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He showed me one young lamb barely an hour old, its mother still licking the afterbirth off.

Because they feed primarily on cow afterbirth and calf carcasses, they help clean up messes and reduce labor time.

For once, Deborah feels what it's like to be upstaged, whether by her ego, her prejudices, or, at a clarifying low point, an animal's afterbirth.

I could almost taste the dough, yeasty and full like afterbirth.

“It was years later,” says Reed-Allen now living in Urbana, Md., “when I realized afterbirth had been left inside me and that I could have died.”