FEEDING SHEEP & GOATS

Answer questions about feeding sheep and goats. Enhance your knowledge or study for a livestock skillathon. The quiz will randomly choose 10 questions from the question bank. 10 points each. At the end, you can see which questions you got right, as well as your overall score and the correct answers.

There are separate quizzes for nutrition and feedstuff identification.
Which animal has the highest requirement for water (needs to drink the most water)?
Which feedstuff supplies the most energy to sheep and goats? In other words, which feed has highest the highest percentage of TDN (total digestible nutrients)?
Which feed has the least amount of dry matter (dry feed for the animals to eat)?
What is the best hay?
Which is not a suitable ingredient to include in a creep feed for young lambs/kids <6 weeks old?
What is the recommended ratio of calcium to phosphorus to have in the diet for lamb and kid feed, especially for male animals.
What is the recommended amount of legume to have in pastures for grazing lambs/kids?
Which animals have the highest percentage requirements for nutrients: energy + protein?
What is the purpose of flushing: providing additional feed to ewes/does before breeding and during the early part of the breeding season?
Which of the following does not increase the nutrient requirements of sheep/goats?