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JANUARY  2008  HOMEWORK  1

1.    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?

2.    What is the Navajo Churro sheep breed and who introduced this breed to the                        Americas?

3.    When were goats domesticated, according to the Oklahoma State University website?

4.    Check out the miniature sheep breeds at Smokey Valley Farm.

        Also, check out Babydoll Southdown Sheep here.

5.    Where did Boer goats originate?

6.   Which Kenyan sheep breed is important because of genetic resistance to parasitism?

7.   Which breed of sheep did the USDA test along with the St. Croix breed to evaluate          genetic resistance to parasitism?  What was determined to be the mechanism                    involved in the resistance?

8.   What is spider-leg syndrome?  Here is an article on the subject.

9.   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?

10.    Review genetic disorders in Nubian goats.  Also, check out this website for                        information on the intersex condition.

11.    Go to this website.  What is this breed used for and where did it originate?

        What are some of the uses for this breed?

12.    For what commercial purposes are goats used by Nexia Biotechnologies?

13.   Here is a link to another double-muscled breed of cattle from Italy, one that is               being selected for the myostatin gene.

14.   Here is a link to one of the few Buffalo creameries in the United States.

15.  You may have heard about Kobe beef from Japan.  Here is a link to information                about this method of producing beef.  These cattle are also being raised in the USA.

16.  Here is a link to information about the Senepol cattle from St. Croix.  You can visit             the Castle Nugent on your next trip to the island.

17.  Here is the link to the King Ranch.  They were responsible for finding the cause of               Texas tick fever and the development of the Santa Gertrudis and Santa Cruz cattle              breeds and the American Quarter horse.

18.  Here are two links about nutrition in sheep and goats from the                                     sheepandgoat.com website.

19.  Here are some things you should know about sheep, including how to tip                           one over.  Go to page 19 in the document.

20.   There is a powerpoint presentation about life cycle feeding of small ruminants                  on the students apps folder.

21.   This link will take you to an assortment of nutritional deficiency slides.

22.   This link will discuss factors involved with a herd problem of milk fever in sheep.

23.   Here is some more information about copper toxicosis in sheep.

24.  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 sheepandgoat.com.

25.   Here you can see a ewe give birth to a lamb.

26.   Here is a link to information about disbudding kids.  Another link is found here.

10.  What is the difference between "ring womb" and "ringworm" in sheep?

27.  Visit sheepandgoat.com again.  Under disease, check out club lamb fungus.                  What is this disease, how prevalent is it now, and is it zoonotic?

28.   What constitutes the bluetongue triangle?