Which Schaap breeds come in Wit?

Club breed standards describe Wit for the Dorper, Hampshire, Katahdin, Leicester Longwool, Lincoln, Merino, Oost-Friese Melkschaap, Romney, St. Croix, Suffolk en Wensleydale.

Schaap color

Wit

White hair, feathers, skin, horn or shell. A white coat can still have dark eyes and dark skin; compare albino and leucistic.

28 Schaap breeds list Wit. It is in a club standard for 12 breeds.

Breeds whose standards accept Wit

Breed	DORPER SA	HAMPSHIRE DSBA	KHSI	LLSBA US	LINCOLN LLSBA	MERINO SA	LSZV MV	AMERICAN ROMNEY	SCHSB	SCHSIA	USSA	WLSBA
DorperZwartkop	Standaard (“A white sheep with black confined to the head and neck”)	No ruling	No ruling	No ruling	No ruling	No ruling	No ruling	No ruling	No ruling	No ruling	No ruling	No ruling
DorperWit	Standaard (“A white sheep”)	No ruling	No ruling	No ruling	No ruling	No ruling	No ruling	No ruling	No ruling	No ruling	No ruling	No ruling
Hampshire	No ruling	Standaard (“White in colour”)	No ruling	No ruling	No ruling	No ruling	No ruling	No ruling	No ruling	No ruling	No ruling	No ruling
Katahdin	No ruling	No ruling	Standaard (“any color or pattern”)	No ruling	No ruling	No ruling	No ruling	No ruling	No ruling	No ruling	No ruling	No ruling
Leicester Longwool	No ruling	No ruling	No ruling	Standaard (“clean and white”)	No ruling	No ruling	No ruling	No ruling	No ruling	No ruling	No ruling	No ruling
Lincoln	No ruling	No ruling	No ruling	No ruling	Standaard (“white wool”)	No ruling	No ruling	No ruling	No ruling	No ruling	No ruling	No ruling
Merino	No ruling	No ruling	No ruling	No ruling	No ruling	Standaard (“white to slightly cream-coloured”)	No ruling	No ruling	No ruling	No ruling	No ruling	No ruling
Oost-Friese Melkschaap	No ruling	No ruling	No ruling	No ruling	No ruling	No ruling	Standaard (“einheitlich weiß”)	No ruling	No ruling	No ruling	No ruling	No ruling
Romney	No ruling	No ruling	No ruling	No ruling	No ruling	No ruling	No ruling	Standaard (“white”)	No ruling	No ruling	No ruling	No ruling
St. Croix	No ruling	No ruling	No ruling	No ruling	No ruling	No ruling	No ruling	No ruling	Standaard (“usually white”)	Standaard (“white hair sheep”)	No ruling	No ruling
Suffolk	No ruling	No ruling	No ruling	No ruling	No ruling	No ruling	No ruling	No ruling	No ruling	No ruling	Standaard (“clean white fleeces”)	No ruling
Wensleydale	No ruling	No ruling	No ruling	No ruling	No ruling	No ruling	No ruling	No ruling	No ruling	No ruling	No ruling	Standaard (“white”)

Breeds where Wit is a fault

Breed	BBSAI	DORPER SA	ASBA SOUTHDOWN
Barbados BlackbellyHoeven	Fout (“White hooves or hooves with white marks”)	No ruling	No ruling
DorperZwartkop · Hoeven	No ruling	Fout (“white hoofs are undesirable”)	No ruling
SouthdownHoeven	No ruling	No ruling	Fout (“Total white hooves are discriminated against”)

Breeds where Wit is disqualified or not accepted

Breed
Awassi
Cormo
Cotswold
Dorper
DorperHoeven
Dorset
Lacaune
Oost-Friese MelkschaapHoeven
Rambouillet
Shropshire
Southdown
Texelaar
TexelaarWit

Color changes

How Wit can appear or change over an animal's life.

Witchanges toGestippeld
Vacht · Progressief
Zwartchanges toWit
Vacht · Met de lichaamsconditie · can change back

See all Schaap colors, patterns and markings