Cattle Terms
The term for a female bovine animal who has already given birth to a calf.
What is a cow?
Term for a female hog that has not had a litter of pigs?
What is a gilt?
The term "bovine" relates to.
An intact (uncastrated) male hog.
What is a boar?
A castrated male cattle that is used for meat production.
What is a steer?
The act of giving birth in pigs.
What is farrowing?
The technology for artificially inseminating animals?
What is AI?
Progeny
What is the offspring of an animal?
Define "heifer."
What is a female bovine animal who has not yet given birth to a calf?
Define "sow"
What is a female hog that has had a litter of piglets?
Butcher Weight/Age.
What is the weight/age that animals are sent to be butchered?
What is Dam and Sire?
The term for a group of cattle that are kept together.
What is a herd?
The average litter size of pigs.
What is 7.5 piglets?
The number of litters a sow has carried referred to as.
What is parity?
The gestation period of a cow.
What is around nine months (279 to 292 days)?
A castrated male hog
What is a barrow?
Explain the difference between a bull and steer.
What is a bull is an uncastrated male bovine capable of reproduction, while a steer is a castrated male that cannot reproduce?