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The Tosefta speaks of oil and wine also being stored in skin bottles. [5] The Bedouins of the Negev would occasionally store clarified butter (samen) and olive-oil in special skins called عُكة (ʿukkah). [6] Their volume would be between 15 and 25 L (4 and 6.5 US gallons; 3.5 and 5.5 imperial gallons).
A mineral lick (also known as a salt lick) is a place where animals can go to lick essential mineral nutrients from a deposit of salts and other minerals. Mineral licks can be naturally occurring or artificial (such as blocks of salt that farmers place in pastures for livestock to lick).
Angus weaners, approximately 6-9 months old, just taken off their mothers in Northern NSW Clarence Valley. Cattle drenching is the process of administering chemical solutions (anthelmintics) to cattle or Bos taurus with the purpose of protecting livestock from various parasites including worms, fluke, cattle ticks, lice and flies. [1]
Sheepskin coats, vests, and boots are common in the traditional dress of peoples throughout the Old World (wherever sheep are raised). They seem to be especially popular in the steppes of Eastern European and Northern Asia, and according to the French knight Robert de Clari , they were part of the national costume of the Cuman people who lived ...
Scab or sheep scab – a type of mange in sheep, a skin disease caused by attack by the sheep scab mite Psoroptes ovis, a psoroptid mite. Scabby mouth – see orf above. Scrapie – a wasting disease of sheep and goats, a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE, like BSE of cattle) and believed to be caused by a prion.
A range of other minerals may also be included in the mixture: [6]: 134 Yellow ochre (Goldochre) pigment. Yellow ochre, FeO(OH)·nH 2 O, is a hydrated iron hydroxide (limonite) also called gold ochre. Red ochre, Fe 2 O 3 ·nH 2 O, takes its reddish colour from the mineral hematite, which is an iron oxide, reddish brown when hydrated. [7]
The wool pulling industry deals with the fleece from skin wool or pulled wool. Sheepskin is the raw material for Wool pulling industry. Unlike the usual practice of shearing, the wool of a living sheep, the pulled wool is obtained from the slaughtered sheep raised in the meat industry.
Sheepskin is the hide of a sheep, sometimes also called lambskin or lambswool. Sheepskin may also refer to: Parchment, a thin material made from calfskin, sheepskin or goatskin Diploma, originally made of sheepskin; Lambskin condom, condoms made from sheep intestines