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A sheep that acts like a sheep dog. Puzzle: Donkey The Chronicles of Narnia: C. S. Lewis: Rudolph: Reindeer Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: Robert L. May: A reindeer originally from the 1939 story 'Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer', later adapted to a 1949 song, a 1964 television special, and various derivative works. Woolly Sheep When Sheep Can ...
"Dona Dona", popularly known as "Donna, Donna", is a song about a calf being led to slaughter, written by Sholom Secunda and Aaron Zeitlin.Originally a Yiddish language song "Dana Dana" (in Yiddish דאַנאַ דאַנאַ), also known as "Dos Kelbl" (in Yiddish דאָס קעלבל, meaning The Calf), it was a song used in a Yiddish play produced by Zeitlin.
Sheep meat prepared for food is known as either mutton or lamb, and approximately 540 million sheep are slaughtered each year for meat worldwide. [147] " Mutton" is derived from the Old French moton , which was the word for sheep used by the Anglo-Norman rulers of much of the British Isles in the Middle Ages .
The animals most commonly slaughtered for food are cattle and water buffalo, sheep, goats, pigs, deers, horses, rabbits, poultry (mainly chickens, turkeys, ducks and geese), insects (a commercial species is the house cricket), and increasingly, fish in the aquaculture industry (fish farming).
Ram lambs that will be slaughtered or separated from ewes before sexual maturity are not usually castrated. [23] In most breeds, lambs' tails are docked for health reasons. [ 8 ] The tail may be removed just below the lamb's caudal tail flaps (docking shorter than this may cause health problems such as rectal prolapse), [ 8 ] but in some breeds ...
Last week, the virus was confirmed at an egg farm west of Minneapolis, Minnesota, leading to the slaughter of nearly 1.4 mi Farmers must kill 4.2 million chickens after bird flu hits Iowa egg farm ...
The lights can be switched on for 24 h/day, or a range of step-wise light regimens to encourage the birds to feed often and therefore grow rapidly. Females achieve slaughter weight at about 15 weeks of age and males at about 19. Mature commercial birds may be twice as heavy as their wild counterparts.
Jessica Long's 9-year-old didn't want her goat, Cedar, to be slaughtered at the county fair. Officials sent deputies with a search warrant to get it back.