As it is a good farming environment to rear sheep
California has the second highest sheep numbers in the US, with 680,000 sheep. This inforamtion is from an American Sheep Industry brochure titled United States Sheep Industry available online.
Despite many people thinking that Australia's animal is the kangaroo, the country has no official national animal.
There are hundreds of sheep killed each year for food. The exact number of sheep killed varies from country to country.
Cattle ranches in Australia are commonly referred to as cattle stations, while sheep ranches are known as sheep stations. These properties are typically large-scale agricultural enterprises that focus on the breeding and raising of cattle or sheep for meat production.
In Argentina, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and the western US where sheep are bred for their wool rather than their mutton, Merino sheep dominate. Australia produces about 80% of the world's Merino wool http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merino
The country with the most sheep is China, with 187,000,000 million sheep. Next are India, Australia, Sudan, and Iran. These figures are from February of 2014.
The most famous sheep, if not the most abundant sheep, in Australia is called the Merino.
Merino Sheep are the common sheep in Australia.
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Australia. Whilst New Zealand has around 40 million sheep, Australia has between 110 million and 120 million sheep.
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Both Australia and New Zealand have more sheep than people.
Both New Zealand and Australia have more sheep than they have people.
China and Australia.
Probably merino, a breed of sheep that originated in Spain. They produce very fine wool, but are not tolerant of wet country - not usually a problem in Aus.