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Spring lamb — a lamb, usually three to five months old, born in late winter or early spring and sold usually before 1 July (in the northern hemisphere). Sucker lambs — a term used in Australia [ 24 ] — includes young milk-fed lambs, as well as slightly older lambs up to about seven months of age which are also still dependent on their ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 .
Old-season lamb – a lamb a year old or more. Also hogget , shearling , teg . Orf , scabby mouth or contagious ecthyma – a highly contagious viral disease of sheep (and goats) attacking damaged skin areas around the mouth and causing sores, usually affecting lambs in their first year of life.
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).
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.
Most of the sheep meat exported from Australia is either frozen carcases to the UK or is live export to the Middle East for halal slaughter. PETA has stated that sheep exported to countries outside the jurisdiction of Australia's animal cruelty laws are treated inhumanely and that halal meat processing facilities exist in Australia, making the ...