Importance of the Animal Industry
Early humans utilized these three products from the animal they hunted.
What is meat, milk and hides.
Animals are classified by these two things that make up the binomial nomenclature.
What is the genus and species?
These people take care of much of the day-to-day handling and work with animals, even though they are not doctors.
What is a Veterinary Technician?
This is the process of giving birth in cattle.
What is calving?
This is the are of the face between the eyes; wide on livestock because of the fact that they are prey animals.
What is the forehead?
Horses were domesticated from Asia around this time.
What is 6,500 years ago?
This type of cow is classified by its identifiable hump on its back.
What is Bos indices cattle?
This field of Animal Science deals with researching feed rations for livestock to improve performance and overall animal health.
What is Animal Nutrition?
What are horses?
This is the joint on the hind leg that corresponds to the knee of a human.
What is a stifle?
In 1815, competition from large herds of cattle in the Western frontier of the United States forced this state's farms out of the cattle business.
What is New England?
This term is used to describe a group of animals consisting of similar individuals capable of exchanging genes or interbreeding in a unique population.
What is species?
These professionals are highly skilled and have a solid understanding of artificial insemination, perform embryo transfer on cattle, and can preserve embryos for livestock production
What is an Embryo Transfer Technician?
This is the name given to a castrated male pig of any age.
What is a barrow?
This is the name for the area right behind the elbow where the barrel (or body) begins.
What is the heartgirth?
Cattle production can be found in all 50 states, although it is the most commonly ran in these five U.S. states.
What is Texas, Nebraska, Kansas, California and Oklahoma?
Most livestock are placed in a single class, that represents "milk giving."
What is mammalia?
These employees monitor the production process to ensure high quality meat, dairy, and poultry products are used.
What is a Quality Control Manager?
This is the name given to describe an immature male chicken.
What is a cockerel?
This is the lowest part of the pastern on a horse where it meets the hoof.
What is the coronet?
Animal by-products are very important and significant to meet all consumers commands. This percentage of the live weight of a hog and cow are utilized for by-products
What is 30% for swine and 50% for cattle?
Animals were domesticated for the first time in this part of the world and during this year.
What is the Middle East, 10,000 years ago?
This U.S. government agency is responsible for grading meat, ensuring quality and helping to determine the tenderness, juiciness, and flavor of meat.
What is the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)?
Sheep is raised for wool and meat production. For meat these are the two types of classes for meat, along with the difference between the two types of meat.
What is lamb and mutton? Lamb is meat from a sheep less than 1 year old and mutton is from a mature sheep older than 1 year of age.
This is the proximal term that means towards the tailhead.
What is caudal?