Sheep management – Flashcards
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Meat,wool
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Provide two sources of cash income
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Fine wool
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Account for more than 50 percent of the worlds sheep population
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Medium wool
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Large framed and capable of producing high quality, high yielding fleeces
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Long wool
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Produce high yielding fleeces and are popular among hand spinners
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Southdowns
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Smaller and white in color with grayish face
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Dorset
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Largest white faced breed in the united states
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East friesian
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Most productive dairy breed
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Prolific
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Known for their multiple births
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Hair
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Coat of course wool in winter months and shed the wool going into summer months
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Purebred
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Provide the genetics of which commercial sheep production and the market value of offspring
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Commercial
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Production is aimed towards maximizing production and the market value of offspring
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140
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Average live weight of a slaughter lamb
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Prime, choice, good, cull
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The usda quality grades for lamb
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Ruminants
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Sheep are classifies as (blank) meaning they have a four compartment stomach
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Depredation
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The death of livestock due to predators
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Water
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First limiting nutrient in an animals diet
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Enterotoxemia
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Overeating, disease brought on by heavy feeding over a period of time
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Tetanus
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Causes stiffness or rigor in the bodys muscle
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Urinary calculi
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Disease that causes stones or crystals to form in the urinary tract and usually occurs when animals are fed a high concentrates diet or do bot drink enough water
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White muscle
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Otherwise known as nutritional muscular dystrophy and causes the degeneration of muscle in lambs
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Sore mouth
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Causes ulcerations and scabs around the lips and in the mouth of a sheep and can spread to the udder of a ewe
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Weight, finish, muscle
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Selection of market lambs are based on three main factors
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Finsih
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Alos known as cover, term used to market animals, external fatness of an animal
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Greece fleece
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Wool is evaluated as (blank) meaning the wool in the condition in which it is short befor washing and scouring
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Yield
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The fleece is an estimate of the percentage of the amount of clean wool fibers which will be obtained after the scouring process
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Grade
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The fitness, of the wool refers to the fiber micron diameter
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Body condition
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Number that describes the level of flesh or fat that an animal possesses
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5 months/148 days
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Gestation or pregnancy length in sheep
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Parturition
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Gestation ends with what is known as
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Dystocia
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Term used for trouble giving birth
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Colostrum
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Filled with antibodies from the mother, paves the orad for the future health, immunity and the survival of the young
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3
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Traditional weaning age for lambs is about (blank) months
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Tagging, notching, tattooing
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Different ways to identify animals
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Wethering
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Castration, also refered to as (blank) affects the overall performance of an animal and is important to the success if commercial operations
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Docking
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Removing the tail at or near the tail head
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Crutching
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Tagging or (blank) is known as removing the wool around the dock and mammary glands
