Introduction
Poultry
Cattle
Products
Potpourri
100
This describes the study or theoretical explanation of a natural phenomena.
What is science?
100
A brooder provides this for young chicks
What is heat?
100
The beef industry has this many segments.
What is four?
100
This is the most important nutrient.
What is water?
100
This breed of dairy cattle make up the largest number in the U.S.
What is holstein?
200
This advancement allowed meat to be transported long distances and stored for longer periods.
What is refrigeration?
200
Broilers we raised in class are a hybrid of what two breeds?
What is cornish and (plymouth) rock.
200
Milk from a cow that has just given birth is called this.
What is colostrum?
200
Milk is heated in this process to kill any harmful bacteria.
What is pasteurization?
200
This term describes the animals whose ancestors are only of one breed.
What is purebred?
300
This scientist developed a means of vaccinating animals.
Who is Louis Pasteur?
300
The name of the hatchery we received our chicks from?
What is Townline hatchery?
300
The percent milkfat contained in whole milk.
What is 4%?
300
This is an inedible by-product of cattle.
What is leather, etc. ?
300
Insulin from this animal is greatly valued because it most closely resembles human insulin.
What is a pig?
400
With this advancement one sire (father) can produce many offspring.
What is artificial insemination.
400
This is the most common layer breed in the U.S.
What is a leghorn?
400
The phase of the beef cattle industry where calves are born, weaned and sold.
What is cow-calf operations?
400
The process in which large cream globules in milk are reduced in size.
What is homogenization?
400
This is the best example of an animal organ being used to replace a human organ.
What is heart valve from pig for human heart valve.
500
With this process one dam (mother) can produce many offspring.
What is embryo transfer?
500
The process of laying an egg is activated by a hormone called this. (Also important in milk production)
What is oxytocin?
500
Grape-like structures in the udder of the cow that secrete milk.
What is alveoli?
500
A chicken that lays brown eggs will have what color earlobes?
What is red? What will white earlobes lay?
500
The system we use to name animals according to scientific classification.
What is binomial nomenclature?
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