About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 72. Chapters: Sheep, Mesta, Barber's pole, History of sheep, Marco Polo sheep, Domestic sheep reproduction, Bighorn Sheep, Mulesing, Glossary of sheep husbandry, Yan Tan Tethera, Domestic sheep predation, Shepherd, Northern European short-tailed sheep, Lamb and mutton, Dugway sheep incident, Desert Bighorn Sheep, Sheepdog trial, Mouflon, Argali, Sheep-goat hybrid, Shearing shed, Sierra Nevada Bighorn Sheep, Sheep station, Dall Sheep, Urial, Oioceros, Crutching, White Polled Heath, Sheepskin, Dry Sheep Equivalent, U.S. Sheep Experiment Station, Manx Loaghtan, Heidschnucke, National Sheep Association, Counting sheep, Transumanza, A break away!, Mutton Renaissance Campaign, Ovis longipes palaeoaegyptiacus, Sheep dip, Seven Sisters Sheep Centre, Snow sheep, Lamb marking, Altai argali, Instant-boiled mutton, Trailing of the Sheep, Badlands bighorn, Shearling, Ustuyrt Mountain Sheep, Paomo, Queensland Shearers Union, National Sheep Industry Improvement Center, Sheepwalk, Wether. Excerpt: Sheep (Ovis aries) are quadrupedal, ruminant mammals typically kept as livestock. Like all ruminants, sheep are members of the order Artiodactyla, the even-toed ungulates. Although the name "sheep" applies to many species in the genus Ovis, in everyday usage it almost always refers to Ovis aries. Numbering a little over one billion, domestic sheep are also the most numerous species of sheep. Sheep are most likely descended from the wild mouflon of Europe and Asia. One of the earliest animals to be domesticated for agricultural purposes, sheep are raised for fleece, meat (lamb, hogget or mutton) and milk. A sheep's wool is the most widely used animal fiber, and is usually harvested by shearing. Ovine meat is called lamb when from younger animals and mutton when from older ones. Sheep continue to be important for wool and meat today, and are also occasio...
