POPM 4230 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Dairy Cattle, Classless Inter-Domain Routing, Estrous Cycle
20 Jan 2017
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Farm flocks of 50 ewes to >1000 breeding ewes: average flock size in ont = 100 breeding ewes (with tremendous variability) Meat production ***: market lambs, most sheep in can raised for producing lamb (meat) huge market. Huge holiday market for ewe crop lambs (christmas, easter, muslim feast days: great prices year round driven by strong ethnic markets, biggest complaint is trying to get enough lambs. Mostly cheese and yogurt (not really milk) Primary use in developing countries use meat as secondary product. Fibre (wool) production : merino wool climate too harsh in can for this industry, value of our wool is pretty low, not all sheep have wool. Almost all sheep in ont have wool should be shorn once a year. Goats as pets: goats are personable, intelligent, friendly, curious. Dairy goats: dairy goat industry is the largest (very large herds, increasing in size, hugely expanding industry due to high demand (mostly for cheese)
