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A cross-bred ewe suckles her lamb, which was the first of the 2008 spring lambing at a farm in Coventry, England Domesticated sheep are herd animals that are bred for agricultural trade. A flock of sheep is mated by a single ram , which has either been chosen by a farmer or, in feral populations, has established dominance through physical ...
While Lamb's analysis assumed a straight wavefront, it has been shown [8] that the same characteristic equations apply to cylindrical plate waves (i.e. waves propagating outwards from a line source, the line lying perpendicular to the plate). The difference is that whereas the "carrier" for the straight wavefront is a sinusoid, the "carrier ...
Poddy lamb, bottle lamb or pet lamb – an orphan lamb reared on a bottle. Also cade lamb, or placer. Rubbed wool indicating the presence of external parasites on sheep. Pour-on – see backliner. Raddle – coloured pigment used to mark sheep for various reasons, such as to show ownership, or to show which lambs belong to which ewe. May be ...
Cattle feedlot in Colorado, United States. Animal husbandry is the branch of agriculture concerned with animals that are raised for meat, fibre, milk, or other products.It includes day-to-day care, management, production, nutrition, selective breeding, and the raising of livestock.
Fables by Aesop include The Crow and the Sheep, The Frog and the Ox, and The Wolf and the Lamb. [79] The mythological creature Chimera, depicted as a lion, with the head of a goat arising from its back, and a tail that might end with a snake's head, was one of the offspring of Typhon and Echidna and a sibling of such monsters as Cerberus and ...
dermal plates partly or completely covering the body of the fish in the order Gasterosteiformes that includes the sticklebacks and relatives; plates of dermal bones of the armadillo; Zygomatic plate, a bony plate derived from the flattened front part of the zygomatic arch (cheekbone) in rodent anatomy
From January 2008 to December 2012, if you bought shares in companies when W. James McNerney, Jr. joined the board, and sold them when he left, you would have a -0.1 percent return on your investment, compared to a -2.8 percent return from the S&P 500.
The etymology of the term "freemartin" is uncertain: speculations include that "free" may indicate "willing" (referring to the freemartin's willingness to work) or "exempt from reproduction" (referring to its sterility, or to a farmer's decision to not bother trying to breed a freemartin, or both), or that it may be derived from a Flemish word for a cow which gives no milk and/or has ceased to ...