Damani (sheep)
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The Damani is a thin tail, meat and wool
Wool
Wool is the textile fiber obtained from sheep and certain other animals, including cashmere from goats, mohair from goats, qiviut from muskoxen, vicuña, alpaca, camel from animals in the camel family, and angora from rabbits....

 breed which is found in the Dera Ismail Khan district and part of Bannu district in NWF Province
North-West Frontier Province
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa , formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province and various other names, is one of the four provinces of Pakistan, located in the north-west of the country...

 of Pakistan
Pakistan
Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...

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Characteristics

They are small to medium with a white body coat with a black or tan head and camel colored legs. The wool yield is 1.5 kg (3.3 lb) with coarse fiber (44 micrometres diameter). They have small ears. The udder and teats are well developed.

At maturity, rams grow to 61 cm (24 in) at the withers and weigh 32 kg (70.5 lb) while ewes grow to 53 cm (20.9 in) at the withers and weigh 27 kg (59.5 lb). On average and at birth, rams weigh 2.7 kg (6 lb) and ewes weigh 2.5 kg (5.5 lb). Average litter size is one. Average milk production during lactation is 80 kg (176.4 lb) over about 120 days with 5.8% fat. The number of members of the Damani has decreased from over one million in 1986 to approximately 600,000 in 2006.
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