Why do sheep eat bark?

As one of the herbivores, it is normal for sheep to like to chew bark when they are hungry. Goats have strong foraging ability and miscellaneous eating habits, and can eat all kinds of grass, shrub branches and leaves, crop straws, vegetable leaves, peels, vines, agricultural and sideline products, etc. They eat a wider variety of plants than other livestock.

Goats and sheep are mainly raised in China. Hairy quadruped ruminant. Originally a product of mountains in the northern hemisphere, it is related to goats; The difference is that the body is fatter, plump and thick. Short head. Males have huge spiral horns, females have no horns or only small horns.

Extended data:

In the absence of forage, the foraging ability is strong. In desert and semi-desert areas, goats can also effectively use most plants that cows can't use. The feeding time of goats is mostly concentrated in the daytime, and they start to feed at sunrise, but they don't feed continuously. Instead, I eat a lot at some time every day and ruminate at other times. According to the measurement, the food intake is large every morning and evening.

Have a strong sociability. Regardless of grazing or house feeding, goats always like to walk together, among which the older, more offspring and strong sheep play the role of "head sheep". Under the leadership of the first sheep, other sheep can only obediently eat grass, get in and out, get up, cross the bridge and cross the narrow place. Sociality provides convenience for large-scale grazing of goats.

Early sexual maturity, strong reproductive ability, with the characteristics of multiple births. Most kinds of goats can produce 2 ~ 3 lambs per fetus, and the average lamb yield is above 200%, which is much higher than that of sheep. The prolificacy of sheep makes its reproductive efficiency much higher than that of sheep, which creates conditions for the development of self-propagation and large-scale breeding of mutton sheep.