Wikipedia:POTD row/February 5, 2006



The Domestic Sheep is the most common species of the sheep genus. They are woolly ruminant quadruped which probably descended from the wild moufflon. Many breeds of sheep occur, generally sub-classable as woolclass breeds and hair class breeds. Farmers develop wool breeds for superior wool quantity and quality (fineness of fibers), wool staple length and degree of crimp in the fiber. Hair class sheep are the original class of sheep in the world, developed for meat and leather.

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