The Valais Blacknose (<a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_language">German</a>: Walliser Schwarznasenschaf) is a <a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sheep_breeds">breed</a> of <a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestic_sheep">domestic sheep</a> originating in the <a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valais">Valais</a> region of Switzerland.It is a dual-purpose breed, raised both for meat and for wool.The breed originates in the mountains of the <a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantons_of_Switzerland">canton</a> of <a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valais_(canton)">Valais</a> – from which its name derives – and of the <a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernese_Oberland">Bernese Oberland</a>. It is documented as far back as the fifteenth century, but the present German name was not used before 1884; the breed standard dates from 1962. In the past there was some <a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-breeding">cross-breeding</a> with imported sheep, in the nineteenth century of <a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bergamasca_(sheep)">Bergamasca</a> and <a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotswold_(sheep)">Cotswold</a> stock, and in the twentieth century of the <a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southdown_(sheep)">Southdown</a> breed.

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