The neck should be well set on the shoulders following on to a straight back and well sprung ribs; the tail is naturally short and narrow. Both sexes should be upstanding on clean fine-boned legs, with naturally small feet. It’s whole appearance is graceful and well balanced; they are extremely agile and fleet footed.

Light brown or moorit in colour, they have definite mouflon pattern markings to include white underparts around the eyes, lower jaw, belly, knees and inside lower leg and tail together with a rump patch.

This breed description is flexible enough to allow the preservation of some diversity in the breed, this is especially important as the breed has a very small gene pool having been reduced to such a small population in the 1970s.

A process called 'card grading' is used to assess whether a sheep meets the breed description. Please see dedicated page with details on card grading, a downloadable form and the typical variations in the breed.