Small Ruminant Breed ID Flashcards
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Identify this sheep breed:
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Suffolk
- Black-faced, open-faced meat sheep; large breed!!, remember they are black everywhere; no horns; NO WOOL ON FACE
- Used to sire lamb chops— to get ram lambs.
- Most common breed in NA
- Spider-leg gene problem-legs are too long
- Big butt gene problem: CALLIPYGE
- Scrapie is a genetic condition –> Encephalopathy
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Nubian
- All purpose breed
- Hornless
- Ears must extend at least one inch beyond muscle
- Low milk yield but high in butter fat content
- Roman nose
3
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This breed serves as a model for which one of the following human diseases:
- Cystic fibrosis
- Melanoma
- Myotonia congenita
- Creutzfield-Jacob disease
- Tay-Sachs disease
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Tay-Sachs disease
Pictured is a Jacob Sheep
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Merino
- Most common in SA and Australia
- Prized for its WOOL
- Have the finest, softest wool of any sheep
- Poll merinos: have no horns
- Horned merinos: long spiral horns close to head
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Oberhasli
- Two black strips down the face from above each eye to a black muzzle
- Black belly and udder
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Virgin Island White
- Caribbean
- Most are white with some solid tan, brown, black or white with brown or black spots
- Usually resistant to internal parasites
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Romanov
- Russian sheep
- Adapted to cold inland climate and local feeding
- Short-tailed sheep breeds
- Pure black when born, but as they grow older the color quickly changes to gray
- Ewes tend to lamb in litters
- This is a “pure gene” not a cross
- Their wool is strong and resourceful; used for rugs, mats and wall hangings
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Boer
- South African breed
- Honred
- Looped ears
- Early maturing
- Highly resistant to parasites
- White bodies with distinctive brown or red heads
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Southdown
- Best suited for farm flock production
- Medium to small size with a gray to mouse-brown face and lower legs and is polled
- Produce meaty lamb carcasses
- Adapted to varied and wet climates
- Typically have curly white coats
- Have good quality wool
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African Pygmy
- Exotic
- Usually used as pets
- Duel purpose breed
- Horned
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Alpine
- Horned
- Bucks have roached hair along the spine
- White strip down the face
- Good milkers with large well shaped udders and well placed teats of desirable shape
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Saanen
- Totally white to cream color
- Both sexes are horned
- Erected ears
- No roman nose
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Spanish
- Body, ears, horns and color are not consistent
- Watched endanger species
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Dorset
- Known mostly for its prolific lambing; has two lambing seasons per year
- Both horned/polled are all white sheep and medium size
- Fleece is very white, strong and free from dark fiber
- Also has curly horns
- Can produce fine quality wool but is know more to produce a fine desirable carcass
- Southdown x Portland = Dorset
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Jacob
- Multi-horned sheep, patterned with black and white spots
- Grown for their wool, meat and hides, also good pets
- Small, angular with triangular faces, thin legs, long bodies with sloped rumps
- Should be NO wool forward of their horns or on their cheeks; no wool on legs or the scrotum/udder
- Tail long if not docked; both ewes and rams have horns usually 2 or 4 sometimes up to 6 horns
- Hardy animals with high resistance to parasites and disease
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Friesian
- Naturally woolless tail – “Rat tail”
- Milk sheep – take lambs off at birth and keep them on milk for 35 days
- Has the highest milk production of the improved dairy sheep breeds
- They are a docile, large size, open white faced, polled breed with a coarse grade staple length wool
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Barbados Blackbelly
- Caribbean
- Tolerate heat well and have more stamina than other sheeps
- Have coarse hair instead of wool
- Breed all year round unlike most domestic sheep
- Strong market for their lean and mild-flavored meat
- Very disease resistant and parasite tolerant
- Black stripes on the face and black legs, belly, inguinal region, chin and chest
- True sheep, even though look like goats
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Saanen
- Totally white to cream color
- Both sexes are horned
- Erected ears
- No roman nose
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Toggenburg
- Brown with white erect ears with dark spots on them
- White strip down the face
- Noted for excellent udder condition and high milk production
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Texel
- Popular lean meat sheep in US, Australia, NZ, Europe
- Heavily muscled sheep
- White faced breed with no wool on the head or legs
- Characterized by distinctive short, wide face with a black nose and widely placed, short ears with a nearly horizontal carriage
- Black hooves
- Wool is of medium grade with no black fibers
- BEST: remarkable muscle development and leanness
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Rambouillet
- Found in Western USA
- Breed is known for its wool, but also for its meat, both lamb and mutton
- Dual-purpose breed
- Very tall sheep
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Hampshire
- Considered a larger, coarser and hardier “Southdown”
- It is a “down breed”
- Black face with wool on the face!
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Angora
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Kept for its fiber, mohair
- Similar to wool except it is smoother and thinner
- Very susceptible to parasites
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La Mancha
- Very short ears
- High butter fat content
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Katahdin
- Do not produce a fleece therefore do not require shearing
- Ideal for pasture lambing and grass/forage based management systems
- Significantly tolerant of internal/external parasites
