Sheep/Goat

Question 1

What kind of goats do we have?

Answer 1

Mostly Boer, meat goats.

Also some kiko and crosses between the two.

Question 2

WHen are goats bred?

Answer 2

Fall. Kid in the spring.

Question 3

Majorty of our sheep? Describe

Answer 3

Polled dorset. Wothout horns and can bred outside of season.

Question 4

What was the name of the first polled dorset? Unique?

Answer 4

Ram 402. All polled dorset can be traced back to him.

Created at NCSU!!

Question 5

What other sheep do we have?

Answer 5

Suffolk, Hampshire

A crossbred of those two often called black face sheep.

Question 6

Why called black face sheep?

Answer 6

Black hair on face instead of wool.

Question 7

What is the hair breed of sheep?

Answer 7

Katahdin.

Question 8

What can Katahdin do?

Answer 8

Use their tail to store fat!

Question 9

What is currently being indroduced? Why?

Answer 9

Finnsheep. KNown for fertility.

Question 10

When are sheep bred? When lamb?

Answer 10

Early spring (march) and lamb early fall (aug sep)

Question 11

Who normally has their tailed docked? Why>

Answer 11

Wool breeds. For hygine and health.

Question 12

What can happen if undocked?

Answer 12

Waste product gets stuck on tail, flies lay their eggs, causes flystrike.

Question 13

What is flystrike?

Answer 13

The maggots from the flies eat away at the sheep skin.

Question 14

How are sheep castrated and docked? Why?

Answer 14

With bands. When several day olds. Are bloodless.

Question 15

Why trim feet?

Answer 15

Prevents foot rot!

Question 16

What is foot rot caused by?

Answer 16

anaerobic bacteria.

Question 17

Why does trimming stop foot rot.

Answer 17

Keeps the foot exposed to air, kills bacteria.

Question 18

Fot root causes

Answer 18

Portions of the bone to get eaten away. Results in lameness and unable to walk.

Question 19

How do you know if an animal needs to be treated for parasites?

Answer 19

Color of the inside of the eyelids.

Question 20

What is a good color for eyelid?

Answer 20

Red is good. Pale and white is bad.

Question 21

What is used to compare color?

Answer 21

Famacha score cards.

Question 22

When shearing or trimmin, what should you do?

Answer 22

Throwing them.

Question 23

What does throwing a sheep mean?

Answer 23

They are placed on their rump with legs off the group so they dont struggle.

Question 24

Where cant a sheep see?

Answer 24

Right behind their rump.

Question 25

How much vison do sheep have?

Answer 25

270 degrees.

Question 26

What is a sheeps flight zone?

Answer 26

MInimum zone of confort that sheep maintain between themselves and others.

Question 27

What is a sheeps flight distance?

Answer 27

How far they will run when their flight zone is violated.

Question 28

What influences flight zone and distance?

Answer 28

Genetics and previous experiances.

Question 29

When handling sheep, what five things should be kept in mind?

Answer 29

1) Sheep move more readily when the wind in their faces than at their backs;

2) Sheep move more readily going uphill than downhill;

3) Sheep have a tendency to move toward light;

4) Sheep often refuse to cross a shadow; and

5) Sheep are extremely sensitive to excessive noise and high frequency sounds.

Question 30

Why bone called break joint?

Answer 30

Can be broken with pressure.

Question 31

In adult sheep, what does the break joint become?

Answer 31

The spool joint.

Question 32

When a lamb is born, what does it have?

Answer 32

4 pairs of teeth of temperary incisors in ints lower jaw.

Question 33

What happens to sheep age as they get older?

Answer 33

Each year, one paur of the temperatory incisors is replaced with perminante incisors.

begins with the center pair and moving out.