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Sheep and Goat Industry Questions

Total questions: 150

Worksheet time: 7hrs 5mins

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Class
Date
1.

What drives the sheep and goat industry?

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2.

Ovis Aries is what species of livestock?

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3.

Capra Hircus is what species of livestock?

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4.

What type of acid makes goat stink and ability to tell anestrous heat?

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5.

Low sheep numbers cause which environmental issue?

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6.

From 1880-1940's what did the sheep industry look like?

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7.

The wool and mohair incentive program (a tariff) was begun in what year?

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8.

When was the wool and mohair incentive plan lost?

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9.

What started being produced in the 70's?

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10.

Why did we loose the ability to use leg hold traps?

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11.

Increase in deer hunting

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12.

During the 40's and 50's which breed saved agriculture in Texas

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13.

Introduction of Boer goat effect which breeds of goats

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14.

What was popular in the sheep and goat industry?

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15.

Cost of land, fence and water prohibited what?

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16.

What are goats susceptible to?

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17.

What is the average sheep and cow herd?

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18.

Predators are the number 1 problem for which industry?

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19.

What state leads the sheep and goat production?

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20.

What is the main expense in production?

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21.

Efficient use of land?

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22.

What production does Texas focus primarily?

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23.

Wool makes more money then lamb in TX?

a)

True

b)

False

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25.

The barberpole worm is what kind of parasite?

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26.

What is the new idea to protect livestock?

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27.

What does China lead in the sheep and goat industry?

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28.

What are the main predators of a farm flock?

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29.

In a feedlot setting what concentration diets are lambs on?

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30.

How much corn is in their diets?

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31.

High forage allows for them to put on fat quicker

a)

True

b)

False

32.

At what weight does a lamb enter the feedlot?

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33.

What are the major diseases in the sheep and goat?

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34.

Why is Clostridium perfringes type C&D so deadly?

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35.

How can the major sheep and goat diseases be prevented?

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36.

What product drives the pork industry?

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37.

The swine industry is not critical on health

a)

True

b)

False

38.

What do most swine production systems look like?

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39.

What waste product is high in value?

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40.

How is the waste product (in pork industry) correctly utilized in production crops?

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41.

What are the key economic traits in the swine industry?

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42.

What is the proper growth rate in lbs?

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43.

What is the Loin Eye Average?

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44.

What comes from the pork belly?

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45.

What industry improves very fast?

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46.

What health issue is associated with free-range pork?

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47.

What industry is increasingly health conscious

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48.

Why are gestation stalls used in pork reproduction?

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49.

What is African Swine Fever? PRRS? Sudo Rabies?

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50.

What does close confinement in a pig operation breed?

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51.

What route of the pork industry allows for cleanliness?

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52.

Slatted floors are involved in swine farms because of?

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53.

Boar stud is extremely high in which health safety protocol?

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54.

Farrowing barn is controlled, how so?

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55.

How and why are farrowing crates utilized?

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56.

How long are estrous cycles in sows?

(a)  

57.

How long after weaning is the first estrus?

(a)  

58.

When do piglets enter nursery and why?

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59.

lysine

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60.

Which amino acid is required in a pigs diet?

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61.

What is limited if lysine is not included in the body?

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62.

What is entry approximation weight and age?

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63.

What are contract growers?

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64.

What is the ADG in the finishing state?

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65.

What 4 things happen to baby pigs?

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66.

Poultry industry is vertically integrated

a)

True

b)

False

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What health management system is used by the poultry industry?

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68.

What expands as chickens get older?

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69.

What is chicken manure high in?

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70.

What is in nutrient recycle?

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71.

What local farm is a big poultry facility?

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72.

What age is sexual maturity in poultry?

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73.

How many days is it to hatch chicks?

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74.

How many days to hatch turkey?

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75.

How often are eggs produced?

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76.

What is ideal hatchery?

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77.

How to make the animal comfortable is known as?

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78.

What is the cheapest and most effective way to keep animals cool?

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79.

What is a long term change, typically genetic?

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80.

What is acclimation?

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81.

What is the term when the body has to make an adjustment?

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82.

What is the thermal neutral zone?

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83.

Effective

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84.

What is the temperature where we can provide adjustments?

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85.

Evaporation with high moisture will decrease the cool down rate

a)

True

b)

False

86.

What is each species body temp?

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87.

What factors affect critical temp.?

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88.

What is Thyroxine? T3&T4

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89.

What is needed for growth?

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90.

What is increased during cold sorters and decreased during heat stress?

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91.

What are steroids utilized for?

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92.

What time of the year is limiting to livestock production and susceptible to heat stress?

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93.

What are the benefits to evaporative cooling, specifically to control heat stress?

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94.

Which species is evaporative cooling more prevalent?

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95.

Where must evaporative cooling systems be used?

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96.

Increased blood flow = ?

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97.

Negative associated with refrigeration?

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98.

Why/where is zone cooling used?

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99.

Fans are used to move air

a)

True

b)

False

100.

Why is ventilate important in livestock facilities?

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101.

Why must moisture be removed?

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102.

Why is ammonia hard on the lungs?

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103.

Why with a wind chill is it best to block the north and open to the south?

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104.

What happens when a wind chill occurs?

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105.

What increases during temperature stress?

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106.

What impacts amount of water consumed?

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107.

Feed and water needs

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108.

What increases 50-100% during heavy stress?

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109.

Why must a trough have enough space?

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110.

What contributes to high stress?

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111.

Feed intake is increased during heat stress. T/F

a)

True

b)

False

112.

Why do producers "top dress" rations?

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113.

What do producers "top dress" rations with?

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114.

What period increases the energy density of the diet?

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115.

During heat stress what happens to fiber in the diet?

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116.

Where is melatonin produced in the body?

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117.

What effects do light have on animal performance?

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118.

What animal waste management practices are frequently used?

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119.

What are sheep susceptible to?

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120.

What is B.A.T (Brown Adipose Tissue)?

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121.

What is the difference between pathology and etiology?

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122.

What are required to be classified of an infectious disease?

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123.

How do we enhance animal resistance to pathogens?

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124.

How do we fight internal and external parasites?

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125.

What is passive immunity?

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126.

What is active immunity?

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127.

What is the soar mouth vaccine?

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128.

What do milk fever, urinary calculi, and ketosis all have in common?

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129.

What is the metabolic problem of eating too much?

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130.

How long do we isolate/quarantine new animals?

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131.

What are the body temperatures for every species?

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132.

What is coryneo bacteria pseude?

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133.

What species is mainly effected by coryneo bacteria pseude?

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134.

Toxoplasmosis removes what vital part out of the placenta?

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135.

What does Q-fever come from?

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136.

What diseases/ pathogens are regularly prevented?

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137.

What does APHIS stand for?

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138.

Why can we not wear shoes in production operations?

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139.

How are market classes separated?

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140.

USDA grades are involuntary. T/F

a)

True

b)

False

141.

How are feeder cattle graded?

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142.

How usual is it to use feeder grading in hogs?

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143.

What weigh are feeder lambs?

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144.

What are the frame sizes for cattle?

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145.

What are the muscle thickness scores in cattle?

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146.

What is the mathematical equation for dressing percentage?

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147.

Which factors influence the dressing percentage?

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148.

How is beef grading paid?

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149.

What determines cattle efficiency?

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150.

What is the average feed per gain?

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