Mouton

Mouton: “Mouton” is the generic term designating a herbivorous and ruminant mammal consumed for its meat, also giving milk used for the manufacture of famous cheeses (roquefort, etorki, brebiou, feta), but also wool and leather, like sheepskin (*).
The word "sheep" comes from the Welsh "molt" meaning castrated male.
Its scientific name is Ovis aries. It is more precisely an ovine, of the genus Ovis belonging to the subfamily of the Caprines, in the large famil ...