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A Judas goat is a trained goat used in animal herding. Judas goats are trained to associate with sheep or cattle and lead them to a specific destination. In stockyards, a Judas goat will lead sheep to slaughter [1] while its own life is spared. Judas goats are also used to lead other animals to specific pens and onto trucks.
Band – a flock with a large number of sheep, generally 1000, which graze on rangeland. Bell sheep – a sheep (usually a rough, wrinkly one) caught by a shearer, just before the end of a shearing run. [1] Bellwether – originally an experienced wether given a bell to lead a flock; now mainly used figuratively for a person acting as a lead ...
Sheep and goats are closely related: both are in the subfamily Caprinae. However, they are separate species, so hybrids rarely occur and are always infertile. A hybrid of a ewe and a buck (a male goat) is called a sheep-goat hybrid, known as geep. Visual differences between sheep and goats include the beard of goats and divided upper lip of sheep.
Sheep farming in Namibia (2017). According to the FAOSTAT database of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, the top five countries by number of head of sheep (average from 1993 to 2013) were: mainland China (146.5 million head), Australia (101.1 million), India (62.1 million), Iran (51.7 million), and the former Sudan (46.2 million). [2]
The Somali sheep is white with a black head. It belongs to the fat-tail type, and both of the breed's genders are polled. [ 1 ] [ 3 ] The animal is mainly reared for meat production, [ 1 ] and is a major export of the Somali economy , particularly to the Arabian Peninsula , via Berbera port .
The origin of the breed is not known; broken-coloured polycerate sheep were present in England by the middle of the seventeenth century, and were widespread a century later. A breed society was formed in 1969, and a flock book was published from 1972. The Jacob was kept for centuries as a "park sheep", to ornament the large estates of landowners.
Kevin Paffrath is the leading Democratic candidate ahead of the Gavin Newsom recall election. The 29-year-old trails behind conservative talk show host Larry Elder in most polls.
A black sheep stands out from the flock. The Black Sheep from a 1901 edition of Mother Goose by William Wallace Denslow. In the English language, black sheep is an idiom that describes a member of a group who is different from the rest, especially a family member who does not fit in.