This is a test bank for the Junior Sheep & Goat Skillathon at the Maryland Sheep & Wool Festival. Questions for the written test portion of the skillathon will be drawn from this test bank. The bank includes questions with varying degrees of difficulty.
Southdown
Leicester Longwool
Tunis
Navajo Churro
Rocky Mountain Big Horn
Merino
Mouflon
Woolly Mammoth
1
2
3
4
Gelding
Stag
Wether
Steer
3 months
5 months
7 months
9 months
2 lbs.
8 lbs.
12 lbs.
30 lbs.
Energy
Protein
Calcium
Selenium
Sodium and chloride
Selenium and vitamin E
Protein and energy
Calcium and phosphorus
Toggenburg
Alpine
Nubian
Nigerian Dwarf
Heredity
Sex
Diet
Length of tail dock
Scours (diarrhea)
Exercise
Angora
Cashmere
Kiko
Nigerian Dwarf
Oats
Alfalfa hay
Alfalfa pellets
Corn
Lacaune
Tunis
East Friesian
Awassi
Scrapie is always fatal.
Goats can't get scrapie.
An animal's genetics affect its susceptibility to scrapie.
Scrapie incidence has been higher in black face (Suffolk type) sheep.
Omasum
Abomasum
Rumen
Reticulum
Teladorsagia
Oesophagastomum
Pasterella hemolytica
Haemonchus contortus
Alpine
Nubian
Boer
Oberhasli
Corn
Alfalfa pellets
Beet pulp
Soybean meal
True
False
Polioencephalomalacia
White muscle disease
Rickets
Urinary calculi
True
False
8
16
24
32
98
98-100
100-102
102-104
Cheviot
Dorset
Rambouilllet
Polypay
Cervix
Vagina
Ovary
Uterine horns