abstract:The Finnish Landrace or Finnsheep is a breed of domestic sheep which has a high incidence of multiple births – it is common for a ewe to have three, four, or even five lambs at once. In North America, several instances of births of seven lambs have occurred, and the record in Finland is nine live lambs.
Finnsheep, for example, long raised only bya small group of Finnishpeasants, have become vitalto the sheep industry becauseoftheirability to produce largelitters.