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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Wild sheep don’t have that problem. Humans bred domestic sheep to be the way they are, which is good at producing wool and meat and not much else. We made this problem in them.

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