SHEEP AND GOATS 



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prized, and many thousands of lambs are used each 

 year for this purpose. Lambs make more meat for 

 the amount of food eaten than any other animal. 

 The meat is also fatter than that of other animals. 



Feed. Sheep will eat a great variety of feed. Their 

 small mouths and good teeth enable them to bite closer 

 to the ground, and thus to live on shorter grasses than 

 other farm animals. They will eat the leaves and buds 

 of a large number of shrubs and other coarse plants. 

 They may be fattened for market by feeding hay and 

 silage, or corn or other grains, or peas and other legumes. 



SHEEP GRAZING 



Root crops, such as turnips and sugar beets, are good 

 food for sheep. 



Shelter. In keeping sheep through the winter it 



