Sarda

An Italian breed indigenous to Sardinia and Italy's most economically important and most numerous sheep. It is kept throughout the island, in Lazio and Tuscany, and in other Mediterranean countries, especially Tunisia (as the Sicilo-Sarde).

Medium-sized: ewes average 63 cm and 42 kg, rams 71 cm and 59 kg. White, with woolless face and lower legs; ewes are polled and rams may have vestigial horns.

Kept mainly for milk: 100–180 kg in a 180-day lactation, mostly made into PDO pecorino sardo and pecorino romano. Meat is sold mostly as milk lamb at about 10 kg. It does well on lowland or mountain, under intensive, extensive or transhumant management.