Milk-fed lambs ( and kids ) are especially prized for Easter in Greece, when they are roasted on a spit.

* Milk-fed lamb — meat from an unweaned lamb, typically 4-6 weeks old and weighing 5. 5 to 8 kg ; this is almost unavailable in countries such as the USA and the UK, where it is considered uneconomic.

The most common explanation for the name of Lambourn refers to the lambs which were once dipped in the local river.

Cotswold lambs are very hardy once dried off after birth.

Cotswold ewes usually have a " narrow flank ," once thought of as weakness, until it was observed that this characteristic assists in directing parturient lambs towards a " normal " birth presentation.

She amuses the attendees by transforming ten stones into ten birds, the ten birds into ten lambs, and the ten lambs into ten little girls, who gave a pretty dance and were then transformed back into ten stones once again.

Its name most likely came from Anglo-Saxon Ēanafeld or similar, meaning " open land belonging to a man called Ēana " or " open land for lambs ".

Twin and single lambs are most common, triplets less common.

Survival rates of males ( and lambs ) are influenced by weather throughout winter ( dependent on the strength of the North Atlantic Oscillation ), whereas survival rates of females ( and adolescents ) are influenced most strongly by rainfall at the end of winter, when they will normally be heavily pregnant ( the rain soaks the wool, increasing energy expenditure ).

A renovation in the 1990s did not restore any of Harris's decorative painting, but did preserve many of his most important works, including a nativity scene, the Virgin Mary Enthroned, St. Patrick's and St. Catherine's altars, " The Precious Blood ", a carved and painted frieze featuring lambs, a memorial to deceased Paulists, and a crucifixion.

Lambing occurs between late April and early July on safe, precipitous, rocky slopes ; most lambs in the Sierra Nevada are born in May and

Butter lambs are a popular tradition in Buffalo during the Lenten season leading into Easter.

These continue to important crops, but currently, the cattle and dairy industry is generally accepted as the primary source of agro-business ( although some lambs are raised ).

Another source indicating Peter's supremacy can be found in where Christ tells Peter three times to " feed His sheep " and " feed His lambs.

It is said that the Klephts, bandits of the countryside who did not have flocks of their own, would steal lambs or goats and cook the meat in a sealed pit to avoid the smoke being seen.

Often, meat is used in a more restrictive sense – the flesh of mammalian species ( pigs, cattle, lambs, etc.

Distinct from the meat, a lamb ( singular with the indefinite article ) or lambs ( plural ) also describes live juvenile sheep ( species Ovis aries ), which may or may not be used for meat.

In Australia, the term prime lamb is often used to refer to lambs raised for meat.

The klephts, not having flocks of their own, would steal lambs or goats and cook the meat in a sealed pit to avoid the smoke being seen.

Sheep farming is primarily based on raising lambs for meat, or raising sheep for wool.

Ram breeds are selected for rapid growth and carcase quality, and are mated with ewe breeds to produce meat lambs.

Due to this bird's ability to ( rarely ) prey upon small lambs, the gun clubs of Cork County have killed a large number of these birds in modern times.

bidentalia which states these were small shrines of lesser divinities, to whom hostiae bidentes, i. e. lambs two years old, were sacrificed.

Brown hyenas are poor hunters, and live prey makes up only a small proportion of their diet: in the southern Kalahari, species such as springhare, springbok lambs, bat-eared foxes and korhaan species make up only 4. 2 % of their overall diet, while on the Namib coast, cape fur seal pups compose 2. 9 % of the brown hyenas dietary intake.

However, lambs appear to cope with the procedure better than older sheep as the actual area of skin fold removed on young lambs is quite small, and they are protected for an extra year as well.

Close access to potable water allowed the settlers to develop small tracts of land, build homes of ubiquitous volcanic rock and cultivate a subsistence lifestyle: a few animals ( cows, lambs or goats ) and a small vegetable garden.

It is known for example that ewes with small lambs can be transported over long distances without ending up with a single orphaned lamb.

In the small villages in the mountains people decorate their domestic animals: lambs, kids, young horses.

The favourite food of the boobrie is the flesh of calves ; failing them he feeds upon sheep or lambs, as suits him, or seizing his prey he carries it off to the largest neighbouring muir loch, swims out to the deepest part, where he dives, carrying his victim along with him, and there feeds, returning on shore at pleasure.

Whenever they had a feast, they used to roast lambs or kids, and after the meal, anyone who knew how to " read " the scapula would clean it of any remaining flesh and, lifting it up to the light, would interpret the various shadowy bits showing on the transparent part of the bone.

-- 1.0 gram premix per head per day for promoting growth, feed conversion, and getting lambs on full feed earlier.

treat lambs over 50 pounds and adults with 24 grams per animal.

Helps control shipping dysentery and coccidiosis in lambs.

Whole lambs and goats can be seen on the asado.

" 19: 7-8 Christ is represented throughout Revelation as “ the Lamb ,” symbolizing the giving of his life as an atoning sacrifice for the people of the world, just as lambs were sacrificed on the altar for the sins of Israel.

When attacking smaller prey, such as young lambs, the kill is made by biting the skull and spinal regions, causing massive tissue and bone damage.

There she was bred with a Welsh Mountain ram and produced six lambs in total.

The next year Dolly produced twin lambs Sally and Rosie, and she gave birth to triplets Lucy, Darcy and Cotton in the year after that.

One interpretation of the Gospel of John is that Jesus, as the Passover lamb, was crucified at roughly the same time as the Passover lambs were being slain in the temple, on the afternoon of Nisan 14.

Some 20, 000 lambs are slaughtered annually in Narsaq by the state-owned Neqi A / S.

John, by contrast, puts the Temple incident very early in Jesus ' ministry, has several trips to Jerusalem, and puts the crucifixion immediately before the Passover holiday, on the day when the lambs for the Passover meal were being sacrificed in Temple.

However, according to some traditions, the announcement of the month of Aviv could also be postponed depending on the condition of roads used by families to come to Jerusalem for Passover, adequate numbers of lambs to be sacrificed at the Temple, and on the ripeness of the barley that was needed for the first fruits ceremony.

Imbolc has been traditionally associated with the onset of lactation of ewes, soon to give birth to the spring lambs.

* Spring lambs, born in late winter or early spring, are usually sold before July 1.

Jeroboam's reign was also the period of the prophets Hosea, Joel, Jonah and Amos, all of whom condemned the materialism and selfishness of the Israelite elite of their day: " Woe unto those who lie upon beds of ivory ... eat lambs from the flock and calves ... sing idle songs ..." The book of Kings, written a century later condemns Jeroboam for doing " evil in the eyes of the Lord ", meaning both the oppression of the poor and his continuing support of the cult centres of Dan and Bethel, in opposition to the temple in Jerusalem.

The unpredictable Mesopotamian weather was often hard on farmers ; crops were often ruined so backup sources of food such as cows and lambs were also kept.

He was saved by his mother Rhea, who concealed him among a flock of lambs and pretended to have given birth to a colt, which she gave to Cronus to devour.

The slaughter of the lambs on the 14th is mentioned in The Book of Jubilees, a Jewish work of the Ptolemaic period, and by the Herodian-era writers Josephus and Philo.

" may be further understood not only in the spiritual understandings of many in Indonesia but further in the light of numerous representations of the rooster or cock as a religious vessel found in the Catacombs from the earliest period including a painting from the Catacomb of St. Priscilla ( mentioned in all the ancient liturgical sources and known as the " Queen of the Catacombs " in antiquity ) reproduced in Giovanni Gaetano Bottari's folio of 1754, where the Good Shepherd is depicted as feeding the lambs, with a crowing cock on His right and left hand.

Two lambs are brought from the Trappist abbey of Tre Fontane in Rome to the pope to be blessed.

Its major predators are cheetahs, leopards and black-backed jackals, and hyenas often take springbok lambs.

Its habit of attacking lambs cannot have aided its survival.