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| Shoulder, rack, loin, breast, flank, leg |
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| How many permanent teeth do a 1 year old sheep have? |
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| How many permanent teeth do a 2 year old sheep have? |
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| How many permanent teeth do a 3 year old sheep have? |
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| How many permanent teeth do a 4 year old sheep have? |
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| How many permanent teeth do a older than 4 year old sheep have? |
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| Hard to tell over 4, teeth change. |
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| Name 2 breeds of fine wool sheep. |
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| Name 3 medium wool or meat production breeds. |
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| Suffolk, hampshire, dorset, montadale, shropshire |
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| Romney, winsleydale, lincoln |
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| Where did the hampshire originate from? |
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| Where did the suffolk originate from? |
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| Where did the Columbia originate from? |
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| Name a horned sheep breed. |
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| Rambouillet, dorset horned, |
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| When was your sheep born? |
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| If you had to change something on your lamb what would it be? |
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| Know your confirmation faults. |
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| What does this usda tag mean? |
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| It's provides a flock number to identify the producer to track scrapies.Scrapie is a fatal, degenerative disease affecting the central nervous system of sheep and goats. Infected flocks that contain a high percentage of susceptible animals can experience significant production losses. In these flocks over a period of several years the number of infected animals increases and the age at onset of clinical signs decreases making these flocks economically unviable. Animals sold from infected flocks spread scrapie to other flocks. |
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| What is the gestation period for sheep? |
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| 145-155 or about 5 months. |
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| What are the most valuable cuts of meat on a lamb? |
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neck, shoulder, shank, back,
breast, loin, flank, leg |
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| What is the most prime cut of meat on a lamb? |
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| How many teeth does a lamb have? |
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| 8 incisors and 24 molars. |
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| What is the ideal back fat on a lamb. |
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| 0.4 + ( 10 x adjusted back fat thickness, inches) |
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| What is the % of crude protein in your feed? |
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| Lambs get 18% and my adults get 12% |
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| Name two sheep byproducts. |
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| How many parts are there to the sheep stomach? Can you name them? |
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| 4; rumen, reticulum, abomasums, omasum |
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| What is the normal body temperature of a sheep? |
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| How much do you feed your lamb? |
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| What is the average loin eye size for market lambs? |
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| Name minerals needed to help build bones and teeth. |
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| Salt, calcium, phosphorus, iodine, selenium, |
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| Name some external parasites |
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| Keds, wool magots,lice, leg lice, head grubs |
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| Name some internal parasites |
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| Name some infectious diseases |
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| Entertoxemia, sore mouth, tetanus,vibrosis, leptospirosis, pneumonia, white muscle disease. |
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| Loin chop, loin roast, leg chop |
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