This chicken breed is the number 1 broiler breed.
Cornish Cross
This is the name of the pond used to store hog excrement on hog farms.
Lagoon
This breed of cattle is very valuable because of it's superb meat marbling. It is usually black, but sometimes red.
Angus
Hot Blooded
This tree is very important to the economy of NC. It grows tall and straight and is great for lumber.
Loblolly Pine
This breed is the number 1 layer breed.
White Leghorn
This is the name of pig fat that is used for cooking
Lard
This is the number one dairy cow in the USA. It is black and white. It is also the mascot for Chic-fil-a.
Holstein
This is what we call a horse that is easy to train and docile. Most of the work breeds, including Clydesdales, fit in this group.
Cold Blooded
This is the part of the tree that carries sap from the roots, up to the leaves of a tree.
Sapwood
What breed of chickens do we have at WMS?
Orpingtons
This is the part of the pig that bacon comes from.
Belly
This is the primary type of cattle production in NC. It involves keeping a herd of cows and selling the calves.
Cow/Calf operation
This horse breed was developed as a cow horse to roundup cows that got out of the herd while cattle driving. It is the fastest horse for short distances.
Quarter Horse
This is the part of the tree that grows
Cambium Layer
This is the scientific name for chickens
Gallus Domesticus
This is the primary difference between Asian pigs and European pigs.
Asian pigs tend to be fatter
This cattle breed is a descendant of Spanish cattle that were left in Florida after a shipwreck. They lived wild in Florida before being captured and domesticated.
Cracker Cattle
This horse breed almost because extinct when the American government forced the Nez Perce native Americans to a reservation. The American government shot most of the horses. These horses are very colorful with lots of white markings and patterns.
Appaloosa
Heartwood
Squab is another name for this bird's meat.
Pigeon
This is the scientific name of domestic pigs.
Sus Domesticus
The scientific name of European cows.
Bos Taurus
This is a piece of metal or plastic, placed in the horses mouth to help control and steer them.
Bit
This organism grows on rocks and trees. It is made up of a combination of a fungus and algae, working together in a symbiotic relationship.
Lichen