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Sheep Production
Sheep Production & Breeds
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Mature Female Sheep | Ewe |
| Mature Male Sheep | Ram |
| Immature Female Sheep | Ewe Lamb |
| Immature Male Sheep | Ram Lamb |
| Young Sheep | Lamb |
| Process of sheep giving birth | Lambing |
| Act of sheep mating | Tupping |
| British medium wool breed with clean black head and legs. | Suffolk |
| British medium wool Black faced breed with some wool on poll and legs. | Hampshire |
| Length of wool fiber | Staple |
| Meat from a sheep younger than 1 year | Lamb |
| Meat from an sheep older than 1 year | Mutton |
| Process of removing the tail | Docking |
| Process of removing the testicles of a male | Castration |
| Castrated male | Wether |
| oldest breed of sheep | Mouflan |
| Sheep breed known to have litters of lambs | Finnsheep |
| Breed known as the wool breed | Merino |
| South African Breed of sheep | Dorper |
| Hair Breed of sheep. Starts with a "K" | Katahdin |
| White faced medium wool breed with light skin | Dorset |
| White faced medium wool breed with dark skin and usually small framed | Southdown |
| Process of preparing ewes to breed by feeding grain and high quality hay prior to breeding season | Flushing |
| Animals that breed when the days are short | Short day breeders |
| Length of day (light) | Photoperiod |
| First milk produced by the ewe that is rich with antibodies | Colostrum |
| The most ideal number of lambs born per ewe | Twins |
| Gestation period | 145 days |
| Sheep digestive system | Ruminant System |
| Ruminant stomachs have how many chambers? | Four |
| Sheep are designed to consume what types of feed? | High Fiber |
| A high fiber feed is also called what? | Roughage |
| Newborn lambs should have their navels dipped with what? | Iodine Tincture |
| What does Iodine Tincture do to a fresh umbilical cord? | Dries and Disinfects |
| Most sheep need to be sheared how many times a year? | Once |
| The process of removing a sheep's wool: | Shearing |
| One year's growth of wool is called what? | Fleece |
| Sheep's mouths have top and bottom sets of? | Molars |
| Sheep's mouths have only which set of front teeth? | Bottom |
| The bolus of food which a ruminant regurgitates to re-chew is called a : | Cud |
| The number of teats on a ewe's udder: | Two |
| Sheep that are bred not to grow horns: | Polled |
| Sheep that grow horns: | Horned |
| The process of breeding a specie so that it becomes more useful to humans | Domestication |
| Disease that affects the nervous systems and brains of infected sheep. | Scrapie |
| Genetic disease that kills lambs, found mostly in the Suffolk breed. | Spider Gene |
| Tetanus and Clostridium are examples of? | Sheep Vaccines |
| Vaccines should be given when? | Annually |
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MrDiaz
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