Animal Terminology
What is the term for chickens giving birth?
Laying
What is the solid black cattle breed called?
Angus
What is the name of the ID method that uses ink and a _________ gun?
Ear tattooing
What is the scientific name for cattle?
Bos taurus
What color(s) and markings are Hereford cattle?
Red bodied and white faced
What is a young male horse called?
Colt
What is the black with a white belted swine breed called?
Hampshire
What is the name of the ID method that used a hot iron or dry ice iron and only used in hair animals?
Branding
What is the scientific name for a horse?
Equus cabullus
What ID method(s) are used in sheep?
Ear tags and ear tattooing
What is a mature female sheep called?
Ewe
What is the dark brown/reddish chicken breed called?
Rhode Island Red
What is the name of the ID method that is used in only species of animals and documents their litter number and number within that litter?
Ear Notching
What is the scientific name for sheep?
What ID method(s) is used in pigs?
Ear notching, ear tags, and ear tattooing
What is the term for swine giving birth?
Farrowing
What is the tannish brown dairy cattle breed (2nd most common) called?
Jersey
What is the name of the ID method that you can read from both sides but easily falls out?
Ear Tagging
What is the scientific name for pigs?
Sus scrofia
What color and markings are the Duroc breed of swine?
Reddish brown with floppy ears
What is the term for a castrated male sheep?
Wether
What breed of goat is white bodied with a brown head?
Boar
What is does the right ear of the ear notching ID system document?
Litter Number
What is the scientific name made of? Think taxonomy pyramid?
Genus species
What is a mature male pig called?
Boar