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- 1. Multiple Choice
Medium wool breeds were bred for both wool and meat?
True
False
- 2. Multiple Choice
Meat breeds were developed primarily for lamb production?
True
False
- 3. Multiple Choice
When establishing a small flock, you should select ewes of different ages?
True
False
- 4. Multiple Choice
The normal temperature of a mature sheep?
98.6
102.3
105
107.5
- 5. Multiple Choice
The average gestation period of a ewe is?
138-145 days
144-152 days
121-138 days
over 152 days
- 6. Multiple Choice
The first stomach of a sheep is called the?
Rumen
Retriculum
Omasum
Abomasum
- 7. Multiple Choice
which of the following is not a good practice when a shearer is coming in the morning to shear your sheep?
Feed the sheep heavy the night before the shearer comes
Put the sheep in the barn that night
Have the area prepared where the shearing is to be done
Have a source of electrical power at the shearing are ready when the shearer arrives
- 8. Multiple Choice
The highest USDA carcass quality grade is
Commercial
Select
Choice
Prime
- 9. Multiple Choice
A newborn lamb must receive colostrum milk because it is?
laxative
High in antibodies
High in Vitamins
All of these
- 10. Multiple Choice
it is recemmended that for good maintenance lambs weighing from 70 to 100 pounds should receive the following ration?
35% roughage
65% grain& crude protein
60% roughage
40% grain & crude protein
50 % roughage
50% grain & crude protein
20% roughage
80% grain & crude protein
- 11. Multiple Choice
A lamb with live weight of 116 pounds and a carcass weight of 58 pounds has a dressing percent of?
60
50
1.66
100
- 12. Multiple Choice
it is recommended that lambs be weaned when they are?
60-90 days
0-30 days
20-50 days
10-40 days
- 13. Multiple Choice
Lambs are docked in order to ?
keep from getting to long
Meet breed standards
Keep rear area clean and dry
Grow faster
- 14. Multiple Choice
it is recommended that market lambs be wormed how many times during 60-90 day ownership before the fair?
2
5
1
4
- 15. Multiple Choice
Bacteria that lives in the wall of the hoof and sole and dissolves in the tissue into a foul smelling grey liguid causes?
bluetongue
overeating disease
foot rot
soremouth
- 16. Multiple Choice
generally the healthiest, fastest gaining lambs are affected first by?
Soremouth
Tetanus
White Muscle Disease
Overeating Disease
- 17. Multiple Choice
A lamb showing stiffness of legs and difficulty in moving or walking with eyes still remaining bright and clear is showing symptoms of?
Pneumonia
sore mouth
foot rot
enterotoxemia
tetanus
- 18. Multiple Choice
Foot Rot is spread by?
gravel &wet condition
a virus
heredity
shearing
marking the lamb
- 19. Multiple Choice
After treating a lamb for lamb for Foot Rot by trimming hooves and chemicals baths, you should put the lamb in a pen that has not had sheep present for?
A year
6 months
1 month
1 week
3 weeks
- 20. Multiple Choice
An intramuscular shot is given?
Under the skin
In the muscle
In the vein
Under the muscle
- 21. Multiple Choice
A subcutaneous shot is given?
Under the skin
In the muscle
In the vein
Under the muscle
- 22. Multiple Choice
An animal too straight in the hind legs is?
cow hocked
post legged
sickle hocked
- 23. Multiple Choice
Feedstuffs high in digestible nutrients and low in fiber are?
roughage
concentrates
proteins
- 24. Multiple Choice
Term for amount of fat on a market lamb?
Shrink
Pregnant
Condition
Conformation
- 25. Multiple Choice
Situiation: Its late summer and going into the fall, the pasture has been irrigated all year and one end of the field is always wet. In the evening you have gnats flying about. You have just sheared the ewes, what should you watch for?
Foot Rot
Pneumonia
Blue Tongue
Scours
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