Sheep Breeds Breed Place of Origin Color Known for…

Sheep
Gestation Length: 147 days
Estrous Cycle Length: 16 days
Dressing Percentage: 55%
Nebraska ranks 24th for total number of sheep and lambs
Sheep Breeds
Breed
Place of
Origin
Color
Known for…
Corriedale
New Zealand
and Australia
Southwest
England
White; Polled
Good carcass quality; bulky,
high-yielding wool
Desirable carcass; fleece is very
white, strong, and close; #1 white
breed in the US
Ability to produce “litters” of
lambs
Dorset
Finnsheep
Hampshire
Merino
Montadale
Oxford
Rambouillet
White; Polled or Horned
Finlandimported to US
in 1966
Southern
England
Spain
White in America; Polled
United States
1932
England
White; Polled
Southdown
Rambouillet,
France
England
Suffolk
England
Black face with white
wool cap
White
Black face with wool cap
and wool on legs
White; Horned
Gray to mouse-brown
face and legs; Polled
Black face
Rapid growth and efficient feed
conversion
Extremely high quality wool:
standard to which all others are
compared
Developed from Columbia ewes
and Cheviot rams
Large size; cross of Cotswolds
and Hampshires
High wool quality; originated
from Merinos
Early Maturity; producing meaty
light-weight lambs
Developed by crossing
Southdown rams and Norfolk
Horned ewes
The Ruminant Digestive System
Order
1
Name
Rumen
2
Reticulum
3
4
Omasum
Abomasum
Appearance
Largest compartment (cattle ~50 gallon
cap.); covered with small papillae
Honeycomb
Pages of book
“True stomach”; similar to stomach of
monogastric animals
Function
Storage; physical mixing
Forces cud back into the
mouth
Absorption of water
Acidic digestion (true
stomach)
Equipment
Ram Marking Harness
Lambing OB Snare
Ewe Prolapse Retainer
Elastrator
Elastrator Bands
Hoof Trimmers
Electroejaculator
Lamb Tuber