Table 1. Size of population of dairy sheep, type of milk recording and number of recorded ewes in ICAR
member countries and other countries.

 

SIZE OF POPULATION :

OFFICIAL MILK RECORDING
(A or B or E nomenclature)

OTHER MILK RECORDING
(D nomenclature)

Average size

COUNTRY

TOTAL NUMBER OF FEMALES

Number of recorded females (% population)

Number of recorded flocks (year)

Number of recorded females (% population)

Number of recorded flocks (year)

of the recorded flocks

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

BELGIUM

e





 

 

 

CYPRUS

180,800

3,900
(2.2%)

?
(2000)

 

 

 

CZECH REP.

375

258
(68.8%)

24
(2001)

 

 

11

DENMARK

1,000

334
(33.4%)

4
(2001)

 

 

84

ENGLAND

?

692

1
(2002)

 

 

692

FINLAND

-

-

-

 

 

 

FRANCE

1,349,000

292,424
(21.7%)

811
(2001)

595,336
(44.0%)

1,634
(2000)

349

GERMANY

21,000

1,856
(8.8 %)

151
(2000)

 

 

12

GREECE

9,268,700

59,479
(0.6%)

665
(2000)

 

 

89

ISRAEL

46,200

14,975
(32.4%)

22
(2002)

 

 

681

ITALY

6,147,500

461,811
(7.5%)

3,038
(2001)

 

 

152

LUXEMBURG

-

-

-

 

 

 

MACEDONIA

1,086,000

2,000
(0.2%)

13
(2001)

 

 

154

NORWAY

-

-

-

 

 

 

SLOVAK REP

211,260

14,389
(6.8%)

90
(2000)

 

 

160

SLOVENIA

3,000

1,456
(48.5%)

32
(2001)

 

 

46

SOUTH AFRICA

79

-

-

 

 

 

SPAIN

3,322,300

178,454
(5.4%)

416
(2001)

65,000
(2,0%)

210
(2001)

429

SWITZERLAND

TUNISIA

4,000

27,000

2,793
(69.8%)
2,357
(8.7%)

190
(2001)
10
(2000)



 

15

USA

-

-

-