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Animal Management Flashcards

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Herbivore anatomy

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Large, wide flat back teeth (ruminants, no front teeth)

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How does the anatomy change based on diet (example of calf to cow)

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Large abomasum for liquid diet changes to large rumen for digesting plant matter

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Forage

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Any plant matter

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What are the 4 types of pasture?

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Rough grazing, permanent pasture, ley (grass sewn for forage), and rotational grass

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Maize and fodder production

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  • Leaves dry, whole crop chopped and grain cracked
  • Common for dairy due to high DM and starch content
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How does the composition of grass change?

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  • Early grass, high protein
  • Late grass, low protein, more fibrous
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Silage (forage conservation)

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  • Pickled and fermented
  • Grass is cut and oxygen is squeezed out which allows bacteria to break down sugars producing lactic acid and preserves hay
  • Exposure ot oxygen makes it go bad
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Hay (forage conservation)

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  • Dried, nutritive losses
  • Easy to transport, less contamination, small volumes
  • suspect to mould and oxidation
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Haylage (forage conservation)

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  • hay x silage
  • higher water content, prone to spoilage
  • fed to horses
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Straw (forage conservation)

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  • Dried stem of wheat, barely and oats.
  • Given to ruminants on high concentrate diets
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Concentrates

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  • High in protein and energy
  • Need to be fed with roughage in ruminants to avoid acidosis.
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Straights (type of concentrate)

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Individual grain

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Mixes (type of concentrate)

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Variety of grains as museli or pellets

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Cow

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Adult female

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Heifer

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Female who has had 1 or less calves

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Bull

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Male

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17
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Steer/ Bullock

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Castrated male

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Bull Calf

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Male calf

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Calf

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Young bovine

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Dairy cow common management types (3)

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  • Indoor year round (zero-grazing)
  • Outdoors year round
  • Mixed
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Beef cow management types (2)

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  • Intensive- housed and fed concentrates (suitable for later maturing breeds who grow quickly)
  • Extensive- Beef from grass (Early maturing breeds who need to be grown longer)
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Calf nutritional requirements

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  • Colostrum
  • Water (from day 1)
  • Milk
  • Concentrates
  • Forage
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Vet roles in bovine industry

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Abattoir work, government, research, investigation officers

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Dairy cows insemination options

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  • Dairy x Dairy (Bull calfs raised as meat)
  • Dairy x Beef (worth more in beef industry)
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Suckler Herds

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Cows kept purely for beef. (sold as calves, kept on farm until slaughter, sold as stores)

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Store cattle

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Older cows being housed a second winter to fatten on grass and sold under 30 months.

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Holstein- Friesian

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Dairy, black and white, high milk, 680-770kg

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Ayrshire

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Dairy, dark red and white, smaller and hardy, housed mostly outdoors, 450-600kg

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Jersey

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Dairy, milk rich in butterfat, 400-450kg

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Guernsey

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Dairy, red-brown and white patches, high butterfat content, 450-500kg

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Hereford

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Native (slow growing), beef, red with white face and chest, fast growing with food feed conversion

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Aberdeen Angus

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Native (slow growing), beef, black, good calving ease and good milk for young, good feed conversion and naturally polled (no horns)

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Belgium Blue

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Beef, White, blue roan or black, double muscling, struggle to give birth, high feed conversion and good temperament

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Limousin

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Beef, Golden Red, meat has low proportion of bone and fat, high feed conversion

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Simmental

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Beef, Light brown and white patches, Highly efficient, minimal waste fat, docile and good mothering ability

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Difference between horse and pony

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  • Determined by height (foot to withers. Ponies are less than 14.2 hands)
  • 1 hand = 4 inches
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Heavy breeds/ cold bloods and function (UK native - 5)

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  • Strong, easy going
  • Designed to pull farm machinery
  • Inclu. Shire, Clydesdale, Suffolk, Cleaveland Bay, Irish Draught
38
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UK native ponies (Children’s riding ponies) (5)

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Shetland, Dartmoor, Exmoor, New Forest, Welsh

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UK native ponies (Tough, evolved to live in wild places) (3)

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Connemara, Dales, Highland

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Hotbloods

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  • Speedy, less calm
    (ex. Thoroughbred, Standardbred, Quarter Horse, Arab)
41
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Breeds commonly used for competition in UK

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  • Thoroughbred (racing)
  • Warmblood (thoroughbred x cold blood)
  • Irish Sport Horse (Thoroughbred x Irish Draft)
42
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Dressage

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  • Executing complex movements based on control and steering.
  • Exclusively warmbloods
  • “Horse Dancing”
43
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Showjumping

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  • Fastest time to complete jumps without faults (knocking poles, stoping or missing jump)
  • Exclusively warmbloods
44
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Eventing

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  • Triathalon (dressage, cross country, show jumping)
  • Usually Thoroughbred crosses
45
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Racing (and types (2))

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  • Flat racing: shorter distance, no jumps, horses 2-3 years
  • National Hunt racing: longer over fences, horses 4-5 years
46
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Polo

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  • 4 riders per team, hit balls through goal
  • Thoroughbred or thoroughbred cross
47
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Endurance

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  • Long distance races, have to pass vet checkpoints
  • Arab
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Driving

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  • Teams of 1,2,4 horses pull carraige through obstacles
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Showing

50
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Vaulting

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Gymnastics on horseback
- Quite strenuous, constant, steady pace.

51
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Western riding

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Quarter horses, mostly reigning in the UK

52
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Horse management types

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Stabled (stereotypies, respiratory disease), at grass (injuries, skin disease) or combination

53
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Colic

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Abdominal pain due to sudden change in management or feeding

54
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Gastric ulceration

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Due to periods of feed restriction and commonly found in high-intensity exersized horses

55
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Myopathies

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Overexertion, muscle breakdown after exercise

56
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Cow gestation period

57
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Calving interval

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Calf-calf (approx 385 days

58
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When does oestrus happen in calves

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Based on weight

59
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1st service timing

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  • First breeding at 14-15 months, 55-60% of adult body weight
60
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How is cow weight measured?

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Heart girth

61
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Challenges of entering the milk herd

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  • Spending lots of time standing around, poor access to feed, stress
62
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How soon is a cow bred again after giving birth?

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60-85 days

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Early lactation dates

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0-100 days, peak at 5-6 wks, up to 50L a day

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Mid-late lactation (100-305) and how dealing with high and low yielders

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High yielders given high energy diet and vise versa (prevent obesity and trouble calving in low yielders

65
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Dry period and process of drying off

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  • around 60 days
  • Early dry period (far-off cows) and Late dry period (transition cows)
  • Use internal teat sealant and intra-mammary antibiotics, only when needed.
66
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Ewe

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Female sheep

67
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Ram (a.ka. Tup)

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Male sheep

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Lamb

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Young sheep

69
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Gimmer/ Hogget/ Shearling/ Two-tooth and their approximate age

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Young sheep with no more than 2 permanent incisors (usually between 12-19 months)

70
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Wether

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Male castrated sheep

71
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Teaser

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  • Vasectomised sheep that is no longer fertile but maintains desire to mate
  • Used to bring ewes into oestrus
72
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Finished lamb

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Fattened lamb ready for slaughter

73
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Draft ewes

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Older hills used transported to uplands to cross breed

74
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Lambing timing (The sheep year)

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  • Usually in the spring (w/ grass growth and warm weather)
  • Sometimes in December
75
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Spring/ Early summer (The sheep year)

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  • Ewes and lambs grazing (lambs gaining approx 300 grams a day)
  • Ewes may need supplements w/ concentrates and lambs with creep feed
76
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Summer (The sheep year)

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  • Lambs weaned at 8wks
  • Fattened and sold a 5-8 months, approx 40kg
  • Shorn for fly control
77
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Autumn (The sheep year)

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  • Tupping/ mating period 5 months before
  • Rams with ewes for 6-8 weeks (2 oestrus cycles)
  • 1:25 - 1:100
78
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How long is the sheep oestrus cycle?

79
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Pros and cons of stratified sheep breeding system

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  • Able to use all types of land
  • Breeds matched to different land
  • May require movement between pastures
80
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Hills (combinations, elevation)

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  • Hill ewes x Hill rams
  • 500m +
81
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Upland (combinations, elevation)

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  • Draft ewes/ Longwool ewes x Longwool rams
  • (Draft ewes x longwool rams = cross-bred ewes)
  • 300-500m
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Lowland (combinations, elevation)

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  • Cross-bred ewes/ terminal sire ewes x terminal sire rams
  • Less than 300m
83
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Hills sheep characteristics

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  • Hardy, thick coats
  • Good mothers
  • Able to cope with harsh conditions and walk long distances
84
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Hills output

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  • Sold as stores
  • Draft ewes sold to upland
85
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Upland sheep characteristics

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  • More prolific than hills
  • Good mothering ability
86
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Upland output

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  • Mule lambs (draft ewes x longwool rams)
87
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Lowland sheep characteristics

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  • Fast-growing, heavy frame
  • Prolific
88
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Lowland output

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  • Cross-bred lambs (Mule ewe x terminal sire)
  • Fattened store lambs from uplands and hills
89
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Sustainable sheep breeding examples (3)

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  • Lambs that finish quicker on grass
  • Lighter ewes (less food) with same lambing output
  • Ewes w/ less lambing intervention
90
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Sheep sources of income

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  • Meat (increasing)
  • Wool (decreasing)

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