Source Material: Sheep and Lamb

Introduction

U.S. Domestic Sheep and Lamb production data is present in USDA databases. Taxonomic, sequence data, and Medline references are available from the National Center for Biotechnology Information of the National Library of Medicine.

Data

U.S. Production Head of Sheep and Lamb 1000's by year

1970	1971	1972	1973	1974	1975	1976	1977	1978	1979	1980	1981	1982	1983	1984	1985	1986	1987	1988	1989	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996
10552	10731	10302	9598	8848	7836	6714	6354	5370	5016	5581	6008	6449	6621	6759	6165	5638	5200	5294	5466	5654	5722	5497	5184	4939	4559	4185

Taxonomic information on ovis

PubMed query for scrapie and sheep

References

Red Meat Yearbook USDA and Mann Library Cornell
NCBI Taxonomy Server
NCBI's PubMed

Incoming Processes

Oral Exposure: Feed
Genetic Exposure
Spontaneous Mutation

Outgoing Processes

Slaughter

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