Sheep

seedstock

selling genetics

commercial

selling meat

feedlot

feed out animals to slaughter weight

farm flock

contained in an area

range flock

out in 10,000+ acres (gregarious sheep)

Concentrates

cereal, grains, corn, barley, wheat, oats, milo, and rye

Vitamins

selenium and iodine

What is a bad mineral for sheep?

copper

Facilities

shelter, open sheds, shade, windbreaks

equipment

chute, electric fence, woven wire

Shear

everything comes off

crutch

shear the butt/crotch area

fly strike

hot spot/ skin damage and irritation

prolapsed

vaginal and rectum

mouthing

1 set every year (2 teeth)

fleece

head to dock

breech/britch

wool on legs (not good quality)

Lanolin/yolk

oils from the sheep in the wool

Sebaceous

Is the oil gland

How is sheep wool measured?

Microns (lower number is better quality)

Scouring

cleaning the wool

staple length

how long it is naturally

Crimp

natural wave

felt

sheet of matted wool

3 segments

1. rump

2. loin

3. rack

flushing

inclining plain of nutrition

accelerated lambing

the ability to produce three sets of lambs in a two year period

creep area

space for the lamb with out mom

lambing jug

space for lambs with mom

enterotoxemia

over eating disease

ketosis

lack of energy late in gestation

Gregarious

flocks

allelomimetics

copy

hair breeds

merino, katahdin, and dorper

long wool breeds

border liecester and Lincoln

wether

castrated male sheep

Carcass

Meat sheep

Maternal

milking sheep

spider syndrome

skeletal deformity

entropion

turned in eyelids

sore mouth

blisters ewes teats and lamb mouths

accelerated lambing

1 month- flushing

1 month- breed

5 months- gestation

30-45 days- lactation

1 month- dry

traditional lambing

1 month- flush

1 month- breed

5 months- gestation

2-3 months- lactation

2-3 months dry