Criollo sheep are the highlands of Colombia, Ecuador,
Mexico, Bolivia, Peru, Venezuela and Guatemala over hundreds of years. They are
known by some other names such as Venezuelan, Uruguayan, Tarhumara, Colombian,
Lucero, Creole, Chilludo, and Pamba. Spanish settlers brought the Churra with
them in the mid sixteenth Century. The Churra is believed to be the ancestor of
the modern day Criollo sheep. Today, they are raised mainly for meat
production.
They are relatively small sheep and they are generally black
and also white or pied. They have a coarse fleece of carpet-type wool. The rams
on average weight around 32.8 kg at maturity. And average live body weight of
the mature ewes is about 26.1 kg.
About Criollo Sheep
