Heart disease, or cardiovascular disease, is a general name for a wide variety of diseases, disorders and conditions that affect the heart and blood vessels. Heart disease is the number one cause of death in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Source: CDC).
Mostly sheep eat grass, clover, forbs, and other pasture plants. They especially love forbs. In fact, it is usually their first choice of food in a pasture. A forb is a broad-leaf plant other than grass. It is a flowering plant. Forbs are often very nutritious.
1 Sheep infected with the larvae of T. hydatigena, T. ovis, T. multiceps and E. granulosus can show clinical disease, and the larvae can also affect the growth rates of growing lambs. Sheep are also the intermediate host to four species of tapeworm (Taenia hydatigena-the thin necked bladder worm, Taenia ovis-the sheep bladder worm ,, Taenia multiceps-the tapeworm that causes gid and Echinococcus granulosus-the tapeworm that causes hydatidosis), all of which have the domestic dog as the final host.