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Week 5 (Sheep & Goats) Flashcards

1
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Where in Texas are most of the sheep population located?

A

Edward’s Plateu

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Extensive Production Systems

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  • southwestern range operations
  • northwestern range operations
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Intensive Production System

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  • farm flock operation
  • lamb feedlot industry
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What are Southwestern Range Operations

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  • use finer wool ewes, most adaptable
  • very little supplemental feed
  • impacts on profit: rain, predators, lamb crop, high quality fleece
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5
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What are Northwestern Range Operations

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  • similar structure to southwest, more supplemental feed
  • goal: fast growing, easily marketed carcass sheep, coarser, heavier fleeced ewes, larger lamb crop
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6
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Farm Flock Sheep Production

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Lamb Production: intensive management 150-200% lamb crop

Maternal (prolific, heavy milking)
Paternal (growth, muscularity)

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Lamb Feedlot Industry

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  • Colorado & Texas led
  • concentrate diets: high energy content
  • goal= maximize average daily gain
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8
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3 parts of Goat Production

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  1. Hair Production
  2. Meat Production
  3. Dairy Production
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9
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What is the hair in goat production?

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Mohair (angora goat) 90% of U.S. production in Texas

Spanish Goat Nannies X cashmere bucks

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10
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Goat Production (meat)

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  • Spanish goat
  • boer goat
  • browse
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11
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Goat Production (dairy)

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  • intensively managed
  • leading states are Wisconsin & California
  • Nubian and saanen
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12
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Reproduction

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Puberty: Rams/Ewes 6 to 8 months
Length of Estrous Cycle: 17 days
Length of Estrus: 30 hours
Ovulation: 15 hours after onset of estrous
Gestation length: 150 days

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13
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Filiform Appendage

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Goat Penis

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Goat Reproduction

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Age of Puberty: 6 to 8 months
Estrous cycle length: 21 days
Estrus Length: 36 hours
Ovulation: 24 hours after estrus
Gestation length: 150 days

  • seasonal breeders (breed in fall, birth in spring)
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15
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Range

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  • extensively managed
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16
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Jugs

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  • intensively managed inside barns (5x5)
17
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Docking

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  • removal of tail
  • two weeks of age
18
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Castrate

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  • removal of testicles
  • four weeks of age
19
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4 ways to dock

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  1. Knife
  2. Emasculator
  3. Elastrator
  4. Electric Docker
20
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4 ways to castrate

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  1. Knife
  2. Elastrator
  3. Burdizzo
  4. Emasculator
21
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Common management practices

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  1. Crutching (shear backside)
  2. Facing (shear face)
  3. Drenching (drain)
  4. Spraying
22
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What animals are used for predator control?

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  • Great Pyrenees
  • donkey
  • llamas
  • Border collies
23
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Age determinate (TEETH)

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1-1.5 years = first pair
1.5-2 years= second pair
2.5-3 years= third pair
3.5-4years= fourth pair

24
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Internal Parasites

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Haemonchus contortus
From grass

25
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External Parasites

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  • flies
  • keds
  • ticks
  • lice
26
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Health Problems

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  1. Starvation
  2. Trauma
  3. Enterotoxemia
  4. Sore Mouth (zoonotic)
  5. Coccidiosis
27
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Front leg problems

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  • buck kneed (too foward)
  • calf kneed (backwards)
  • weak pastures
28
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Hind leg problems

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  • post legged
  • sickle hocked
  • weak pasterns
  • bow legged
  • cow hocked
29
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Correct Mouth Soundness

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  • lower incisors align with dental pad
30
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Overshot Jaw (parrot mouth)

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Hinders intake

31
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Undershot jaw (monkey mouth)

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Hinders intake

32
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Sheep fleece traits

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  • staple
  • density
  • yield
  • uniformity grade
  • fitness
    *color
  • luster
33
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Ewes

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  • commonly, reeders select for multiple births
    Culling auntie rearing ewes increases
34
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Rams

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  • physical assessment of scrotal size and semen evaluation
35
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Genetics Evaluation

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NSIP NATIONAL SHEEP IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM
FEPD FLOCK EXPECTED PROGENY DIFFERENCE

  • maternal, growth, and wool traits
36
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Steps in Wool Production

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  1. Shearing
  2. Grading
  3. Packaging
  4. Storage
  5. Marketing
  6. Manufacturing
37
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Manufacturing

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  1. Sorting
  2. Scouring
  3. Drying
  4. Carding
  5. Carding
38
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Major factors of Wool Evaluation

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  • yield
  • grade
  • staple length
39
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Wool should be free from

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  • black fibers, kemp, excess belly wool

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