Goat and Sheep Breeds Flashcards
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Suffolk: large frame sheep, born black, no wool on face, black legs and face, meat breed, show lambs, sire line
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Dorset: pulled and horned variations, maternal line, market lamb most common, some will breed out of season/ year round, 120-175 lbs adults
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Dorset: pulled and horned variations, maternal line, market lamb most common, some will breed out of season/ year round, 120-175 lbs adults
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Finn Sheep/ Finnish Landrace: dainty medium sized sheep, have short tails, produce litters not unusual to have 5 lambs more likely to get pregnancy toxemia,
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Hampshire: meat breed of sheep, look like suffolk but have wool on face, grow fast
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Cheviot: perky ears, medium sized, hardy
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Texel: medium sized, white, UK dies them orange, the bull dog of the sheep world stocky wide faces/heads
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St. Croix: sheep breed developed in Virgin Islands, flighty, parasite resistant, shed out, don’t dock, good moms, lamb easy, hardy
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Barbados Black Belly: hair sheep, rams have beard, hardy, parasite resistant, don’t dock, flighty,
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Katahdin: 3 way cross hair sheep, developed in Maine, variety of colors, good moms, don’t dock, less flighty
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Dorper: cross btw dorset and black persian, hair sheep shed wool, parasite resistant, stocky
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Merino: wool sheep, wrinkles increase surface area increasing wool, horned
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Boer: show goat, came from Africa, white body colored hood, chunky males close to 300lbs, meat goat
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Kiko: dual purpose goats, originally from new Zealand, meat goats in US, big horns, variety of colors, little parasite resistance
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Spanish goats: hardy, parasite resistant, scrub goat/ mutts hybrid vigor, meat goat
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Saanen: dairy goat, white, perky
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Alpine: dairy goat, french, various colors, dark legs, eye markings
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Toggenburg: swiss dairy goats, variety of colors, white feet, butt like deer, blaze eye markings
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Nubian (Anglo-nubian): dairy goat, jersey of the goat world, milk has the highest fat content, friendly, vocal, big ears, roman nose
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La Mancha: dairy goat, small non apparent pinna of ears, prone to ear problems, variety of colors
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Oberhasli: dairy goat, stripe on back, look like bay horse, black legs
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Nigerian Dwarf Goat: dairy goat, friendly easy handling, 1 quart twice a day
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East Friesian Sheep: dairy sheep, variety of colors, rat tails with no wool
