Management

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Management

• Identification mark lambs with paint brands, or
  ear tags or tattoo ears (purebreds)
• Docking cut off tails
• tails are a bother
• between 1st and 2nd vertebrae of tail
• Elastrator rubber band cuts off circulation
• Hot Iron electric, heated knife stops bleeding

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Management

• Castration remove testicles
• Elastrator
• Cut with a knife
• Burdizzo crushes cords
• Dock Castrate before 6 weeks old
• Wean at 5-6 months or 100 lbs.....
• Shear at least once per year, before lambing
  (20-40 of income)

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Management

• Culling choosing animals not to keep for
  breeding purposes
• Aging Sheep less than 1 yr.. milk teeth
• 1-2 yrs middle two teeth replaced by 2 larger
  teeth
• each year to 4 yrs another set replaced
• 6-7 yrs begin to lose teeth (broken mouth)

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Sheep Terms

• What do you call an adult male?
• Ram or Buck
• What do you call an adult female?
• Ewe
• What do you call the act of giving birth?
• Lambing

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Sheep Terms

• What do you call a castrated male?
• Wether
• What is the gestation for sheep?
• 147 days
• What do you call a young female?
• Ewe Lamb

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Cheviot
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Columbia
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Dorset
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Finn
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Hampshire
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Lincoln
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Merino
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Polypay
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Rambouilette
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Romanov
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Southdown
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Suffolk
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Targhee
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Texel
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Goats
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Alpine
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Angora
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Cashmere
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