Red Engadine
Red Engadine sheep are a Swiss mountain breed from the Engadine valley of Graubunden, also known in German as Engadiner Fuchsschaf, or Engadine fox sheep. Lambs are born a warm reddish brown and often lighten with age, leaving adults in shades from fox-red to pale brown or beige. The breed has a long head with a noticeably convex profile, long ears, and a light to medium frame suited to alpine grazing. It was historically a local multipurpose sheep rather than a high-output wool breed.
Small farms and conservation flocks keep Red Engadines for landscape grazing, lamb, specialty wool, and preservation of Swiss sheep diversity. They are active browsers as well as grazers, so fences should be reliable around young trees and gardens. Mountain hardiness does not remove the need for shelter from prolonged wet weather, timely shearing, and mineral feeding appropriate for sheep. Breeders usually watch color, head type, feet, fertility, and lamb vigor, because numbers outside the Alpine region can be limited.
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
