About Valais Blacknose Sheep

Valais Blacknose sheep come from the Valais region of southern Switzerland. They are a rare dual-purpose breed that is raised both for meat and for wool. Both rams and ewes are horned and they have a very distinct “black-hole face” – their faces, eyes, and noses are all black surrounded by long white wool.

Valais Blacknose sheep are well adapted life in the high mountains and they graze even on the steepest, stoniest slopes.

Other than Switzerland Valais Blacknose sheep can be found in Germany and recently 10 ewes and one ram where imported into Scotland by a rancher named Raymond Irvine.