why haven’t sheep evolved to “right” themselves if they fall on their backs?

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Please explain sheep and any other animal really, that can become “cast” – isn’t falling down just a normal part of life? How is it that they can’t get back up themselves and will die from what I think of as a basic fact of life?

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This is the same reason food chickens can’t breed by themselves anymore because we’ve bred them for larger breasts which prevents them from being able to mate. The same for sheep, we’ve bred them to have such massive coats that when they fall on their backs their coats prevent them from being able to roll over.

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