Sheep
Sheep (Ovis aries) are quadrupedal, ruminant mammals typically kept as livestock. Like most ruminants, sheep are members of the order Artiodactyla, the even-toed ungulates. Although the name sheep applies to many species in the genus Ovis, in everyday usage it almost always refers to Ovis aries. Numbering a little over one billion, domestic sheep are also the most numerous species of sheep. An adult female is referred to as a ewe (), an intact male as a ram, occasionally a tup, a castrated male as a wether, and a young sheep as a lamb. Sheep are most likely descended from …
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PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 13 July 2024 English
In Karnataka’s Karadaga village, bangles made of sheep hair are considered auspicious and placed around the wrists of newborns. With the decline in the number of shepherds and pasture lands, this craft …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 1 January 2024 English
Becoming a Young Farmer with the subtitle Young People’s Pathways into Farming: Canada, China, India and Indonesia is a collection of research papers published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2024 and …
you win the rat race, you’re still a rat.’—Young sheep farmer from Nova Scotia (Haalboom 2013, 29) I’ve …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 26 September 2023 English
in Metage would wait for Balumama to bring his sheep to their lands to graze, the women in the village …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 1 August 2023 English
The State of India’s Birds (SoIB) is a periodic, national-level examination of the distribution range and abundance trends of Indian birds that aids in formulating conservation plans. The SoIB last …
used for grazing of livestock species including sheep, goat, cow, donkey, horse, yak, and cow-yak hybrids …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 1 June 2023 English
This report was published in June 2023 by the Nudge Institute, Bengaluru, with the support of the Rockefeller Foundation. It presents information gained from interviews with farmers regarding changes in …
health; of these farmers 39% buy manure or rent sheep indicating that farmers recognize the value of … one research location since farmers would rent sheep in this location and use their manure, a practice …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 18 May 2023 English
In Murshidabad, West Bengal, Kohinoor sings for the rights of women, labour, farming and more. Her music brings people together and bolsters solidarity
I'll fence-up my farm To keep your goats at bay I'll fence-up my farm And shoo your sheeps away I'll get a dipkol * like …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 17 April 2023 English
The Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, Government of India, released the first volume of the EnviStats – India 2023 on April 17, 2023. The EnviStats were first published in …
production in India consists mainly of cattle, buffalo, sheep, goat, pig and poultry. In the year 2020-21, Poultry … meat production, whereas Pig consisted of 4% and Sheep consisted of 10% of the total meat production. …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 3 November 2022 English
The climate is changing at 14,500 feet, and herders in Langza say that there is not enough grass for their livestock at high altitudes anymore
in Langza tending to their livestock of cattle, sheep and goats. They spoke about having to travel greater … said Chhering PHOTO • Naveen Macro The village sheep, goats, cattle and donkeys moving towards high altitude …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 13 October 2022 English
State policies’ dismissal of traditional knowledge of the pastoralist communities endangers the lives of Kharai camels and their herders in and around the Marine National Park and Sanctuary in Jamnagar, …
maldharis rear cows, buffaloes, camels, horses, sheep and goats. I’m meeting members of both these groups …
Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities · 23 February 2022 Swedish
the Swedish archaeological expedition to India 1952-1954. Lund India Almost complete scapula from sheep. …
