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Breeding
records
allow a farmer to keep track of the dams, or mothers, and sires,
or fathers, of an animal.
By keeping
this information, a farmer can decide which animals will be
good to keep as mothers and fathers.
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A breeding
record for a ewe may look like this:
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Number
of animal
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Date
born |
Number
of dam |
Number
of sire |
Number
of lambs produced |
Number
of lambs kept to become a mother |
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5
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3/12/97
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25
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40
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4
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3
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| This is a
good record because the ewe produced a lamb every year of her
life and only one lamb was not kept to become a mother. |
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