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