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73 Cards in this Set
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What breeds make up the UMC Sheep flock
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Hampshiers, Montadals, and Crosses
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What is an advantage of the Hampshires and one disadvantage
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They arer growthy but are not the best moms.
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What are the advantages and disadvatages of the Montadals.
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Have many purposes, but are skidsh
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Define Flushing
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Increassing the plane of nutriten to increasse productivite of a ewe
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How fequently should sheep be dewormed
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twice a year
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What is the adverage gestation period for a sheep
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147 days
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When will the ewes lamb if they are bred in September/ October?
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Febuary/ March
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What coloe hoof is a better one
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The darker the hoof the stronger it is.
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Define Lamb
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The meat from a sheep that is less than one year old.
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Define Mutton
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The Meat from a sheep that is over one year of age
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What is the world meat consumption of Lamb or Mutton
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6%
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What is the world meat consumption of Pork
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40%
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What is the world meat consumption of Beef
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32%
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What is the world meat consumption of Poultry
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22%
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Whats in Lamb meat
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Prime source of high quality protein, vitamins, and minerals. The protein is nutritionally complete with all 8 essential amino acids.
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What else is in Lamb meat
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high in B vitamins, niacin, zinc, and iron. Best source of absorbable iron.
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What % of lamb fat is the good fat
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64%
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Who are the largest consumers of Lamb
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New Zealand, Kuwait, Australia, and Greece.
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Who are the smallest consumers of lamb
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U.S. Spain, Sudi Arabia, and the United Kingdom
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Define Sheep
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Over 1 year of age
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Define Lambs
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less than a year of age, also the term for the flesh of a young domestic sheep eaten as food.
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Define Ram
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Non Castrated male sheep
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Define Wether
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Castrated male sheep
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Define Ewe
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Female Sheep
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How many cromosomes does a Sheep have
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54 chromosomes
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How many cromosomes does a Goat have
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60 chromosomes
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Define Chimeras
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A hybrid of a Sheep Goat Cross
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What is the difference between sheep and goats' tails
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Sheep stay down and goats stand up.
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Define Grazing
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Eatting things low to the ground. Sheep are grazers
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Define Browsing
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Eating leavs, twigs, vines, and shrubs. Goats are browsers.
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Define the Gregarious Behavior
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Tending to form a group with others of the same kind. (the herding or flocking behavior)
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What are some Ram breeds
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Suffolk, Hampshire, and Montadle.
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Define Ram breeds
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Often black faced, meat type, good growth rate, scatter when graze, breed from late summer to early winter.
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Define Ewe breeds
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often white faced, good wool, good moms, longevity, flocking sheep, longer breeding season.
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Whatbreds are Ewe breeds
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Rambouillet, Finnsheep, Merino, and Dorset
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What is used more world wide for milk goats or cows
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Goats
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Define accelerated lambing
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the ability to produce three sets of lambs in a two year period
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Define Prolificacy
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The ability to produce mulitple offspring
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Define Creep area
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area where lambs can socialize and be given a palatable, highly digestible feed without the ewes being able to enter.
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Define Lambing Jug
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Lambing pen along a wall with heat lamps to keep the lambs worm
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Define Crutching
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trim the wool around th vulva and udder pior to lambing to keep everything clean
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Define painting
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temporary marking of the sheep for record keeping
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Define shear
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remove the wool from the sheep
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Define polyestrous
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numerous cycles within a definite season
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How old or how much does a ewe have to be to be breed
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100lbs or 7-8 months
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How many ewes can a ram service
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12-15 as a lamb, and up to 100 as a yearling
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How long are rams normally kept?
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6 years.
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Define marking harness
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ram marks back of ewe with a crayon when mating
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Why do they change the crayon color of a marking harness after 17 days
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To see if the ewe have been breed if they are remounted they were not breed.
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How often do ewes go into estrus
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Occurs every 16-17 days
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How long is an ewes estrus peiod
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30 hours ovulation is about 15 hours
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Define Fleece
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the wool pelt
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Define Follicle
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growth point
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Define cuticle
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causes fibers to cling together
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Define felting
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intermingling of fibers
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Define crimp
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waves in the wool
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Define kemp
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large fibers that lack crimp, they decrease the value of wool.
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Who does wool come from
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Sheep
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Who does Mohair come from
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Angora goats
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Define Greasy
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wool that has not been cleaned
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Define Scoured
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Cleaned wool
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Define breaks
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fiber breaks or is weakened by some type of stress
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how much wool do the umc sheep prouduce
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6 to 9lbs each
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What is the average fleece weight in the U.S.
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8.2lbs
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How many times can a single wool fiber be bent back on itself
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more than 20,000 times compared to cotton witch is only 3,000 times
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How many times can wool fibers stretch
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50% of its length when dry and up to 30% when wet
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How much can wool absorb
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30% of its weight
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Define Spider syndrome
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Skeletal deformity caused by a recessive gene (outward bend knee)
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Define Entropion
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turned eyelids; may cause blindness if not corrected
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Define Scrapies
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not sure if it is genetic but will be seen in certain blood lines/ families/ breeds similar to BSE and CJD- nervous disorder
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Define Enterotoxemia
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overating desiease
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Define pregnancy disease
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lack of energy late in gestation
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Define Camphylobacter and Chlamydia
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reproductive diseases that cause abortion in sheep.
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