Swine Breeds
Swine Introduction
Swine Misc.
swine misc pt 2
Swine Terms
100
What breed is solid black with a white "belt". Good lean meat breed?
What is Hampshire
100

What is the term for overseeing two or more steps of production, marketing, and processing are linked together. usually by contract between producers and feed manufacturers or between producers and processors or include all three.

What is Vertical Integration

100
Which swine breed was developed in England and has as a breed goal to be a source of durable mother lines that can contribute to longevity and carcass merit?
What is Yorkshire
100
According to the Universal Ear Notching System what ear is the pigs "litter number"?
What is Right Ear
100
What is a castrated male hog called?
What is Barrow
200
What breed is solid red and known for growth and meat quality?
What is Duroc
200

What is the gestation length for swine

What is 114 days or 3 months 3 weeks 3 days

200
Which swine breed is known for its mothering ability and prolificacy, and is typically gentle, unless startled?
What is Landrace
200
According to the Universal Ear Notching System what ear is the pigs "individual number"?
What is Left Ear
200
What is an uncastrated male hog called?
What is Boar
300
What Breed is Solid White w/ erect ears known as the "Mother Breed"?
What is Yorkshire
300
What state is credited for having the most pigs?
What is Iowa
300
Which swine breed was largely developed in Ohio and Indiana and has ears that are forward leaning or drooped?
What is Spot
300

when are hogs usally weaned

what is 21 days

300
Term used for "giving birth" in swine
What is Farrowing
400
What Breed is Black with 6 white points with drooped ears?
What is Poland China
400

What breed is credited for the infamous PSS gene

what is pietrain
400
Name the term used to describe where sows carry out their pregnancy?
What is gestation
400

What is one issues facing swine production?

answers could vary - environment, space issues, labor, animal rights movements, prices

400
Term used to describe an immature female pig
What is Gilt
500
What Breed is Solid White with "short" drooped ears known for mothering ability?
What is Chester White
500
Why are pigs used in different types of health research and to produce a variety of health-care-products and medicines?
What is Swine have similar physiological systems
500

What are the 3 important traits in evaluating Market Hogs?

What is Muscle, Growth, and Correctness of Finish

Structure, soundness

500

What is the four parts of the swine flow system

What is Breeding, farrowing, nursery, finish

500
Once a female swine farrows a litter of pigs she is then termed a what?
What is a Sow
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