Big game — Ovis gmelini musimon
Mouflon
The European mouflon for your game parks, enclosures and restocking projects. Live animals delivered across France and Europe, with veterinary certificate and live-arrival guarantee.
The European mouflon
The Mediterranean mouflon (Ovis gmelini musimon, formerly Ovis ammon musimon) is the smallest of Europe's wild sheep and the wild ancestor of the domestic sheep. Native to Corsica and Sardinia, it has been successfully introduced into many mountain ranges on the continent since the 18th century. Hardy, gregarious and remarkably adaptable, it thrives equally on dry, rocky terrain and in large wooded parks — making it a species of choice for wildlife parks, game enclosures and big-game management projects.
- The ram and its horns
- Only the ram carries the large spiral horns, which grow throughout its life and make it possible to estimate its age. A mature trophy frequently exceeds 60 cm.
- Size
- Rams weigh 35 to 55 kg and stand 70 to 90 cm at the withers; ewes are markedly lighter, at 25 to 35 kg, and generally have no horns or only short ones.
- Coat and saddle
- Reddish-brown coat turning dark brown in winter, with a pale belly and lower legs. The adult ram displays a characteristic pale patch on its flank, the “saddle”.
- Annual cycle
- Rut from October to December, lambing in March–April after five months' gestation, most often one lamb per ewe.
Our mouflon
Our mouflons are raised in large enclosures, in structured groups that reproduce the species' natural social organisation: herds of ewes and lambs, with rams kept apart outside the rutting season. This husbandry produces animals that are calm to handle yet keep their hardiness and wariness once returned to the wild. Each animal comes with its health certificate; we also provide the traceability documents required for your introduction application.
- Assembled lots
- We put together lots to suit your project: founding groups of ewes plus a ram, young animals to build up a population, or trophy rams.
- Health and traceability
- Farm no. 38001, veterinary, health and environmental approvals. Health certificate, TRACES documents for export and supporting invoice provided.
- Specialised transport
- Delivery in our own vehicles fitted out for big game throughout France, and road or air transport to the required standards to the European Union.
- Live arrival guaranteed
- As with all our game, live arrival is guaranteed. The conditions are set out in our general terms and conditions of sale.
Establishing mouflon on your ground
The mouflon needs space, relief or cover, and an accessible water point. It is a gregarious species: you never introduce a single animal on its own. A coherent founder group, an acclimatisation enclosure and a period of quiet after settling determine the success of the operation far more than the number of animals introduced. If your hunting ground is wooded rather than mountainous, GIBIS also supplies the other live big game: our French roe deer for restocking, delivered subject to capture.
Suitable habitat
Dry relief, rocky slopes, heathland and large wooded parks. The mouflon copes poorly with permanently waterlogged ground and with closed habitats lacking open areas.
Founding group
Plan for a core group of several ewes with one or two rams rather than isolated animals: social cohesion determines whether they settle on the ground.
Acclimatisation enclosure
An acclimatisation enclosure at the introduction site greatly reduces dispersal and mortality in the first weeks.
Authorisations
Introducing big game into the wild and keeping it in enclosures are both regulated and subject to authorisation. Check the applicable framework with your DDT (departmental directorate of territories) and your departmental hunters' federation.
Price on request
These animals are not sold at catalogue prices: the rate depends on sex, age, quantity and capture conditions. Call us or send us an email — we will prepare a quote tailored to your project.
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Request your mouflon quote
Tell us the number of animals, their sex and your project — park, hunting enclosure or restocking — and we will send you a detailed proposal, transport and health documents included.