Meat and mother sheep:
- Mountain sheep
For extensive animal husbandry and as a mother sheep for cross-breeding, hornless, 1.5–2.5 lambs on average
- Jura sheep
Black-brown mountain sheep, hornless, 1.7 lambs on average
- Texel
Buck as a sire for meat lamb production, hornless, 1.8 lambs on average
- Schwarzköpfiges Fleischschaf (Black-headed meat sheep)
Black-headed sheep, hornless, 1.2–1.7 lambs on average
- Suffolk
English meat breed, hornless, 1.4 lambs on average
- Merino landsheep
Hornless, 2.1 lambs on average
- Merino mutton sheep
Meat and wool are equally important breeding targets, pure white, hornless, 1.5–2.2 lambs on average
- Ile de France
High proportion of valuable parts, hornless, 1.6 lambs on average
Dairy sheep:
- East Frisian dairy sheep
Milk yield 550–650 litres/year, lactation period approx. 240 days, hornless, precocious, 2.3 lambs on average
- Lacaune
Milk yield 250 litres/year, lactation period approx. 5 months, hornless, 1.5 lambs on average
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