Sheep Trivia

Sheep have naturally occurring oil on their wool called “lanolin.” The lanolin makes the wool water repellent and prevents the cold rain and snow from penetrating to the sheep’s skin.
Sheep are grazers, goats are browsers. Goats prefer to eat leaves from trees and small shrubs, whereas sheep prefer grass.

Sheep Trivia (Courtesy of Cyberspace Farm)

There are 150 yards (450 feet) of wool yarn in a baseball.
Sheep have no top front teeth but the roof of their mouth is hard. This permits sheep to eat vegetation close to the ground and prevents them from pulling up plant roots.
One mature ewe produces 7 to 10 pounds of newly shorn wool a year - enough to make a man’s suit.
The small intestines from 11 sheep are needed to make 1 tennis racket.
Sheep have poor eyesight but an excellent sense of hearing.
One pound of wool can be spun into 20 miles of fine yarn.