Sheep

Sheep (Ovis aries) is a small ruminant kept for wool and meat, grazed on pasture.¹²

Inputs

• Livestock forage
• Water

Outputs

• Human food²
• Wool
• Meat
• Manure: fresh sheep manure runs about 0.7–2.0% Nitrogen, 0.2–0.6% Phosphorus, and 1.0% Potassium by moist weight, with a suggested maximum application rate of about 3.3 kg per m² per year.³

Type

• Livestock

Footnotes

1. Sheep Housing and Facilities Requirements | Penn State Extension ↩

2. Sheep and Goats, released January 31, 2014 | USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service ↩ ↩²

3. Manure in the Home Garden (AZ1590) | University of Arizona Cooperative Extension (James Walworth) ↩