Category: singularity

One sheep in a field is not like the next, but it takes a cultivated eye to see how they differ. Humans have bred sheep to the shapes they take, but also sheep supply their selves to the situation. Humans may choose to see this, or not. In any event, farmers now are obliged to equip sheep with unique identifiers to trace them wherever they may go.

what is a keb?

A keb is a sheep whose lamb died. She might foster another lamb.

It is included on a website of vocabulary of Northumbrian farming terms

http://knol.google.com/k/clive-dalton/northumbrian-farming-glossary/2txpuk4gtju3n/9#

Other terms to get to know for sheep may include: lamb, ewe, ewe lamb, gimmer, shearling ewe, tup/ram, two shearling ewe, broken mouther ewe, yeld ewes, hoggie, wether lamb, tup lamb, tup hog, dinmont tup, shearing ram.