Basics Terms
Animals used for a purpose such as meat, fiber, work, etc.
What are Livestock?
A system of sorting and naming plants and animals
What is Taxonomy?
Mature Female Sheep
What is a Ewe?
Where Feed Consumed goes in the ratio
What is the top/numerator?
Young meat bird, 10 to 15 weeks old, 8 pounds and up
What is a Roaster?
The largest order in the taxonomic hierarchy
What is Kingdom?
Young Male Horse
What is a Colt?
Where weight gained goes in the ratio
What is the bottom/denominator?
An animal's father
What is a Sire?
One of the languages typically used for scientific names
What is Greek or Latin?
Young Male Cattle
What is a Bull Calf?
What the feed conversion ratio shows you
What is how efficiently weight is gained?
Animals kept for reproductive purposes
What are Breeding Livestock?
Name one of the 3 advantages to the binomial naming system (scientific names).
What is Efficient/Easier/Faster or Specific or Universal?
Castrated male Chicken
What is a Capon?
The weight of the feeder from last week minus the weight of the feeder this week
What is Feed Consumed?
This term refers to animals with a backbone
What is a Chordata?
The scientist credited with creating the binomial system
Who is Charles Linnaeus?
A group of Goats
What is a Trip?
Solve this Feed Conversion Equation:
Last week your feeder weighed 8 lbs and now weighs 3 lbs. This week your chicken weighs 12 ounces and last week only weighed 6 ounces.
What is 8.33?