Health
There are this many CCs in a mL:
1
114 days
This swine breed is known for marbling/high meat quality?
Berkshire
In the context of meat science, PSE stands for:
Pale Soft Exudative
This is the term used to describe an animal with one stomach compartment:
Monogastric
Iron injections are administered to piglets to prevent this disorder.
What is ANEMIA?
This is how often a cow comes into estrus (in days):
18-21 days
BQA stands for this in the livestock industry:
Beef Quality Assurance
Color: Red dark
Bone: No
Fat: some fat layered
Muscle: not too much
Lamb Stew Meat
This is the disease that is caused by an infection of the mammary gland:
Mastitis
This hormone is considered the "hormone of darkness" and helps seasonally polyestrous animals such as sheep respond to daylength in order to suppress or allow cyclicity:
Melatonin
This is the part of the female reproductive tract houses the embryo and fetus during gestation:
Uterus
This is the "Mother Breed" of swine
Yorkshire
A 250lb hog has a dressing percentage of 70%. The carcass will weigh:
175lbs
This is the word describing the act of giving birth:
Parturition
Lutalyse is a product marketed by Zoetis and used in many cattle AI protocols. Lutalyse contains this hormone:
Prostaglandin
The corpus luteum primarily secretes this hormone:
Progesterone
This goat breed was developed in South Africa:
Boer
These are characteristics used to establish quality grade in beef carcasses:
Marbling and Maturity
This is the whole grain with the highest protein content:
Shortly after calving, a cow becomes dull, listless, and unsteady on her feet. The cow goes down, exhibiting flaccid paralysis and is unable to move. She is most likely suffering from this disorder:
Milk fever/postparturient hypocalcemia
An individual that has two of the same allele for a single trait is described as:
Homozygous
This beef breed was developed in King Ranch, Texas
Santa Gertrudis
This causes "dark cutting beef"
Long-term stress before slaughter
You weigh a lamb and it's 50lbs. A week later, you weigh the same lamb and it's 58lbs. This is its average daily gain:
1.14lbs per day