SEPTEMBER 2013 HOMEWORK 1
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5. Visit sheepandgoat.com.
What are seven economic traits that the Barbados Black Belly sheep have? Also under sheep breeds find the Awassi. What is a special characteristic of this breed and in what part of the world are they particularly desirable?
6. What is the Navajo Churro sheep breed and who introduced this breed to the Americas?
7. Check out the miniature sheep breeds at Smokey Valley Farm.
Also, check out Babydoll Southdown Sheep here.
8. Which Kenyan sheep breed is important because of genetic resistance to parasitism?
10. What is the callipgye gene in sheep and is it a blessing or a curse? What is the Booroola gene and what does it do? What is the Carwell gene and what does it do?
11. When were goats domesticated, according to the Oklahoma State University website?
12. Where did Boer goats originate?
14. Go to this website. What is this breed used for and where did it originate?
What are some of the uses for this breed?
15. Here is the link to fainting goat video on YouTube.
Sheep and Goat Breed Information
1. What are the Five Freedoms of Animal Welfare?
39. Further information on enterotoxemia in lambs and kids can be found at this site.
40. Here is the link to the AASRP. This website has information about urinary
41. This link will take you to information about "orf."
42. Coccidiosis in sheep is discussed here.
43. Meningeal worm is another parasite that may affect sheep and goats.
44. Hoofcare is discussed on this page.
45. Coyotes are increasingly found as predators of sheep flocks. Here is some information about coyotes.
46. Here is a list of references about guard animals.
48. Dairy sheep and sheep milk products are becoming more popular in North America. This link will take you to the dairy sheep association. Be sure to check out the virtual tour of a sheep dairy in New York.
Small Ruminant Nutrition Information
17. There is a powerpoint presentation about life cycle feeding of small ruminants 
on the reference files folder.
on the reference files folder.18. This link will take you to an assortment of nutritional deficiency slides.
19. This link will discuss factors involved with a herd problem of milk fever in sheep.
20. Here is some more information about copper toxicosis in sheep.
22. For what commercial purposes are goats used by Nexia Biotechnologies?
25. What is the cause of floppy kid syndrome? Here are two references on this subject. The first is from goat world, the second is from Colorado extension service. They have an excellent reference website for goat diseases.
26. Visit sheepandgoat.com again. Under disease, check out club lamb fungus. What is this disease, how prevalent is it now, and is it zoonotic?
27. What constitutes the bluetongue triangle?
28. Here is a useful reference on ovine progressive pneumonia.
29. Which countries are apparently free of ovine progressive pneumonia?
30. Is the CAE ELISA test more sensitive than the AGID test?
31. When buying and bringing in new goats to a farm, what is the recommendation with respect to minimizing parasite resistance?
32. Here is a link to the FAMACHA anemia chart. There are other websites.
33. Take the caseous lymphadenitis quiz here.
34. Another review of CLA with a discussion of testing can be found here.
35. For a review and discussion of the differential diagnosis of paratuberculosis in goats check out this website.
goats check out this website.37. Here is the link to information about Jacob Sheep and Tay Sachs disease.
38. Here is a link to the AASRP. Here is a link to the FAO textbook on meat inspection which has an excellent summary of infectious diseases in animals, including sheep and goats.
including sheep and goats. 49. Here is a link to the Southern Consortium for Small Ruminant Parasite Control.
You can find information about FAMACHA and alternative methods for controlling intestinal parasitism.
50. Here is a link to the scrapie eradication website. There are some videos there showing clinical signs of scrapie in sheep.
51. Here is a link to the producers guide to scrapie.
21. Here is a link to a useful reference about feeding sheep flocks, with emphasis on the Southdown.
52. Here is a link to a powerpoint summary of small ruminant diseases and procedures.
53. Here is a link to a reference page on sheep diseases from Minnesota.
23. Here you can see a ewe give birth to a lamb.
2. Here is a link to information about the General Adaptaion Syndrome.
3. Here is another link with a bit more history and discussion and diagrams.
4. And here is a link to an interactive diagram about the syndrome.
53. Here are some links to sheep and goat dairies.
