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Meat products

Any kind of animal flesh that is eaten or sold as a marketable product.

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bale

Meat products; Lamb

A wool pack containing a specified weight of pressed wool as regulated by industry authorities.

bell sheep

Meat products; Lamb

A sheep (usually a rough, wrinkly one) caught by a shearer, just before the end of a shearing run.

backliner

Meat products; Lamb

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.

cull ewe

Meat products; Lamb

A ewe no longer suitable for breeding, and sold for meat.

random mating

Meat products; Lamb

A mating system where all ewes have the same chance of being mated to any ram used.

quantitative traits

Meat products; Lamb

Traits that do not show a sharp distinction between phenotypes. There is a gradual variation from one phenotype to another, for example, birth weight. Usually, environmental ...

qualitative traits

Meat products; Lamb

Traits which show a sharp distinction between phenotypes. For example, polled and horned. Usually only one or few gene pairs are involved.

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