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Well firstly, your sheep are walking to town.

Secondly, the answer is: a wagon-full. Sheep are not particularly more dense than grain. You are not going to be able to cram a higher mass of sheep in a wagon than you can cram grain; the exact number you could transport in a particular wagon will be determined more by geometry than mass.

This does tend towards a common mass-unit for anything that is shipped by mass; in archaic American/English units this is typically the hundredweight and ton, depending on whether you are shipping a little or a lot.

A more likely example would be shipping grain or coke one way and shipping iron stock back; you might transport 15 hundredweight each way, although more likely you'd be light one way or the other.



> Well firstly, your sheep are walking to town

He had a trailer. I'm not that old. :) I'm not aware of any sheep transporting that involved precise weights. AFAIK, he never mailed sheep.

In any case... we could convert between weights when necessary.




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