Key	Country	Year	Breed or population (Name)	Dairy sheep breeds or populations recorded in ICAR member countries				Milk yield: methods and recording intervals (according to international regulations for milk recording in sheep)				Information on the management of the flocks subject to official milk recording			Breeds or populations recorded in ICAR member countries in other type of milk recording4				Notes	E-mail of the responsible
				Size of the population (Estimation)		Recorded population									Size of the population (Estimates)		Recorded population (Estimation)
				Number of flocks	Number of ewes1	Number of flocks	Number of ewes1	Percentage of A4, A5, A6, B4, B5, B6, C4, C5, C6 (precise if necessary)2	Percentage of AT , BT, CT (precise if necessary)2	Percentage of AC, BC, CC (precise if necessary)2	Percentage of E4, E5, E6, ET, EC (precise if necessary)2	Breeding system3 (1) Milking from lambing (2) Milking after a suckling period	If system 2). Average length of the suckling period (in days)	Percentage of official recorded flocks in machine milking	Number of flocks	Number of ewes5	Number of flocks	Number of ewes5
1	Belgium (Wallonia Region)	2004	Mouton laitier belge - Belgian dairy sheep	13	1000	6	481		100 % AT4			(1) = 1 flock / (2) = 5 flocks	37	0			1	176
2	Belgium (Wallonia Region)	2004	Lacaune x Mouton laitier Belge (crosses)		200		20		see above			see above	see above						These ewes are included in the flocks of Mouton laitier belge
3	Belgium (Wallonia Region)	2005	Mouton laitier belge	13	1000	0	0										1	181
4	Belgium (Wallonia Region)	2006	Mouton laitier belge	12	1000	0	0
5	Belgium (Wallonia Region)	2007	Moutons laitiers (all breeds)	13	1000	1	200												1 herd controlled 1 time in the middle of the lactations / not official / not significant	jf.duckerts@mrw.wallonie.be
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¹ Inventory at lambing in case of one lambing per year or inventory at a fixed date in the other cases
² See the definition of official milk recording method on the ICAR website (www.icar.org) in the part dedicated to the milk recording of sheep WG : “Recording guidelines”, section 2.2
³ Answer (1) or (2), if only one system is used (per breed or in the country) as regards lactation ; or percentage of ewes in system (1) and system (2), if used simultaneously.
⁴ Other type of milk recording : it may be the D method or another method : See the ICAR website (www.icar.org) in the part dedicated to the milk recording of sheep WG : “recording guidelines”, section 2.2
⁵ Inventory at lambing in case of one lambing per year or inventory at a fixed date in the other cases