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Flashcards by Bronagh Cobain, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Bronagh Cobain
about 8 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Texel (Terminal Sire) | |
| Suffolk (Terminal Sire) | |
| Definition 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. |
| Definition 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. |
| What type of sheep is a texel? | Terminal sire. |
| What type of sheep is a Suffolk? | Terminal sire. |
| What type of sheep is a Cheviot? | Crossing sire. |
| What type of sheep is a Beltex? | Terminal Sire. |
| What type of sheep is a Dorset? | Terminal Sire. |
| What type of sheep is a Bluefaced Leicester? | Crossing sire. |
| What type of sheep is a border Leicester? | Crossing Sire. |
| A Scottish Blackfaced sheep mixed with a crossing Sire produces what? | A Mule. |
| A Mule mixed with a terminal sire produces what? | A prime lamb. (Slaughter lamb) |
| Beltex. (Terminal Sire) | |
| Border Leicester (Crossing Sire) | |
| Bluefaced Leicester. (Crossing Sire) | |
| Dorset (Terminal Sire) | |
| Cheviot (Crossing Sire) | |
| What are these sheep? | A Scottish Blackface and two mules. |
| What are these sheep? | A mule and two prime lambs. |
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