Sheep farming or sheep husbandry is the raising and breeding of domestic sheep. It is a branch of animal husbandry. Sheep are raised principally for their meat, milk, and fiber (wool). They also yield sheepskin and parchment.
Australian Merino sheep
Shepherd in the Taurus Mountains
Flock of sheep moving through Cologne, Germany, early on a holiday morning
Sheep in Patagonia, Argentina
Sheep or domestic sheep are a domesticated, ruminant mammal typically kept as livestock. Although the term sheep can apply to other species in the genus Ovis, in everyday usage it almost always refers to domesticated sheep. Like all ruminants, sheep are members of the order Artiodactyla, the even-toed ungulates. Numbering a little over one billion, domestic sheep are also the most numerous species of sheep. An adult female is referred to as a ewe, an intact male as a ram, occasionally a tup, a castrated male as a wether, and a young sheep as a lamb.
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Sheep in Turkmenistan
Suffolks are a medium wool, black-faced breed of meat sheep that make up 60% of the sheep population in the U.S.
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