• squaresinger@lemmy.world
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      15 hours ago

      Yeah, it’s like with the human term “child”. A child is anything from birth until age 12 or so. There’s quite a bit of a difference in that age range.

      For sheep, a lamb is anything up to roughly a year.

      In fact, sheep enter puberty at ~3-4 months, so a lamb will usually be slaughtered during puberty.