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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
Stated 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 States. 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