lambing ewe

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• lambing — lamb ► NOUN 1) a young sheep. 2) a mild mannered, gentle, or innocent person. ► VERB 1) (of a ewe) give birth to lambs. 2) tend (ewes) at lambing time. DERIVATIVES lambing noun …   English terms dictionary

• lambing — n. act of giving birth to a lamb or lambs (regarding a ewe); act of looking after ewes that are lambing (regarding shepherd or farmer) læm n. young sheep; meat of a young sheep; naive and innocent person; gullible person, person who is easily… …   English contemporary dictionary

• lambing — noun the act of a ewe giving birth to a lamb …   Wiktionary

• Domestic sheep reproduction — A cross bred ewe suckles her lamb, which was the first of the 2008 spring lambing at a farm in Coventry, England As with other mammals, domestic sheep reproduction occurs sexually. Their reproductive strategy is very similar to other domestic… …   Wikipedia

• Glossary of sheep husbandry — The raising of domestic sheep has existed in nearly every inhabited part of the globe, and the variations in cultures and languages which have kept sheep has produced a vast lexicon of unique terminology used to describe sheep husbandry. A few of …   Wikipedia

• Sheep husbandry — Australian Merino Sheep Sheep husbandry is a subcategory of animal husbandry specifically dealing with the raising and breeding of domestic sheep. Sheep farming is primarily based on raising lambs for meat, or raising sheep for wool. Sheep may… …   Wikipedia

• Sheep — For other uses, see Sheep (disambiguation). Domestic sheep A research flo …   Wikipedia

• Domestic sheep — taxobox name = Domestic sheep status = DOM image width = 250px image caption = A research flock at U.S. Sheep Experiment Station near Dubois, Idaho regnum = Animalia phylum = Chordata classis = Mammalia ordo = Artiodactyla familia = Bovidae… …   Wikipedia

• Coopworth (sheep) — A Coopworth Ram The Coopworth breed of sheep was developed by a team of scientists at Lincoln College (now Lincoln University) in Canterbury, New Zealand, to increase lambing percentages of Romney ewes when mated with Border Leicester rams. The… …   Wikipedia

• lamb — noun 1》 a young sheep. 2》 a mild mannered, gentle, or innocent person. verb (of a ewe) give birth to lambs. ↘tend (ewes) at lambing time. Phrases in lamb (of a ewe) pregnant. the Lamb of God a title of Jesus Christ (see John 1:29). Derivatives… …   English new terms dictionary

• Bighorn sheep — For other uses, see Big Horn (disambiguation). Bighorn sheep Male (ram) …   Wikipedia