Glossary of sheep husbandry

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The raising of domestic sheep has existed in nearly every inhabited part of the globe, and the variations in cultures and languages which have kept sheep has produced a vast lexicon of unique terminology used to describe sheep husbandry. A few of the more major terms include:
Backliner an externally applied medicine, applied along the backline of a freshly-shorn sheep to control lice or other parasites. In the British Isles called "pour-on".
Bale a wool pack containing a specified weight of wool as regulated by industry authorities.
Bellwether originally an experienced wether given a bell to lead a flock; now mainly used figuratively for a person acting as a lead and guide.
Black wool Any wool that is not white, but not necessarily black.
Bottle lamb or cade lamb an orphan lamb reared on a bottle. Also "poddy lamb" or "pet lamb".
Boxed when different mobs of sheep are mixed.
Break a marked thinning of the fleece, producing distinct weakness in one part of the staple.
Broad wool which is on the strong side for its quality number, or for its type.
Butt an underweight bale of greasy wool in a standard wool pack.
Cast unable to regain footing, possibly due to lying in a hollow with legs facing uphill and/or having a heavy fleece. See also "riggwelter".
CFA or cast for age sheep culled because of their age. Also see "cull ewe".
Clip all the wool from a flock (in Australian Wool Classing).
Clipping cutting off the wool: see shearing.
Comeback the progeny of a mating of a Merino with a British longwool sheep.
Crimp the natural wave formation seen in wool. Usually the closer the crimps, the finer the wool.
Cull ewe a ewe no longer suitable for breeding, and sold for meat.

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Crutching shearing parts of a sheep (especially the hind end of some woollier breeds such as Merino), to prevent fly-strike. Also see "dagging".
Cut-out the completion of shearing a flock.
Dags clumps of dried dung stuck to the wool of a sheep, which may lead to fly-strike. (Hence "rattle your dags!", meaning "hurry up!", especially used in New Zealand.)
Dagging clipping off dags. Also see "crutching".
Devil's Grip a serious conformation defect, appearing as a depression behind the withers.
Dewlap the upper fold under the neck of a Merino sheep.
Dipping immersing sheep in a plunge or shower dip to kill external parasites. Backliners are now replacing dipping.
Downs breeds of sheep belonging to the short wool group.
Draft ewe a ewe too old for rough grazing (such as moorland), "drafted" (selected) out of the flock to move to better grazing, usually on another farm. Generally spelt "draft", but in British Isles either as "draft" or "draught".

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Drench an oral veterinary medicine administered by a drenching gun (usually an anthelmintic).
Driving or droving walking animals from one place to another.
Earmark a distinctive mark clipped out of the ear (or sometimes a tattoo inside the ear) to denote ownership and/or age.
Ear tag plastic or metal tag clipped to ear, with identification number or name.
Ewe (pronounced /ju?/) a female sheep capable of producing lambs. In areas where "gimmer" or similar terms are used for young females, may refer to a female only after her first lamb. In some areas "yow".
Fleece the wool covering of a sheep.
Flock a group of sheep (or goats). All the sheep on a property (in Australian Wool Classing); also all the sheep in a region or country. Sometimes called herd or mob.
Flushing providing especially nutritious feed in the few weeks before mating to improve fertility, or in the period before birth to increase lamb birth-weight.
Flushing (eggs/embryo) removing unfertilised or fertilised egg from an animal; often as part of an embryo transfer procedure.
Fold (or sheepfold) a pen in which a flock is kept overnight to keep the sheep safe from predators, or to allow the collection of dung for manure.
Folding confining sheep (or other livestock) onto a restricted area for feeding, such as a temporarily fenced part of a root crop field, especially when done repeatedly onto a sequence of areas.
Foot rot infectious pododermatitis, a painful hoof disease commonly found in sheep (also goats and cattle), especially when pastured on damp ground.
Gimmer (pronounced /?g?m?/, not /?d??m?/) a young female sheep, usually before her first lamb (especially used in the north of England and Scotland). Also "theave".
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