 75–83 cm | femaleheight = 72–78 cm{{r|bigi|page=281}} | woolcolor = white | facecolor = black | use = dual-purpose, meat and wool }} The Valais Blacknose, {{lang-de|Walliser Schwarznasenschaf|italic=no}}, is a breed of domestic sheep originating in the Valais region of Switzerland.{{r|dad}} It is a dual-purpose breed, raised both for meat and for wool.{{r|bigi|page=281}} HistoryThe 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. In the past there was some cross-breeding with imported sheep, in the nineteenth century of Bergamasca and Cotswold stock,{{r|cabi|page=940}} and in the twentieth century of the Southdown breed.{{r|bigi|page=280}} CharacteristicsThe Schwarznasenschaf is a mountain breed, well adapted to grazing on the stony pastures of its area of origin.{{r|cabi|page=940}} Both rams and ewes are horned.{{r|cabi|page=940}} UseThe 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.{{r|cabi|page=940}} The annual yield is about 4 kg per head.{{r|bigi|page=281}} References1. ^Valerie Porter, Lawrence Alderson, Stephen J.G. Hall, D. Phillip Sponenberg (2016). [https://books.google.it/books?id=2UEJDAAAQBAJ Mason's World Encyclopedia of Livestock Breeds and Breeding] (sixth edition). Wallingford: CABI. {{ISBN|9781780647944}}. . p. 280–281.[1][2]2. ^Breed data sheet: Walliser Schwarznasenschaf/Switzerland. Domestic Animal Diversity Information System of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Accessed September 2013. }} See also{{Commons category|Walliser Schwarznasenschaf}}
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