House Sheep | |
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Kingdom | Deer (Animalia) |
Shed |
Wirebacks (Chordata) |
Undershed | Bonebacks (Vertebrata) |
Ilk | Suckledeer (Mammalia) |
Shift | Evenhooves (Artiodactyla) |
Kin | Oxkin (Bovidae) |
Underkin | Goatkin (Caprinae) |
Kind | Sheep (Ovis) |
Erd | House Sheep (Ovis aries) |
The sheep is a behoused deer kin to goats, the does are known as ewes, the bucks as rams and their young as lambs. They are kept by wer as springs of both meat and wool.
The most couth sheep is likely Dolly the Sheep, who was the first stour suckledeer to ever be twinned in 1996. She did not live as long as other sheep as twinnings often have health troubles.