After nearly two months in limbo, the survivors of a cargo ship disaster in the Black Sea — 180 sheep out of more than 14,000 that were being transported — arrived at a new home in the Romanian countryside on Friday, according to the team involved in their rescue.

They were to be slaughtered in Saudi Arabia but have been spared from being butchered, said Kuki Barbuceanu, the president of the animal welfare organization known as ARCA.

“We didn’t save them to be eaten by somebody,” Mr. Barbuceanu said on Friday, shortly after dropping them off at a farm in Peris, about 20 miles north of Bucharest.

Though they may be referred to as sheep, they are technically rams because they are all males. (Females stay behind to reproduce, Mr. Barbuceanu said; typically only males are shipped away to become meat.)