Farm Animals
A castrated male horse is called this.
What is a gelding?
This is the common name for the femur bone.
What is the thigh bone?
This is the universal tool a vet uses to listen to an animal's heart and lungs.
What is a stethoscope?
These tiny, jumping insects are the number one cause of skin allergies in dogs and cats.
What are fleas?
This incredibly popular, all-black beef cattle breed is famous in the U.S. for producing high-quality, well-marbled meat.
What is an Angus? ("Black Angus")
This is the specific term for a female pig that has already given birth to a litter of piglets.
What is a sow?
This is the largest organ of any mammal's body, acting as the first line of defense against dirt and germs.
What is the skin? ("integumentary system")
Vets use this plastic, cone-shaped collar to keep dogs from biting at their stitches after surgery.
What is an E-collar? ("Elizabethan collar" or "the cone of shame")
This parasite looks like a tiny piece of moving white rice near an animal's tail and is usually caught by swallowing a flea.
What is a tapeworm?
This smaller, light-brown dairy cow breed is famous for producing milk with a very high butterfat content, making it great for ice cream.
What is a Jersey cow?
This common farm management practice involves removing a sheep's wool to keep them cool and prevent fly strike.
What is shearing?
Mammals have this many chambers in their heart.
What is four?
Tool: This is the specific name for the small, handheld light tool a vet uses to look deep inside an animal's ears.
What is an otoscope?
This is the standard medication given to animals monthly to prevent or kill internal worms.
What is a dewormer? ("anthelmintic")
This dual-purpose chicken breed is incredibly popular on small farms because of its distinctive black-and-white striped feathers and excellent egg-laying ability.
What is a Plymouth Rock? (Accept "Barred Rock")
While a group of cattle is a herd, a group of sheep is called this.
What is a flock?
This is the long, muscular tube that uses wave-like contractions to move food from the mouth down into the stomach.
What is the esophagus?
This is the most common route for giving routine vaccines to a dog or cat, meaning "under the skin."
What is subcutaneous? ("SQ" or "Sub-Q")
These blood-sucking arachnids are famous for transmitting Lyme disease to both animals and humans.
What are ticks?
To prevent injuries on long trail treks, a pack goat's loaded saddle should never exceed this percentage of its total body weight.
What is 25%? (20% to 30%)
This is the standard, healthy body temperature for a normal adult beef or dairy cow.
What is 101.5°F
This is the specific type of muscle tissue found only in the heart, which never gets tired of pumping.
What is cardiac muscle?
This machine uses sound waves to create real-time images of an animal's internal organs, often used to check for pregnancies.
What is an ultrasound?
This internal parasite gets its name because its adults literally live inside the right side of a dog's heart.
What is heartworm?
This massive, muscular draft horse breed from Scotland is famous for its white, feathery hair around its hooves and its frequent appearance in holiday wagon commercials.
What is a Clydesdale?