What's It Called?: Beef/Swine
Beef:
Castrated male
What is a Steer?
Term for a female sheep
What is Ewe?
Female chicken over 1 year of age
What is Hen?
The incubation period of a chicken egg.
What is 21 days?
In beef industry terms, this is a "cow".
What is a female that has given birth?
Swine:
Mature female pig that has given birth
What is a Sow?
Female Goat
What is Doe?
Male rabbit
What is a Buck?
Gestation period for swine
What is 3 months, 3 weeks, 3 days (115 days)?
The term for the act of swine giving birth
What is Farrowing?
Beef:
Young female that has not given birth
What is a heifer?
Term for a castrated male sheep or goat.
What is Wether?
Female chicken under 1 year of age
What is a Pullet?
Gestation period for rabbits
What is 28-31 days?
This species were the first animals to be domesticated in the world
What is Sheep?
Swine:
Young female that has not given birth
What is a gilt?
Term for goat meat.
What is Chevon? (also, Cabrito or Caprito)
A baby rabbit
What is a Kit?
Gestation period for goats
What is 150 days (5 months)?
Term for the act of Rabbits giving birth
What is Kindling?
Swine:
Castrated male
What is a Barrow?
Term for meat from a sheep that is over 2 years old
What is Mutton?
Castrated male chicken
What is a Capon?
Gestation period for beef
What is 285 days (9 months, 7 days)?
The number of eyelids a chicken has
What is 3? (Upper, Lower, and Nictating Membrane)