Chios Sheep

The Chios is a breed of sheep commonly accepted to have originated on the Greek island of Chios, bred mainly for milk used in cheeses such as feta, batzos and manouri. It carries black spots on the ears, nose, belly, legs and around the eyes; ewes weigh 48 to 70 kilograms and rams 66 to 91 kilograms, both sexes usually horned though ewes may be polled and rams carry large spiral horns. Ewes can produce two lamb crops a year, averaging 1.5 to 2.3 lambs per litter, and yield roughly 265 to 600 pounds of milk over a typical 210-day lactation; the world population grew from about 16,000 to 51,860 head between 1983 and 2007. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/