Most Popular Sheep Breeds of India

 Best Sheep Breeds of India 

        My dear friends here the discussion is about important sheep (Ovis aries) breeds of India. Here we cover best 34 Indian sheep breeds. By the way for your  knowledge NBAGR (ICAR) declared 44 registered sheep breeds present in India (latest information of 2018 census), before of that 43 breeds are in India that mean 1 new breeds are added by NBAGR. And of course you have to know sheep population in India is 74.3 million (almost 7.4crore). Rest of the breeds which are not included here are kenguri, kilakarsal, ramnad, tiruchi black, vembur, katchaikatty black, chevaadu, kendrapara, panchali and kajali. 


Jammu & Kashmir : 

1) Gurez : Utility Carpet wool.

Gurez sheep breed

2) Poonchi : Carpet wool.

poonchi sheep breed


3) Bhakarwal : Carpet wool.

bhakarwal sheep breed


4) Changthangi : Carpet wool.

changthangi sheep breed


5) Karna : Carpet wool.

karnah sheep breed


Himachal Pradesh : 

6) Gaddi : Carpet wool.

gaddi sheep breed


7) Rampur Bushair : Carpet wool.

rampur bushair sheep breed


Uttar Pradesh : 

8) Jalauni : Meat & carpet wool.

jalauni sheep breed


9) Muzaffarnagri : Meat & Carpet wool.

muzaffarnagri sheep breed


Rajasthan : 

10) Chokla : Utility Carpet wool.

chokla sheep breed


11) Magra : Carpet wool. 

magra sheep breed


12) Malpura : Meat & carpet wool. 

malpura sheep breed


13) Sonadi : Meat & carpet wool. 

sonadi sheep breed


14) Jaisalmeri : Meat & carpet wool. 

jaisalmeri sheep breed


15) Pugal : Meat & carpet wool.
pugal sheep  breed


16) Nali : Utility Carpet wool. 

nali sheep breed


Gujrat : 

17) Marwari : Meat & carpet wool. 

marwari sheep breed


18) Patanwali : Carpet wool. 

patanwali sheep breed


Maharastra : 


19) Chotta Nagpuri : Meat & carpet wool. 

chotta nagpuri sheep breed


20) Deccani : Utility Meat only.

deccani sheep breed


Orissa : 


21) Balangir : Meat & carpet wool.

balangir sheep breed


22) Ganjam : Meat & carpet wool. 

ganjam sheep breed


West Bengal : 

23) Garole : Meat & Carpet wool.

garole sheep breed
                                    

Sikkim : 


24) Bonpala : Meat & carpet wool. 

bonpala sheep breed


25) Tibetan : Meat & carpet wool. 

tibetan sheep breed


Bihar : 

26) Shahabadi : Meat & carpet wool.

shahabadi sheep breed


Andhra Pradesh : 

27) Nellore : Utility Meat only. 

nellore sheep breed


Karnataka : 

28) Mandya or Bannur : Meat.

mandya sheep breed


29) Hassan : Meat. 
 
hassan sheep breed


30) Bellary : Meat & carpet wool. 

bellary sheep breed


Tamil Nadu : 

31) Madras Red : Meat & carpet wool. 

madras red sheep breed


32) Mecheri : Meat.

mecheri sheep breed


33) Coimbatore : Meat & carpet wool. 

coimbatore sheep breed


34) Nilgiri : Meat & carpet wool. 

nilgiri sheep breed



Here we cover some important sheep breeds. If you want to know about other livestock Breeds then follow the previous veterinary blog by click here. Here we don't give detailed information of every sheep breed, if you want the detailed of any sheep breed then you can knock us. Thank You have a good day.