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
7	Germany	2009	Lacaune	1	104	1	36				100	(1)		100						franz-josef.romberg@dlr.rlp.de
6	Germany	2009	Ostfriesisches Milchschaf	510	8100	53	602	34	29		37	(1)88% (2)12%	50-70	46						franz-josef.romberg@dlr.rlp.de
5	Germany	2008	Lacaune	1	118	1	39				100	(1)		100						franz-josef.romberg@dlr.rlp.de
4	Germany	2008	Ostfriesisches Milchschaf	530	8300	57	686	54	14		32	(1)90% (2)10%	50-70	39						franz-josef.romberg@dlr.rlp.de
3	Germany	2007	Ostfriesisches Milchschaf	620	9000	77	705	64	8		28	(1) 88% (2) 12 %	42-60	33						franz-josef.romberg@dlr.rlp.de
2	Germany	2006	Ostfriesisches Milchschaf	890	12900	92	1418	33	3		64	(1) 94 % (2) 6%	35-46	45						franz-josef.romberg@dlr.rlp.de
1	Germany	2005	Ostfriesisches Milchschaf	1320	18600	111	1259	54	4		42	(1) 86 % (2) 14 %	50-60	46						franz-josef.romberg@dlr.rlp.de

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