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Sheep Terms
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Sheep Facts
Sheep usually give birth once a year and have 1-3 lambs. Ewes typically give birth to twins.
Sheep grow two teeth a year until they have eight. One sheep produces eight to ten pounds of wool per
year, enough to make a man's suit. One pound of wool can make ten miles of yarn.
Sheep are the only source of lanolin - grease that comes from wool before it has been washed. Lanolin is used in lotions and cosmetics.
The small intestines from 11 sheep are needed to make one tennis racket.
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Banding
The method of putting a rubber band on the tail or scrotum to castrate or to dock.
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Bloat
Term used to describe a secure distention of the abdomen by gas.
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Buck
Term that is used as slang for ram.
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Carding
The preparation of fibers to prepare them for spinning.
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Castrate
Removing of the testicles of a male animal.
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Dam
The female parent.
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Dock
The process of removing or shorting the tail of a animal.
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Ewe
A female sheep of any age.
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Fleece
The wool from a sheep.
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Graft
The process of taking a lamb and putting it with a ewe that is not its natural mother.
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Lamb
A young sheep of either sex.
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Mutton
The meat from a sheep older than one year of age.
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Pelt
The skin of an animal with the hair attached.
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Ram
Uncastrated male sheep.
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Scours
Bacterial infection in animals that result in diarrhea.
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Scrapie
A disease in sheep and goats that shuts down the central nervous system which causes the animal to scratch and become unaware.
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Scurs
Small horns that are just breaking through the skin.
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Shear
The cutting of sheep's wool.
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Wether
A castrated male sheep.
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Yearling
A sheep animal approximately one year of age.