sheep ked

sheep ked

(kĕd)

n.

A wingless fly (Melophagus ovinus) that parasitizes sheep, causing skin irritations that cause damage to wool. Also called sheep tick.

sheep

member of the species Ovis aries. They are classified into several types including merino, shortwool meat breeds, longwool, carpetwool, fat-tail, wool-shedding, Karakul. All domesticated types are characterized by a wool fleece.

---

Bighorn sheep

see bighorn sheep.

carpetwool sheep

includes blackfaced mountain, carpetmaster, drysdale, elliottdale and tukidale.

Dall sheep

see dall sheep.

sheep dog

see shepherd dogs.

sheep dip

see dip.

dual-purpose sheep

breeds generated to provide meat and wool. Include charollaise, corriedale, cormo, dormer, gromark, perendale, polwarth, zenith.

easy-care sheep

see easy-care sheep.

fat-tailed sheep

see fat-tailed sheep.

sheep-goat hybrid

mating and fertilization can be achieved but the fetus dies early or is aborted.

heafed sheep

sheep such as Herdwicks and Swaledales in the UK that graze the same area of unfenced hill area without shepherding, year after year, and teach this behavior to their lambs. Also called hefted sheep.

sheep itch mite

see psorergatesovis.

sheep ked

see melophagusovinus.

sheep loco

astragalusnothoxys.

sheep measles

see ovine cysticercosis.

meat sheep

includes English Longwool breeds (see under wool sheep below) and shortwool or Downs sheep, e.g. southdown, suffolk, hampshire, oxford down, dorset horn, poll dorset, ryeland, shropshire and charollaise, cheviot, clun forest, colbred, columbia, coopworth, dormer, dorper, many indigenous fat-tailed and fat-rumped breeds, finnish-landrace, north ronaldsay, wensleydale.

sheep nasal bot

oestrusovis.

sheep pox

see sheeppox.

sheep-scab

see psoroptic mange.

sheep sorrel

rumexacetosella.

sheep tick

sheep ked. See melophagusovinus.

wool sheep

includes australian merino (including a wide range of strains and types especially booroola and comeback), cormo, corriedale, polwarth, sharlea, american rambouillet and English Longwools such as lincoln, leicester, border leicester, cheviot, coopworth, romney marsh.