Sheep, calves, and goats I

Question 1

4 sheep meat breeds

Answer 1

Dorset
Columbia
Suffolk
Hampshire

Question 2

5 wool sheep breeds

Answer 2

Merino
Rambouillet
Lincoln
Romney
Barbados (hair breed

Question 3

2 sheep dual purpose breeds

Answer 3

Corriedale

Southdown

Question 4

6 dairy goat breeds

Answer 4

Alpine
Nubian
Toggenburg
La Mancha
Saanen
Oberhaslie

Question 5

2 fiber goat breeds

Answer 5

Angora

Cashmere

Question 6

5 meat goat breeds

Answer 6

Boer
Sapel
Ma Tou
Kambling
Pygmy

Question 7

6 breeds of dairy cattle

Answer 7

Holstein-Fresian
Brown-Swiss
Jersey
Ayrshire
Guernsey
Milking Shorthorn

Question 8

2 breeds of meat cattle

Answer 8

Angus

Simmental

Question 9

Corriedales are models of what?

Answer 9

conjugated hyperbilirubinemia/hepatic organic anion excretory defect (Dubin-Johnson syndrome)

Question 10

Southdowns are models of what?

Answer 10

unconjugated hyperbilirubinemia/hepatic organic anion uptake defect (Gilbert syndrome)

Question 11

Dorsets are models of what?

Answer 11

glucose-6-phosphatase dehydrogenase deficiency

Question 12

Suffolks are models of what?

Answer 12

GM1 gangliosidosis

Question 13

Many breeds of sheep are models of what?

Answer 13

pulmonary adenocarcinoma (jaagsiekte)

Question 14

Caprine myotonia congenita (fainting goat) is a model for what disease?

Answer 14

human myotonia congenita (Thomsen’s disease)

Question 15

Nubians are models for what?

Answer 15

b-mannosidosis and prenatal therapeutic cell transplantation

Question 16

Tritrichomonas fetus in cattle is a model for what human disease?

Answer 16

Trichomonas vaginalis

Question 17

Inherited cardiomyopathy is common in which cattle breeds?

Answer 17

Holstein-Fresian, Simmental-Red Holstein, Black Spotted Fresian, and Polled Hereford

Question 18

Ayrshires and Fresians naturally are models of what?

Answer 18

Lipofuscinosis

Question 19

Shorthorns and Brahmans are natural models of what?

Answer 19

Glycogenesis

Question 20

Holsteins are natural models of what?

Answer 20

Leukocyte adhesion deficiency, hereditary zinc deficiency

Question 21

polled Hereford and polled Shorthorn calves are natural models of what?

Answer 21

Maple Syrup Urine dz

Question 22

Neonatal Friesan calves are natural models of what?

Answer 22

Citrullinemia

Question 23

Do sheep prefer straw bedding to slats?

Answer 23

Yes

Question 24

Cattle prefer grass to straw, T or F?

Answer 24

T

Question 25

Main source of energy for ruminants

Answer 25

VFA

Question 26

Neonates absorb immunoglobulin in the intestine via pinocytosis within how many hours after birth?

Answer 26

36 hours

Question 27

Why can't BUN be used as a measure of renal function in ruminants?

Answer 27

Rumen microflora break down urea nitrogen

Question 28

Where does lipogenesis in sheep occur?

Answer 28

Adipose and mammary gland tissues

Question 29

3 major ovine histocompatibility classes

Answer 29

OVAR class I, II, III

Question 30

Which goat breeds have fragile RBCs?

Answer 30

Pygmys and Toggenburgs

Question 31

Do goats like sweet feeds?

Answer 31

No, they don't like finely ground food

Question 32

sheep, cattle, goats - which are grazers and which are browsers?

Answer 32

Goats are browsers. The others are grazers

Question 33

Gestation length of sheep

Answer 33

147-150

Question 34

When to preg check by u/s for sheep

Answer 34

after day 60

Question 35

Gestation of goats

Answer 35

145-155

Question 36

How do you know when goats are about to give birth?

Answer 36

Does tend to have elevated rectal temp (above 103) for a week prior to parturition

Question 37

When can you induce goats with PGF2a?

Answer 37

Day 144

Question 38

Gestation length of cattle

Answer 38

270-292days

Question 39

u/s in cattle can detect pregnancy when?

Answer 39

9 days

Question 40

Palpation preg check in cattle

Answer 40

28-35 days: amniotic vesicle 30-35 days: fetal membrane slip 65 days: fetus 100-110 days: placentomes

Question 41

Placentation of ruminants

Answer 41

Epitheliochorial

Question 42

Which animals' caruncles are concave vs convex

Answer 42

Sheep and goat caruncles are concave | Cow caruncles are convex