Sheep husbandry; with an account of different breeds, and general directions in regard to summer and winter management, breeding and the treatment of . )opular veterinary treatise. The Teeth.—-The sheep has 24 molar teeth, and eight incisors. Thalatter are confined to the lower jaw, being opposed to a firm, hard, elasticpad or cushion on the upper jaw. The incisors are ^o^^e-shaped—^. e.,concave without and convex within—which enables the sheep to crop theherbage closer to the ground than our other domestic ruminant, the ox. The lamb is born without incisor teeth, or it has but two.
Sheep husbandry; with an account of different breeds, and general directions in regard to summer and winter management, breeding and the treatment of . )opular veterinary treatise. The Teeth.—-The sheep has 24 molar teeth, and eight incisors. Thalatter are confined to the lower jaw, being opposed to a firm, hard, elasticpad or cushion on the upper jaw. The incisors are ^o^^e-shaped—^. e.,concave without and convex within—which enables the sheep to crop theherbage closer to the ground than our other domestic ruminant, the ox. The lamb is born without incisor teeth, or it has but two. In three orfour weeks, it has eight small, shortish ones, as represented -n fig. 50.— Fig. 50. Fig. 51. Fig. Fig. 53. Fig. 54. Fig. 55. When not far from a year old—though sometimes not until fourteen, fif-teen, or even sixteen months old—the two central incisors are shed, andtheir place is supplied by two longer and broader teeth, as in fig. 51. Thesheep is then termed, in this country, a yearling, or yearling past. Twoof the lamb teeth continue to be annually shed and their places suppliedwith the permanent ones until the sheep becomes ?^ full-mouthedy presents the teeth of a two-year-old-past—fig. 53 of a three-year-old-past—fig. i)b of a foui-year-old-past. The four-year-old-past is, in reality,nearly or quite five years old, before it obtains its whole number of fullfj-grown permanent teeth. The two-year-old and three-year-old also aboutreach their next year before their additional incisois are fully grown.—Hence, the English writers all speak of two broad teeth (meaning fully-thrown ones) as indicating the age of two years; four broad teeth, threeyears ; six broad te
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