Sheep
Wether
What do you call a male goat?
buck
What is a heifer?
female cow less than 2 years old, have never given birth
What is a female pig less than a year old?
gilt
What is the name for a female horse less than 4 years old?
Filly
How do sheep respond do danger?
They travel in packs, stop when a predator is near, let them pick off the weakest in the back and keep fleeing, regrouping after the predator is gone
How do goats display fear?
-fainting,running away, horn threat, bleating
How to cattle show anger?
erratic movements, tail flicking, ground pawing, turning sideways, pinned-back ears, snorting.
What is the name of a swine used for meat production?
What is the name for a castrated male horse?
gelding
What is a sheep that is older than 1 year but younger than 2?
yearling
How do goats display pain?
- grinding teeth, rapid/shallow breathing, changing posture, appear agitated
How long does it take to train a young team of calves?
30-40hrs
What is the name for a female pig more than a year old?
sow
If a horse does not run away in flight, how do they fight?
- kicking, bucking, rear, bite, strike with front hooves
How do sheep display anger?
head butting, stomping, shaking head up and down, trying to bite
What is a female goat older than 1 year old?
Doe/nanny
What is the difference between training calves for show and one for work or competition?
Conditioning, working they have to physically prepared and for show it is ore about the look of that animal.
What is the pecking order?
- the ranking of pigs that exsist after 2 days of life; the piglets that are the closest to mom are known as the higher ranked, the ones most distal to mom is usually the runt
What are the 3 points of contact with horses?
- standing at the point of shoulder and use elbow to your advantage, trying to not spook the horse
How do sheep display submission
lowering head, backing away
How do goats show dominance?
lowering head, raising legs, butting heads
What are the words to make them stop, go forward, turn right and left?
- go: 'get up'
- stop: 'whoa'
- left: 'ha'
-right: 'gee'
What type of aggression can occur in pigs?
- fighting with one another, especially in production facilities where there is a high stocking density; they begin to fight with their tusks, injuring one another.
What does head high, head high and back hunched, head down and mouth movements mean?
- head high: aggresssive, challenging
- head high and back hunched: scared, ready to fight
- head down: submitting
- mouth movements: usually a baby communicating to a older horse that they are young