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WorksheetsSheep and Goat Industry Questions
Total questions: 150
Worksheet time: 7hrs 5mins
What drives the sheep and goat industry?
Ovis Aries is what species of livestock?
Capra Hircus is what species of livestock?
What type of acid makes goat stink and ability to tell anestrous heat?
Low sheep numbers cause which environmental issue?
From 1880-1940's what did the sheep industry look like?
The wool and mohair incentive program (a tariff) was begun in what year?
When was the wool and mohair incentive plan lost?
What started being produced in the 70's?
Why did we loose the ability to use leg hold traps?
Increase in deer hunting
During the 40's and 50's which breed saved agriculture in Texas
Introduction of Boer goat effect which breeds of goats
What was popular in the sheep and goat industry?
Cost of land, fence and water prohibited what?
What are goats susceptible to?
What is the average sheep and cow herd?
Predators are the number 1 problem for which industry?
What state leads the sheep and goat production?
What is the main expense in production?
Efficient use of land?
What production does Texas focus primarily?
Wool makes more money then lamb in TX?
True
False
24.
The barberpole worm is what kind of parasite?
What is the new idea to protect livestock?
What does China lead in the sheep and goat industry?
What are the main predators of a farm flock?
In a feedlot setting what concentration diets are lambs on?
How much corn is in their diets?
High forage allows for them to put on fat quicker
True
False
At what weight does a lamb enter the feedlot?
What are the major diseases in the sheep and goat?
Why is Clostridium perfringes type C&D so deadly?
How can the major sheep and goat diseases be prevented?
What product drives the pork industry?
The swine industry is not critical on health
True
False
What do most swine production systems look like?
What waste product is high in value?
How is the waste product (in pork industry) correctly utilized in production crops?
What are the key economic traits in the swine industry?
What is the proper growth rate in lbs?
What is the Loin Eye Average?
What comes from the pork belly?
What industry improves very fast?
What health issue is associated with free-range pork?
What industry is increasingly health conscious
Why are gestation stalls used in pork reproduction?
What is African Swine Fever? PRRS? Sudo Rabies?
What does close confinement in a pig operation breed?
What route of the pork industry allows for cleanliness?
Slatted floors are involved in swine farms because of?
Boar stud is extremely high in which health safety protocol?
Farrowing barn is controlled, how so?
How and why are farrowing crates utilized?
How long are estrous cycles in sows?
(a)
How long after weaning is the first estrus?
(a)
When do piglets enter nursery and why?
lysine
Which amino acid is required in a pigs diet?
What is limited if lysine is not included in the body?
What is entry approximation weight and age?
What are contract growers?
What is the ADG in the finishing state?
What 4 things happen to baby pigs?
Poultry industry is vertically integrated
True
False
What health management system is used by the poultry industry?
What expands as chickens get older?
What is chicken manure high in?
What is in nutrient recycle?
What local farm is a big poultry facility?
What age is sexual maturity in poultry?
How many days is it to hatch chicks?
How many days to hatch turkey?
How often are eggs produced?
What is ideal hatchery?
How to make the animal comfortable is known as?
What is the cheapest and most effective way to keep animals cool?
What is a long term change, typically genetic?
What is acclimation?
What is the term when the body has to make an adjustment?
What is the thermal neutral zone?
Effective
What is the temperature where we can provide adjustments?
Evaporation with high moisture will decrease the cool down rate
True
False
What is each species body temp?
What factors affect critical temp.?
What is Thyroxine? T3&T4
What is needed for growth?
What is increased during cold sorters and decreased during heat stress?
What are steroids utilized for?
What time of the year is limiting to livestock production and susceptible to heat stress?
What are the benefits to evaporative cooling, specifically to control heat stress?
Which species is evaporative cooling more prevalent?
Where must evaporative cooling systems be used?
Increased blood flow = ?
Negative associated with refrigeration?
Why/where is zone cooling used?
Fans are used to move air
True
False
Why is ventilate important in livestock facilities?
Why must moisture be removed?
Why is ammonia hard on the lungs?
Why with a wind chill is it best to block the north and open to the south?
What happens when a wind chill occurs?
What increases during temperature stress?
What impacts amount of water consumed?
Feed and water needs
What increases 50-100% during heavy stress?
Why must a trough have enough space?
What contributes to high stress?
Feed intake is increased during heat stress. T/F
True
False
Why do producers "top dress" rations?
What do producers "top dress" rations with?
What period increases the energy density of the diet?
During heat stress what happens to fiber in the diet?
Where is melatonin produced in the body?
What effects do light have on animal performance?
What animal waste management practices are frequently used?
What are sheep susceptible to?
What is B.A.T (Brown Adipose Tissue)?
What is the difference between pathology and etiology?
What are required to be classified of an infectious disease?
How do we enhance animal resistance to pathogens?
How do we fight internal and external parasites?
What is passive immunity?
What is active immunity?
What is the soar mouth vaccine?
What do milk fever, urinary calculi, and ketosis all have in common?
What is the metabolic problem of eating too much?
How long do we isolate/quarantine new animals?
What are the body temperatures for every species?
What is coryneo bacteria pseude?
What species is mainly effected by coryneo bacteria pseude?
Toxoplasmosis removes what vital part out of the placenta?
What does Q-fever come from?
What diseases/ pathogens are regularly prevented?
What does APHIS stand for?
Why can we not wear shoes in production operations?
How are market classes separated?
USDA grades are involuntary. T/F
True
False
How are feeder cattle graded?
How usual is it to use feeder grading in hogs?
What weigh are feeder lambs?
What are the frame sizes for cattle?
What are the muscle thickness scores in cattle?
What is the mathematical equation for dressing percentage?
Which factors influence the dressing percentage?
How is beef grading paid?
What determines cattle efficiency?
What is the average feed per gain?
