Swine
Beef
Behavior & Handling
Animal Terminology
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100
This is the length of the gestational period for swine.
What is 114 days or 3 months, 3 weeks, and 3 days?
100
This is castrated male cattle.
What is a steer?
100
This is the study of how animals react to a certain stimulus, either internal or external.
What is (animal) behavior?
100
This is the name for a mature male cattle.
What is a bull?
100
This is what it means to remove an animal from the herd.
What is culling (to cull)?
200
Cleaning, disinfecting, and sanitizing each facility between each group of pigs is crucial for the health and safety of all swine. Showering in and out of facilities is another form of practicing it. What is this practice called?
What is biosecurity?
200
This grazing system allows for cattle to be moved from pasture to pasture, improving forage utilization, extends the grazing season, and allows for pastures to rest.
What is rotational grazing?
200
Animals cannot see you if you are standing in this location.
What is a blind spot?
200
This is the name of a castrated male pig.
What is a barrow?
200
Cattle have this type of digestive system.
What is a ruminant digestive system?
300
This is the method of identification in swine, which uses a universal system of numbers to know the litter number and the pig number.
What is ear notching?
300
This operation focuses on having a calf each year, utilizing the practice of retaining and culling for maintaining a cow herd.
What is a cow-calf operation?
300
Animals will move away if you enter this region, and typically stop moving if you exit this region.
What is a flight zone?
300
This is an mature female horse.
What is a mare?
300
When animals are bred and their traits out perform their parents, it is known as...
What is hybrid vigor?
400
In this facility, pigs stay the longest amount of time (6-17 weeks) and are fed high energy diets consisting of corn, soybean meal, vitamins, and minerals to get ready to be harvested. T
What is a finishing barn?
400
What is a shorthorn?
400
This imaginary line off the shoulder of an animal can be used to move animals in a specific direction based off of where you position yourself.
What is the point of balance?
400
This is the name of an mature male sheep.
What is a ram?
400
What is 87-12?
500
This pig has white legs, white snout, and originated in England.
What is a Berkshire?
500
This stomach compartment resembles a stuffed book, and is responsible for water absorption of digested feedstuffs.
What is the omasum?
500
This is a naturally occurring behavior that does not have to be taught, is instinctual.
What is an innate behavior?
500
This is a castrated male chicken.
What is a capon?
500
What region is Iowa in that makes it an ideal location for feeding swine and cattle effectively? Hint... its not the 'Midwest'.
What is the Corn Belt?