The free Adobe Acrobat Reader allows you to view, navigate and print PDF files across many different platforms. B-15 Revised by Clay P. Mathis, Extension Livestock Specialist, Tim Ross, Professor, Animal Science. College of Agriculture and Home Economics New Mexico State University.
Sheep are among the most efficient of all the domestic animals and have been for thousands of years.
Different from cattle and swine, sheep are adapted to the most extreme environmental conditions. Sheep are very agile and graze easily in the most rugged of mountain terrain, where cattle choose not to feed. Furthermore, some sheep breeds are well suited to survive on sparse desert range that would not be used otherwise. Thus, sheep have the ability to convert the natural forage of these extreme habitats into protein for human uses. We use the proteins produced by sheep in the form of wool and lamb.