Why do some kids feed their sheep liquid ensure or enfamil? What is the purpose of these tactics?
To produce lean, long and well muslced sheep. These sheep normally are poor carcass animals, however they look great in the market lamb class. Question: Please let me know how big the loin eye in sheep should be. Also the back fat. Answer:From www.mylamb.com Typical loin eye size range from 2.0 to 2.8 square inches for a finished lamb. Competitive might be 3.0 or above for the larger sizes in a carcass competition. Some extreme lambs (like callipyge gene carriers might have 4.0 square inches plus). Backfat might range from 0.05 of an inch to 0.4 of an inch. That is five hundreths of an inch to four tenths of an inch. Typically you will want between a tenth of an inch and two tenths of an inch of back fat. The ribeye or loin eye is the measured from the thirteenth rib to the point of hip. There are two ribeye’s, one on each side of the spine. Ideal is a little less that 3 square inches. Many judges have different preferences here.
