Sheep are mammals with a thick woolly coat, kept in flocks and raised for meat, wool or milk.
Sheep are ruminants, which means that they, like cattle and goats, chew their cud.
Adult female sheep are called ewes, adult males are called rams and young sheep are called lambs. BC produces about 85 tonnes of shorn wool. There are about 18,000 sheep and lambs slaughtered each year for meat. In BC, sheep's milk is a minor commodity. Sheep and lambs are able to graze more closely on short grasses and various shrubs than cattle.