Muscle Terms
Wider through the center portion of the ___
What is the ham?
A breed with erect ears, black hided with white point.
What is Berkshire?
A pig with a forward-bent, crooked knee.
What is buck kneed?
The cleft between the hams.
What is the seam of the ham?
The length of gestation in swine.
What is 114 days/ 3 months, 3 weeks, 3 days?
An area where definition of muscling can be seen at the forward portion of the hip.
What is the ham/loin junction?
What is Landrace?
A pig whose topline curves upward?
The large joint in the middle of the rear leg.
What is the hock?
what is six?
An advantage describing a leaner hog.
The belted breed.
What is Hampshire?
These may touch the ground when a weak-pasterned pig walks.
What are dewclaws?
The blade is the top portion of this body part, visible beneath the skin.
What is the blade?
What is backfat?
A hog that stands with more width is considered this.
What is wider based?
The solid red American pig.
What is Duroc?
Too much set to the hock is called this.
What is sickle hocked?
A pig should be wide here as an indicator of body width.
What is the skull?
This EPD is abbreviated NBA
What is Number Born Alive?
What is the jowl?
White-skinned breed popular in confinement with erect ears.
What is Yorkshire?
Term for a pig whose hocks are close together when viewed from the rear.
What is cow-hocked?
A long muscle spanning from shoulder to hip.
What is the loin?
SPI is the abbreviation of this EPD.
What is Sow Productivity Index?