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| Question | Answer |
| Steaming Up | Gradually increasing an animals plane of nutrition towards the end of gestation. |
| Flushing | The process by which ewes are moved from a low plane of nutrition to a high plane of nutrition prior to mating |
| Fostering | Taking one lamb from a set of triplets and putting it on a ewe with a single lamb. |
| Length of oestrous cyce | 17 days |
| Duration of oestrous | 36 hours |
| Gestation period | 149 days |
| Pheromones | Chemical substances that the ram produces in order to attract a female for mating |
| Ram effect | Suddenly introducing a ram to produce pheromones to encourage ovulation six weeks before normal |
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