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Sheep Study Guide 2012 Parts of a Sheep It is important to be able to identify the parts of your 4-H animals to help you describe it. Study this picture and practice identifying the parts. DID YOU KNOW: LAMB is a great source of protein for humans? Wholesale Cuts of Lamb: Name wholesale cuts pictured above. _______________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________ 2 | P a g e _______________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________
3 | P a g e Sheep Study Guide 2012 Know the names and a few characteristic of different breeds of cattle: Angus: These animals are polled (no horns) with a black coat. They are known for their carcass Knowing quality, the milking names and and mothering a few characteristics and their reproductive of traits. They are the most different popular breed breeds of of cattle sheep in is the important. United stated. Herford; These animals are red with white faces and Match the breeds of can Cheviot: be polled These or horned. animals are They small were sized, brought white-faced the United sheep sheep with the pictures <strong>State</strong>d with clean in 1817. heads They and became legs. They popular are easy due lambers, to their good hardiness, milkers and feed possess efficiency excellent and lamb disposition. vigor. Simmental: Charolais Columbia: These sheep were developed from a Lincoln ram Gelbvieh and a Rambouillet ewe cross. They are known for their size, A. wool-producing ability, and productivity under range Limousin conditions. This breed is large, white-faced, polled and has wool on the legs. B. C. F. D. E. Hampshire: These sheep are large, moderately prolific breed with wool caps, black faces, medium-wool fleeces. They also Definitions: have very good milking ability, growth, and carcass cutability. Bull: Male animal Heifer: Rambouillet: Female This is animal a long-lived, that has rugged not yet breed calved that will breed Steer: out of season Castrated and have male wool that is fine in fiber diameter. Fattening: These sheep The are process large, white-faced, of deposition with energy wool in on the the form head of and fat legs, within and the can body be polled tissue or horned. Gestation: The length of time an animal is pregnant Cud: Shropshire: The Shropshire bolus of eaten is a medium-sized, feed which is dark-faced, regurgitated polled and breed further and chewed. grows wool on its head and face. It is prolific, Expenses: matures early, items milks that well, you and have is purchased heavily muscled. for your Lambs project are Profit: hardy, fast-growing when your and income produce is larger lean, well-muscled than your expenses carcasses. Loss: when your expenses are larger than your income Suffolk: This polled breed with black head and legs has the Breakeven: most number The of price purebred per pound registrations you need in to the cover United your <strong>State</strong>s. It total is known expenses for its meatiness and high quality carcass. Lambs Intravenous-applying grow rapidly and produce medication high cutability for the benefit carcasses of the animal directly into the blood flow Subcutaneous: Applying medication for the benefit of the What is the difference between a “ewe breed” and a animal under the skin Intramuscular: “ram breed”? applying Can medication you give for an the example benefit of of the each? animal into the muscle
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