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32 Cards in this Set
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rambouillet
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white faced breed-not prolific under range conditions
descended from spanish merino, but faster and larger purchased by loius XVI dual-purpose |
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other fine wool breeds
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debouillet (delaine merino*rambouillet)
american cormo (1/4 lincoln, 1/4 austin merino, 1/1 superfine saxon merino) |
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medium wool breeds
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meat production
dorset hampshire southdown suffolk |
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dorset
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england
can be horned/polled can breed out of season prolificacy/milking mature early white faced |
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hampshire
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dark brown or black face/ears/legs
sire breed rapid growth muscularity use genetics |
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suffolk
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england
no wool on head/legs black head/legs sire breed alert/active grow fast, produce lean, muscular carcass prolific/milking polled small head |
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southdown
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england
one of the oldest breeds high demand b/c economical medium/small with light brown faces/legs meaty, lightweight carcasses low maitenence average prolificy/milking |
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cheviot
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medium wool
highly adaptable to climates thrive on poor forage conditions |
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oxford
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medium wool
hampshire*cotswold prolific good mothering |
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texel
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medium wool
available to US in 1990 extreme muscling high cutability carcasses |
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dual purpose breeds
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crossbred long and fine wool mainly to improve the carcass quality and the length of the wool fiber
columbia and finnsheep |
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columbia
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US
US sheep experiment station Dubois Idaho lincoln rams*rambouillet ewes largest crossbred breed polled lambs grow fast white faced |
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finnsheep
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finland
incredible prolificacy milking/easy lambing/ maternal poor fleece intensive management required |
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hair sheep:dorper
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south africa
shed naturally-no shearing meat type black or white head with white body very hardy and nonselective eaters |
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age of sheep is determined by
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teeth
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anemia
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may need de-worming
parasites attach themselves to the abomasum and suck blood check skin color on eyelids, or gums |
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parasite control
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"drenching"
anthelmentics cydectin, ivermectin, safe guard |
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coccidia
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scours dont go away
blood in stool lamb is eating but loses weight most prevalent in stressed lambs |
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scours
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caused by changing feed
blood in stool-indicates coccidia |
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soremouth
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contagious ecthyma
caused by a virus transmittable to humans prevention by vaccines scabs around non wooled areas |
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ringworm
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fungus
loss of wool in small circular spots most commonly found in show lambs w exposure to foreign lambs |
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wool biting
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biting wool from other lambs
caused by boredom, not enough roughage, or spilling feed on animals. need to be separated and given hay |
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pneumonia
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raspy breathing
listless, droopy ears, hunched caused by wet, cold, stress, or dust |
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foot rot
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wet conditions
untrimmed feet lambs go lame |
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bloat
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left side swells
mineral oil for prevention |
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choking
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lambs eat too fast
put large rocks or bricks in feed |
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urinary calculi
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water belly
stones in urinary tract-cant pee wethers at greatest risk kicking abdomen, twitching tail removal or urethral process may be necessary put ammonium chloride in feed |
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rectal prolapse
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rectum protrudes out of anal canal
common in short docked can be caused by dust |
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pink eye
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irritated watery eye
inflamed tissue around the eye contagious |
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copper toxicity
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require copper at 5 ppm
deadly if fed at 25 ppm -lethargic,anemic,thirst,teeth grinding happens when sheep feed is made in same place as cattle feed treatment - ammonia sodium drench |
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getting lambs on feed
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complete fresh ration
add alfalfa never change feed rapidly takes a week |
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getting lambs off feed
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give hay
B12, Thiamin, A, D, E pepto or sodium bicarbonate for belly |
