Santa Inês sheep

Santa Inês
Conservation status
  • FAO (2007): not at risk
  • DAD-IS (2026): not at risk
Other namesPelo de Boi de Bahia
Country of originBrazil
Distribution
  • Bolivia
  • Malaysia
  • Paraguay
  • Uruguay
Traits
Weight
  • Male:
    100 kg
  • Female:
    75 kg
Height
  • Male:
    65 cm
  • Female:
    60 cm
Horn statuspolled

The Santa Inês is a Brazilian breed of domestic sheep. It is a hair sheep, growing hair rather than wool, and is reared both for meat and for hides.

It is the principal hair sheep breed of the country, and is larger and faster-growing than either of the other two important hair sheep breeds of north-eastern Brazil, the Brazilian Somali and the Morada Nova.

It was bred in the 1940s in Bahia State, in north-eastern Brazil, but its exact origins are not clear. It has a greater resistance to infection by gastrointestinal nematodes than European meat breeds such as the Île-de-France and the Suffolk.

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