2. How many sheep/goat products
can you name
• Meat (chevon for goat)
• Milk
• Chammy (leather from
sheep/goats)
• Medicine (adrenaline)
• Clothing (wool,
cashmere, mohair)
• Lanolin (grease from
sheep wool, used in
hand lotion)
3. Sheep!!!!!
• Over 7.8 million sheep in the U.S.
• Provide average of 1.7 lbs. meat and 0.8
lbs. of wool per person
• Raised where other animals cannot be
(climate or food availability)
5. Goats!!!!
• Low importance economically
• Prefer to eat twigs and leaves
• Mohair is hair taken from angora goats
and is used to make a wooly fabric
8. Five Types of Production
1. Farm Flock
2. Purebred Flock
3. Range Band Method
4. Confinement
5. Lamb Feeding Production
9. Favorable Factors
• Easily raised
• Dual income
• Less susceptible to disease
• Return of investment fast
• Suited for young people
10. Unfavorable Factors
• Price for wool changes
• Consumption not as common
• Cotton and other materials taken place
of wool
• More susceptible to parasites
• Can be killed by predators easily
11. Exit Slip
• Name three of the five products that
sheep provide for people.
• Name one breed of sheep and one breed
of goats.
• Name two of the five types of production
using in sheep/goat operations.