Animal Welfare Basics
This describes the industrialized system of breeding, raising and harvesting animals to be used for human consumption and other animal products
What is Animal Agriculture?
combination of leanness and muscling in all species is referred to as
what is cutability?
refers to a variation of a gene
what is allele?
the first step in developing a breeding program
What is setting goals
CIDR stands for
What is Controlled Intravaginal Drug Release
the ability of an animal to cope with the conditions in which it lives.
what is animal welfare
This is not a quality grade of BEEF
what is USDA Good
this trait has the highest heritability, more than 50 percent
what is carcass?
type of breeding system is designed to take advantage of both hybrid vigor and breeding value?
what is crossbreeding?
Sarah is a swine producer and wants to incorporate a new breeding method into her operation. Which method is most commonly used in the swine industry
What is AI
the biological school of animal welfare
How healthy the animal is and how it grows and reproduces?
Evan is evaluating a class of sheep. Which three places are the best for him to evaluate when determining the muscling of each sheep?
Where are leg, rack and shoulder
traits are controlled by one gene pai
What is simply inherited traits
type of crossbreeding system must replacement females be purchased from or produced in a separate environment?
What is Static crossbreeding system
process of cloning when the donor cell is fused with the oocyte is called
What is electrofusion
This school of animal welfare describes the environmental conditions in which an animal is raised or reared
What is natural living
5 physical factors which can help or hurt livestock when on the market
what are cutability, dressing percentage, flesh, weight, and quality?
type of dominance would a roan steer which shows equal parts of the dominant and recessive gene traits of red and white coat color have?
What is incomplete dominance
two types of breeding systems are generally used by individuals in the purebred industry
what is Inbreeding and linebreeding
the significance of corpora lutea (CL)
What is CLs indicate the female has ovulated
John is a livestock inspector for the state of Oklahoma and his job is to inspect animal production operations to ensure all regulations are being followed. On Monday, John visited a goat operation facility and saw many of the animals were ill. What freedom does this violate?
What is freedom from pain, injury and disease
the average fat thickness a market ready swine
what is .65 inches
the process of cellular reproduction of gametes
Selection of which parent is more important when a producer is developing a breeding program
what is sire selection
process of developing primordial germ cells into viable sperm cells.
What is spermatogenesis