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Farm (Sheep)

Bronagh Cobain English 20 cards

Cards in this deck (20)

1—Texel (Terminal Sire)
2—Suffolk (Terminal Sire)
3Definition of a "Terminal Sire"?A sheep bred with a mule to produce a slaughter lamb. Hence the term "terminal".
Texel, Suffolk, Beltex and Dorset are all terminal sires.
4Definition of a "crossing sire"?A sheep used to produce a mule..
Cheviot, Bluefaced leicester and Border Leicester are all mixed with a Scottish Blackface to produce a mule.
5What type of sheep is a texel?Terminal sire.
6What type of sheep is a Suffolk?Terminal sire.
7What type of sheep is a Cheviot?Crossing sire.
8What type of sheep is a Beltex?Terminal Sire.
9What type of sheep is a Dorset?Terminal Sire.
10What type of sheep is a Bluefaced Leicester?Crossing sire.
11What type of sheep is a border Leicester?Crossing Sire.
12A Scottish Blackfaced sheep mixed with a crossing Sire produces what?A Mule.
13A Mule mixed with a terminal sire produces what?A prime lamb. (Slaughter lamb)
14—Beltex. (Terminal Sire)
15—Border Leicester (Crossing Sire)
16—Bluefaced Leicester. (Crossing Sire)
17—Dorset (Terminal Sire)
18—Cheviot (Crossing Sire)
19What are these sheep?A Scottish Blackface and two mules.
20What are these sheep?A mule and two prime lambs.