Quality of wool of Chennai red sheep, vembur sheep, neelagiri sheep,deccani,trichy black sheep
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Answer: Chennai red
This is distributed in Chennai, Kancheepuram, Villupuram, Thiruvannamalai districts of Tamilnadu.
It is meat purpose breed.
Majority are purple in color.
Certain animals have colored stripes on their forehead.
Adult male average body weight 36kg.
Adult females average body weight 24 kg.
Vembur:
It is distributed in Vembur, melakarandhai, keezha karandhai, nagalapuram regions, Tuticorin and Virudhunagar districts of Tamilnadu.
It is meat purpose breed.
These are taller breeds.
They have white color skin with red color spots over their body.
Ears are drooped out.
Tail is smaller and slender.
Adult males are found with horns and absence of horns in case of females.
Adult males average body weight 35kgs.
Adult females average body weight 28kgs.
Neelagiri:
These are distributed in Neelagiri district of Tamilnadu.
It is wool purpose breed.
They are medium weighed animal.
Majority are found in white colors.
Certain goats are found with purple spots on their body and face.
Ears are broad and drooped out.
Females are without horns.
Adult male average body weight 31kg.
Adult female average body weight 31kg.
Trichy black:
These are distributed in Trichy, Perambalur, Dharmapuri and Salem districts of Tamilnadu.
It is wool purpose breed.
These are smaller breeds.
Black coloured all over the body.
Adult males are found with horns and females without horns.
Ears are smaller, facing forward and downwards.
Adult male average body weight 26kg.
Adult female average body weight 19kg.
Deccani:
Deccani breed is an admixture of the woolly types of Rajasthan and the hairy types of Andra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu.
It is found in Bombay-Deccan region and parts of Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh States.
The sheep is small and hardy, and well adapted to poor pastoral conditions.
It possesses a coloured fleece, black and gray colours being more dominant.
The average annual yield of wool being 4.54 kg per sheep.
The wool is of a low grade and is a mixture of hair and fine fibres, mostly consumed for the manufacture of rough blankets (Kambals).
The flocks are maintained chiefly for mutton.
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