Pig Breeds
Swine Vocab
Diseases
Swine Housing
Swine Names
100
pink/white with droopy ears
What is Landrace
100
Ability to have several piglets in a litter
What is prolificacy
100
most common external parasite in swine
What is lice
100
area where mothers are artificially inseminated and kept until birth of a litter
What is the gestation house
100
female with piglets
What is a sow
200
Black with a white belt around the middle
What is Hampshire
200
removal of the tail
What is docking
200
Symptoms include cough and lung abrasions
What is Pneumonia lesions
200
area where mothers give birth to piglets
What is the farrowing house
200
a castrated male
What is a barrow
300
red/rust colored with droopy ears
What is Duroc
300
removing an animal from the heard due to sickness or poor quality
What is culling
300
Symptoms include swelling of the joints, stiffness, and painful movement in young swine.
What is Swine erysipelas
300
name 1 of the 3 types of finishing operations
What are housed indoors, curtain-sided walls, or outside lots
300
an intact mature male
What is a boar
400
black with 6 white spots and droopy ears
What is Poland China
400
the main way to identify individual pigs
What is ear notching
400
Hogs are carriers for this viral disease that can cause fever, depression, and nesting. Newborns can die within 24 hours of birth.
What is Pseudorabies
400
system of taking pigs and moving them from place to place together since farrowing.
What is "all-in all-out"
400
a young pig
What is a piglet
500
Pink/white skin with erect ears
What is Yorkshire
500
the act of removing a piglet from their mother after a few weeks and feeding solid food
What is weaning
500
a highly contagious blood infection. The pig should immediately be euthanized if found to have this.
What is hog cholera
500
area where piglets are kept for up to 8 weeks of age
What is the nursery
500
a female without a litter of piglets
What is a gilt
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