Lecture 2: Small Ruminants: Breeds, behavior, Handling and Husbandry Flashcards
What is the correct term for adult female sheep
Ewe
What is the correct term for young female sheep
Ewe lamb
What is the correct term for adult intact male sheep
Ram
What is the correct term for young intact male sheep
Ram lamb
What is the correct term for a castrated sheep
Wether
What is the correct term for sheep in patrurition
Lambing
What is the correct term for adult female goat
Doe
What is the correct term for young female goat
Doeling
What is the correct term for adult intact male goat
Buck
What is the correct term for young adult male goat
Buckling
What is the correct term for castrated male goat
Wether
What is the correct term to describe a goat in patrurition
Kidding
What is the difference between primparous vs multiparous
Primparous refers to female adult who is either about to have her first offspring or has only had 1
Multiparous is >1 pregnancies/births
Sheep or goats: Which species has a filtrum that divides their lip into two
Sheep
Are sheep grazers or browsers
Grazers
Are goats grazers or browsers
Browsers
Sheep or goats: which species have scent glands and where are the located
Sheep, on medial canthus of eyes
Describe the differences in goat vs sheep tails
Goats tails go upright, sheep tails go down
Sheep or goats: have scent glands between their hooves
Sheep
What are the 4 biggest ways to differentiate goats vs sheep
Goats: lack filtrum, tails up, no scent glands in medial canthus, no scent glands in hooves
Sheep: have filtrum, tails down, scent glands in medial canthus of eyes and hooves
Sheep or goat?
goat
What do goats eat
Browsers so lots of leaves off of wood branches, shrubs
What do sheep eats
Grass off the ground
Sheep or goat
Sheep
What sheep is the ancestor for all modern sheep
Mouflon sheep
What type of sheep is this
Mouflon sheep
What are the two classifications of sheep
- Wooled
- Haired
Are the following wool or hair breeds: Hampshire, Suffolk, texel, cheviot, and dorset
Wool
Are the following wool or hair breeds: dormer, Barbados, St. Croix, Katahdin
Hair
Which sheep breed is more likely to get lice, wool or hair
Hair
**if anemic most likely what is happening
what are the two purposes of merino sheep
- Fine wool
- Carcass
What is the main sheep in Australia
Merino sheep
Which sheep have prominent neck folds and wool over entire body
Merino sheep
What is the Merinos sheep most notable trait
Wool
What type of sheep is this
Merino
what sheep breed has long wool with spirals, forelock, bare nose
Lincoln
what type of sheep is this
Lincoln sheep
Which breed of sheep is primarily a large meat breed, also commonly used show breed
Hampshire
Which breed of sheep has thick white wool, black face, ears and limbs, UNBROKEN wool cap
Hampshire
What are some notable traits of Hampshire’s
Fast growing, feed efficiency, good carcass quality
What breed of sheep is this
hampshire
What is one of the major ways to tell difference between Hampshire and Suffolk sheep
Hampshire have an unbroken wool cap whereas Suffolk sheep dont
What breed of sheep are largely meat and show breeds and the most common breed in U.S.
Suffolk
What breed of sheep have white wool, bald black face, black ears/limbs
Suffolk
What are some notable traits of suffolks
Fast growth, feed efficiency, good carcass quality
What sheep breed is a medium sized meat and show breed with a distinctive short and wide face with a black nose and widely placed short ears
Texel
What are some notable traits of the texel sheep
Muscle development, leanness, fast growth and feed efficiency