Bizet
Bizet is a French sheep breed from the Massif Central, especially areas such as Cantal and Haute-Loire. It has a pale fleece contrasted with a dark or slate-colored face and legs, giving it a clear mountain-breed appearance. Bizet sheep are resilient grazing animals, historically suited to rough uplands, variable weather, and mixed meat and wool use rather than intensive finishing.
Current Bizet flocks may be kept for regional identity, landscape grazing, lamb production, and rare-breed conservation. The breed should be selected for hardiness, mothering, foot soundness, and maintenance of its recognizable dark-faced type. Wool has character rather than high finewool value, and lamb output depends heavily on grazing management and ewe condition. Breeders should record flock origin and avoid unplanned crossing with heavier meat breeds if conservation is the goal. The breed's strength is local adaptation, not maximum carcass yield.
Colors: Badgerface, Black, Blackbelly, Broken, Brown, Gray, Grey, Gulmoget, Katmoget, Moorit, Piebald, Red, Roan, Silver, Solid, Spotted, Tan, White, White with Black Points, White with Brown Points
