{"id":17001,"date":"2022-07-26T09:32:20","date_gmt":"2022-07-26T06:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lammasyhdistys.fi\/?page_id=17001"},"modified":"2022-08-24T10:34:15","modified_gmt":"2022-08-24T07:34:15","slug":"sheep-breeds-in-finland","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/lammasyhdistys.fi\/en\/sheep-breeds-in-finland\/","title":{"rendered":"Sheep breeds in Finland"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1248px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-padding-right:30px;--awb-padding-left:30px;--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:7.68%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:0px;--awb-spacing-left-large:0%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-spacing-right-medium:7.68%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:0%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><h1 data-fontsize=\"33\" data-lineheight=\"35px\" class=\"fusion-responsive-typography-calculated\" style=\"--fontSize:33; line-height: 1.06;\"><strong>Sheep breeds in Finland<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>In the year 2020, according to Natural Resources Institute Finland there were 140,200 sheep in Finland, of which 69,500 were ewes.<br \/>\nThe following graph shows breed distribution among lambed ewes that were tracked by animal recording:<\/p>\n<h1 data-fontsize=\"33\" data-lineheight=\"35px\" class=\"fusion-responsive-typography-calculated\" style=\"--fontSize:33; line-height: 1.06;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lammasyhdistys.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/tuotosuuhien_rotujakauma_2011_2019_b.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10664\" src=\"https:\/\/lammasyhdistys.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/tuotosuuhien_rotujakauma_2011_2019_b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1065\" height=\"464\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lammasyhdistys.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/tuotosuuhien_rotujakauma_2011_2019_b-300x131.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lammasyhdistys.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/tuotosuuhien_rotujakauma_2011_2019_b-768x335.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lammasyhdistys.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/tuotosuuhien_rotujakauma_2011_2019_b-1024x446.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/lammasyhdistys.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/tuotosuuhien_rotujakauma_2011_2019_b.jpg 1065w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1065px) 100vw, 1065px\" \/><\/a><\/h1>\n<p>The most common sheep breed in Finland is the Finnsheep. Other domestic breeds are Kainuu Grey and \u00c5land  sheep. Meat breeds raised in Finland include Texel, Oxford Down, Rygja and Dorset, with Suffolk, East Friesian, Gotland sheep and Dorper having been additionally introduced in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>The goal of sheep selective breeding is to improve both the quality of sheep products and the profitability of sheep farming.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<h1 data-fontsize=\"33\" data-lineheight=\"35px\" class=\"fusion-responsive-typography-calculated\" style=\"--fontSize:33; line-height: 1.06;\"><\/h1><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-17001","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lammasyhdistys.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lammasyhdistys.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lammasyhdistys.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lammasyhdistys.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lammasyhdistys.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17001"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lammasyhdistys.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17809,"href":"https:\/\/lammasyhdistys.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17001\/revisions\/17809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lammasyhdistys.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}