Livestock Production Diagnostic Test

Market lambs can eat grass and be ready for slaughter without eating grain

• True
• False

Mastitis is a respiratory disease.

• True
• False

The  average gestation length of a ewe is 9 months.

• True
• False

Which substance is used to treat a disease?

• Fertilizer
• Antibiotic
• Vaccine
• Implant

What is creep feed?

• locking a ram up at night
• exercising market lambs
• providing extra feed for nursing lambs
• bagging a ewe

A three year old slaughter wether will have a break joint

• True
• False

1.  What is a prolapse?

• A feed additive
• when the vagina becomes inverted and sticks out
• a medicine
• lamb born backwards

When a lamb is born you should

• check the ewes udder
• dip the naval in an iodine solution
• identify the lamb with tattoo or ear tag
• all of the above

sheared wool is now packed in

• burlap bags
• plastic bags
• cardboard boxes
• none of these

The major source of income for sheep producers is the sale of market lambs

• true
• false