Sheep Management Practices
Exam Test/105 Questions with
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Sheep provide which two sources of cash income? - -Meat and Wool
-Which breeds account for more than 50% of the worlds sheep
population? - -Fine Wool Breeds
-Which breeds are large framed and capable of producing high quality,
high yielding fleeces? - -Medium Wool Breeds
-Which breeds produce high yielding fleeces and are popular among
hand spinners? - -Long Wool
-Describe the Southdown breed - -Smaller and white in color with a
grayish face
-Which breed is the largest white faced breed in the United States? - -
Dorset
-What is the most productive dairy breed? - -East Friesian
-Which breeds are known for their multiple births? - -Prolific
-Hair sheep put on a coat of coarse in _______ _________ and shed the
Wool going into ________ _________, leaving a _______ _______ ___ ______. -
-Winter months, summer months, slick coat of hair
-Which operations provide the genetics of which commercial sheep
production systems are based around? - -Purebred
-Commercial sheep production is aimed toward... - -Maximizing
production and the market value of offspring
-What is the average live weight of a slaughter lamb? - -140 lbs,
dressing is 50% and 70lbs is from the carcass
-What are the USDA quality grades for lamb? - -prime, choice, good,
utility, cull
-What are sheep classified as what? - -Ruminants
-What is known as the death of livestock due to predators? - -
Depredation
-What is the first limiting nutrient in an animals diet? - -Water
, -What is a disease brought on by heavy feeding over a period of time? -
-overeating or enterotoxemia
-What causes stiffness or rigor in the bodys muscles - -Tetanus or Lock
Jaw
-Urinary calculi is a disease which causes stones or crystals to form... - -
in the urinary tract and usually occurs when animals are fed a high
concentrate diet or do not drink enough water due to unclean tanks.
-What disease is otherwise known as nutritional muscular dystrophy
and causes the degeneration of muscle in lambs? - -White Muscle
-What causes ulcerations and scabs around the lips and in the mouth of
a sheep and can spread to the udder of a ewe? - -sore mouths
-Selection of market lambs are based on what three main factors? - -
weight, finish, and muscle
-What is also known as cover, and is the term used for market animals.
It is also external fatness of an animals? - -Finish
-What is wool evaluated as and what does it mean? - -grease fleece
meaning the wool in the condition in which is shorn before washing a
scouring
-what of the fleece is an estimate of the percentage of the amount of
clean wool fibers which will be obtained after the scouring process? - -
yield
-What refers to the fibron micron diameter of the wool - -fineness or
grade
-What is a number that describes the level of flesh or fat that an animal
possesses? - -Body Condition Score
-How long is a sheep's gestation period? - -148 days or 5 months
-What does gestation end with? - -parturition or birth
-What is the term used for trouble giving birth? - -Dystocia
-What is filled with antibodies from the mother, and paves the road for
the futures health, immunity and survival of the young? - -Colostrum
-What is the traditional weaning age for lambs? - -3 months
-What three ways can we identify animals? - -ear tagging, notching, and
ear tattooing
Exam Test/105 Questions with
Verified Solutions
Sheep provide which two sources of cash income? - -Meat and Wool
-Which breeds account for more than 50% of the worlds sheep
population? - -Fine Wool Breeds
-Which breeds are large framed and capable of producing high quality,
high yielding fleeces? - -Medium Wool Breeds
-Which breeds produce high yielding fleeces and are popular among
hand spinners? - -Long Wool
-Describe the Southdown breed - -Smaller and white in color with a
grayish face
-Which breed is the largest white faced breed in the United States? - -
Dorset
-What is the most productive dairy breed? - -East Friesian
-Which breeds are known for their multiple births? - -Prolific
-Hair sheep put on a coat of coarse in _______ _________ and shed the
Wool going into ________ _________, leaving a _______ _______ ___ ______. -
-Winter months, summer months, slick coat of hair
-Which operations provide the genetics of which commercial sheep
production systems are based around? - -Purebred
-Commercial sheep production is aimed toward... - -Maximizing
production and the market value of offspring
-What is the average live weight of a slaughter lamb? - -140 lbs,
dressing is 50% and 70lbs is from the carcass
-What are the USDA quality grades for lamb? - -prime, choice, good,
utility, cull
-What are sheep classified as what? - -Ruminants
-What is known as the death of livestock due to predators? - -
Depredation
-What is the first limiting nutrient in an animals diet? - -Water
, -What is a disease brought on by heavy feeding over a period of time? -
-overeating or enterotoxemia
-What causes stiffness or rigor in the bodys muscles - -Tetanus or Lock
Jaw
-Urinary calculi is a disease which causes stones or crystals to form... - -
in the urinary tract and usually occurs when animals are fed a high
concentrate diet or do not drink enough water due to unclean tanks.
-What disease is otherwise known as nutritional muscular dystrophy
and causes the degeneration of muscle in lambs? - -White Muscle
-What causes ulcerations and scabs around the lips and in the mouth of
a sheep and can spread to the udder of a ewe? - -sore mouths
-Selection of market lambs are based on what three main factors? - -
weight, finish, and muscle
-What is also known as cover, and is the term used for market animals.
It is also external fatness of an animals? - -Finish
-What is wool evaluated as and what does it mean? - -grease fleece
meaning the wool in the condition in which is shorn before washing a
scouring
-what of the fleece is an estimate of the percentage of the amount of
clean wool fibers which will be obtained after the scouring process? - -
yield
-What refers to the fibron micron diameter of the wool - -fineness or
grade
-What is a number that describes the level of flesh or fat that an animal
possesses? - -Body Condition Score
-How long is a sheep's gestation period? - -148 days or 5 months
-What does gestation end with? - -parturition or birth
-What is the term used for trouble giving birth? - -Dystocia
-What is filled with antibodies from the mother, and paves the road for
the futures health, immunity and survival of the young? - -Colostrum
-What is the traditional weaning age for lambs? - -3 months
-What three ways can we identify animals? - -ear tagging, notching, and
ear tattooing
