Answers to Sheep Quiz

1.  Asia 10,000 to 20,000 years ago.

2.  Australia

3.  Spanish and English settlers

4.  Wool and lambs

5.  Fleece

6.  It's elastic, does not wrinkle easily, holds body heat, burns very slowly

7.  Rambouillet and Merino

8.  Winter and early spring

9.  June

10.  Lamb

11.  Mutton

12.  2 pounds

13.  Rack, loin, leg

14.  Shoulder, breast, flank

15.  Suffolk, Hampshire, Shropshire, Southdown, Dorset

16.  Having 4 compartments in their stomach

17.  7 pounds

18.  Market lamb

19.  forage

20.  concentrate

21.  100-120 pounds

22.  Columbia and Montadale

23.  Dorset and Rambouillet

24.  Southdown rams on Norfolk horned ewes

25.  Fine (3/8 blood)

26.  Southdown

27.  Shropshire

28.  France

29.  Merino

30.  E.H. Mattingly  Cheviot and Columbia

31.  Lincoln