Questions For Fitting And Showing Competitions: Sheep (Page 2 of 2) in pdf

17. What is a normal birth weight for a lamb?

18. What would be an average life expectancy for a ewe?

19. How many stomachs does a sheep have?

20. Name the stomachs of a sheep?

21. What do you call an animal with four stomachs?

22. Name two grains.

23. Can you safely feed beef feed to your lamb? Why or why not?

24. Can you safely feed swine feed to your lamb? Why or why not?

25. Name one vitamin and one mineral contained in your sheep feed.

26. What do you like or dislike about this lamb?

27. If you could improve your lamb what part or attribute would you change?

28. How did you prepare your lamb for the show?

29. What is the spider gene?

30. Do you know if your lamb is free of the spider gene?

31. What is the callipyge gene?

32. Do you know if your lamb has the callipyge gene?

33. Define Veterinary-Client-Patient Relationship

34. Name one (or more) sheep disease and tell me what you know about it?

35. What is a prolapse? Symptoms? How to treat? (There is more than one type)

36. What is coccidiosis? Symptoms? How to treat?

37. What is polioencephalomalacia? Symptoms? How to treat?

38. What is ovine ecthyma? Symptoms? How to treat?

39. What is mastitis? Symptoms? How to treat?

40. What is pneumonia? Symptoms? How to treat?

41. What is white muscle disease? Symptoms? How to treat?

42. What is grass tetany? Symptoms? How to treat?

43. What are the USDA Lamb Yield Grades?

44. What does USDA Lamb Yield Grade refer to?

45. What factor(s) is (are) used to determine USDA Yield Grade?

46. What is the USDA Yield Grade of your lamb (or that lamb)?

47. What are the USDA Lamb Quality Grades?

48. What does USDA Lamb Quality Grade refer to?

49. What factor(s) is (are) used to determine USDA Quality Grade?

50. What is the ideal market weight (or Yield Grade, fat thickness or ribeye area)?

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