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minus-squaresquaresinger@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·5 days agoWhy should they? Adults are more expensive to raise per kg of meat.
minus-squareModern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·4 days agoI assumed the adults were a lot bigger.
minus-squaresquaresinger@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·4 days agoNot a lot. Growth slows down fast when an animal gets older. So they are slaughtered at between 6 and 12 months, because that’s the time where the growth slows down too much. No point in having a 30% heavier animal if it takes 2x as long to get to that point.
minus-squareModern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 days agoTotally, I didn’t realize they grew so fast. And in my head a lamb is like a baby. Guess not really.
minus-squaresquaresinger@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·3 days agoYeah, 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.
Why should they? Adults are more expensive to raise per kg of meat.
I assumed the adults were a lot bigger.
Not a lot. Growth slows down fast when an animal gets older.
So they are slaughtered at between 6 and 12 months, because that’s the time where the growth slows down too much.
No point in having a 30% heavier animal if it takes 2x as long to get to that point.
Totally, I didn’t realize they grew so fast. And in my head a lamb is like a baby. Guess not really.
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.