I have an interesting conundrum. What is the absolute minimum

>>8716939
Are you asking us for a figure? This is an online board.

Uroboros or sheep centipede.

I'd expect it would live longer if it didn't eat any of it's feces. Not a biologist though.

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>>8716939
The majority of nutrients present in fresh food are lost after digestion. Only indigestible fibre remains

The repeat eating of already digested food will offer little to zero nutrition, so the eating of shit is moot

Your question reduces to "how little food can I feed a sheep before it dies?"

>>8716939
this is clearly a muslim doing science in the name of muhammed

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>>8716961
Alright then, let's make it interesting, then. Let's say it's a miracle sheep capable of retaining 25% of the nutrients in each defecation, with no loss in nutrition gained from eating normally. So for instance, if it was 100g of nutrition, on the first re-eating it would be 25g, then 6.25g, etc etc.

Additionally, it can be fed up to three times a day, or down to one meal per day.

With these additional pieces of information, what would be the optimal amount of food and the optimal number of feedings per day?

>>8717060
>trying this hard to find an excuse to think about a sheep eating its own shit

>>8716961
Then why do i always feel invigorated and refreshed after i eat your dads ass?

>>8717080
>trying this hard to find a reason not to have fun doing a puzzle

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>how big is the sheep
>what activity is it doing all day
>what food is available
>what is the climate like
>how many other sheep are there to interact with
>is the sheep sick
>is the sheep pregnant
>is the sheep housed under cover
>is the day cycle 24 hours
>can the sheep get up in the night and eat it's own shit

As other anon said, this is a fetish, not a problem.
You have given us fucking nothing to work with.

>>8717117
Why would you not assume all this information is going to be whatever the common default would be unless expressly stated otherwise?

>how big
Already said normal height/weight for a female sheep.
>activity
Whatever sheeps do. Standard feed ratio would take that into account.
>what food
Generic sheep food.
>climate
Whatever it is in Wales or Scotland or wherever.
>how many
One.
>is the sheep sick/pregnant/housed
No, no, barn.
>is the day cycle 24hrs
Do you not live on planet earth? It would explain these asinine questions.
>can the sheep get up at night
Yes.

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>>8717103
>a puzzle about an animal eating its own fecal matter is a fun puzzle

>>8717138
>standard feed ratio takes that into account
It doesn't though, because free range sheep do a shit-load more "work" than heavily contained sheep.

>Generic sheep food
So I now have to go and find the most commonly used industrial sheep food and research it's nutritional value?
Along with checking sheep absorption rates for said values?

>Wales
>Scotland
>Where-ever
Totally different, if it is colder, wetter, more hilly etc the sheep will need a shitload more food.

You need to research all this shit if you want an answer, instead of making this some kind of fucked up Easter egg hunt when we all get bogged down looking for a reference on sheep digestive system functions.
Also
>>8717146
This guy has it right.
All indicators are pointing to this being some sort of fucked up sexual desire.

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>>8717178
>all variables have to be known in advance
>you have to do research and have it be exact and excruciatingly specific
>there is no possible way to make a reasonable guess
>everything needs to be over complicated because I'm a gigantic no fun autist
>oh btw it's a fetish hurr durr u got rekt xD

You could pick apart nearly any simple logic puzzle with this same bullshit. Fuck you and your stupidly unreasonable demands. Even if I went and did all the shit you're demanding, you'd just come up with more things you'd demand answered until I finally just did it myself and ruined the whole fucking point of the thread, all so you can feel smug superiority for being an asinine attention whore.

>>8717378
As of right now, there is literally not a problem, as you have provided no information, not even simplified information.

>>8716939
How often does it shit and by how much?

>>8716939
Wouldn't the sheep die of bacteria infections of the upper digestion tract?