Sheep and Goats

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Sheep and Goats

• Agri-science
• Mr. Bailey

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How many sheep/goat products can you name

• Meat (chevon for goat)
• Milk
• Chammy (leather from sheep/goats)
• Medicine (adrenaline)

• Clothing (wool, cashmere, mohair)
• Lanolin (grease from sheep wool, used in hand
  lotion)

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Sheep!!!!!

• Over 7.8 million sheep in the U.S.
• Provide average of 1.7 lbs. meat and 0.8 lbs. of
  wool per person
• Raised where other animals cannot be (climate or
  food availability)

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Sheep!!!!!

• Efficient in converting feed to meat
• Different breed for different purposes

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Goats!!!!

• Low importance economically
• Prefer to eat twigs and leaves
• Mohair is hair taken from angora goats and is
  used to make a wooly fabric

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Breeds of Sheep

• Dorset
• Hampshire
• Suffolk

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Breeds of Goats

• Pygmy goats
• Cashmere
• French Alpine
• Boer

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Five Types of Production

• Farm Flock
• Purebred Flock
• Range Band Method
• Confinement
• Lamb Feeding Production

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Favorable Factors

• Easily raised
• Dual income
• Less susceptible to disease
• Return of investment fast
• Suited for young people

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Unfavorable Factors

• Price for wool changes
• Consumption not as common
• Cotton and other materials taken place of wool
• More susceptible to parasites
• Can be killed by predators easily

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Exit Slip

• Name three of the five products that sheep
  provide for people.
• Name one breed of sheep and one breed of goats.
• Name two of the five types of production using in
  sheep/goat operations.