The invention discloses a method for detecting single nucleotide polymorphism of a sheep KITLG gene and application of the method. The method comprises the following steps: carrying out PCR amplification on fragments of the sheep KITLG gene in a manner of taking a whole-genome DNA of sheep to be detected as a template and taking a primer pair P as primers; digesting a PCR amplification product with restriction endonuclease SspI, and then, carrying out agarose gel electrophoresis on the amplified fragments subjected to digestion; identifying the polymorphism of a 47569-th base of the sheep KITLG gene according to electrophoresis results. The mutant site of the base is closely associated with reproduction traits, i.e., litter size of the sheep, so that the method is a method for detecting molecular genetic markers, which are closely related to the reproduction traits of the sheep, from a DNA level, and can be applied to the assisted selection and molecular breeding of the sheep, and thus, the good-variety breeding speed of the sheep is accelerated.