Diseases
Also known as over eating disease
What is enterotoxemia?
A commercial heifer was weaned at 520lbs. A Purebred heifer is weaned at 500lbs. This increase in performance is described as
What is hybrid vigor?
For swine the most universal ID method is...
What is ear notching?
What is an indication statement?
Latin word meaning tail
Caudal
A disease that causes the degeneration of muscles in lambs
What is white muscle disease?
** MUST get both for points **
What is inbreeding and linebreeding?
The most common method of ID in chickens is...
What is toe punching?
The most important selection trait
What is structural correctness?
The true stomach
What is the abomasum?
A lamb is left struggling to urinate, this is likely a cause of
The name for when the movement of sperm is evaluated
What is motility?
What is NOT a common method of animal ID?
What is GPS Tracking?
The removal of wool around the dock and mammary glands
What is tagging?
This parasitic disease most commonly affects horses
What is habronemia?
This disease pathogens multiplies rapidly without a host
What is bacteria?
A breeding system maximizing hybrid vigor
What is rotational crossbreeding?
This system uses the animals birth year represented by a letter.
What is system 3?
The feed processing method that ensures the complete diet in each bite
What is pelleting?
What is the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service?
These parasites are also called blood worms
Strongyles
The hormone that is released into the bloodstream of females from a CIDR
What is progesterone?
Ear tags are most often placed in what part of the animal
What is the auricle
A lamb should consume how many pounds of water per day, assuming they consume 3lbs of feed per day.
What is 6-15lbs
The bypass between the esophogaus and the abomasum allowing young animals to consume and digest milk
What is the reticular groove