ANS 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Caprinae, Fireproofing, Sweat Gland
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Taxonomy of sheep, mammals, order of artiodactyl"s (@) Belonging to family of bodidae: subfamily of caprinae, sheep are know by their latin name of ovis aries, number of chromosomes. 54 chromosomes in sheep: handy terms, male sheep is a ram, yue. Castrate called a wether: less than one year old sheep called hogget, market weight sheep that is a prime age for harvest for meat, giving birth called lambing. Another term across all species called parturition: why wool, major comedies that we harvest from sheep. Raise sheep for wool, meat, milk: us is not a major sheep producing country. China and australia both have about 70 million sheep: history. About 10,000 bc: domesticated in the middle east, when earlier settles moved to us, sheep were easy to bring over from old world, great source of meat, wool and meat, uses of wool, warm.
