General Questions
First limiting nutrient for all livestock.
What is water?
What ways do we identify cattle.
What is ear tags, tattoo, branding.
Universal method for swine identification.
What is Ear Notching?
Terminology used for the removal of the wool around the dock and mammary glands.
Proper terminology of sexual receptivity during which females will accept the male.
What is estrus?
Common terminology used in referring to the removal of the testicles from a male animal.
What is castration?
Gestation length for cattle.
What is 285?
Type of stomach.
What are Ruminant Animals.
Not one of the USDA quality grades for lambs in sheep production.
What is Utility?
Discoloration in hay is an indicator of.
What is mold?
Name for the period of pregnancy in animals, time from conception to birth.
What is gestation?
Not a reason for the main use of AI in Dairy Animals.
What is Easier?
How many days is the gestation period of swine?
What is 114.
Sheep breed that accounts for more than 50 percent of the worlds sheep population.
What is Fine Wool?
Terminology refers to the removal of the tail at or near the tail head.
What is docking?
Common terminology refers to the periord in which animals give birth to young.
What is parturition?
Signs of calving.
What are Restlessness, standing raised tail, arching of the back?
Types of common swine operations.
What are finishing, farrow to finish, seedstock?
What is Entertoxemia?
Process of taking a fertilized egg or embryo of a high quality female and placing it into the uterus of another female.
What is embryo transfer?
Year the first livestock animals brought to the United States.
1493
Normal resting period for DRY cow management.
What is 60 Days?
What is a Duroc?
Terminology used to refer to the feeding technique utilized by goat producers to reduce stress of weaning.
What is Creep?
Acronym used to refer to the number of breeding potential for characteristics such as gain, muscling, maternal, and carcass traits.
What is EPD?