Meat and Mutton, Dairy breeds of sheep and goat Flashcards
English Longwool mutton
Leicster, blue face
Lincoln, cotswold, cheviot
rams used fro terminal x iand for improvement in other breeds, eg leis cater and Lincoln and merino
English short wool mutton breeds
medium quality wool, breed out of season
- suffolk, south down, Hampshire down, Oxford down
Other mutton breeds
Germn BLACK FACEM, FRENCH - RAMBOULILEET, CHAROLOISS, BLUE DU MAINE
HOLAAND - telex, 4 shank
Goat meat
Boer goat, anglo - Nubian
Milk sheep
prolific, twinning, early puberty, 50-500kg lactation, 150-200d
pr 5-6, fat 6-7
High potential - Friesland, Agassi, lacuna, Sara
Milk Goat
saanen, swis, mediium large
Alpine, hardy, adaptable thrives in many climates
Nubian - high quality, high butterfat milk , short, fine glossy
toggenburg -
La mancha
Nigerian dwarf