Poultry
A male chicken less than a year old
What is a capon?
A mature female goat
What is a doe?
This cattle operation is the "backbone" of the cattle industry and accounts for 60% of the industry
What is cow-calf?
These are made of DNA and are found on the chromosomes
What are genes?
These are caused by pathogens like bacteria, viruses, fungi, or parasites that can spread from one animal to another
What is an infectious disease?
How long it takes a hen to start restart the egg-making process
What is 30 minutes?
The oldest goat breed in the U.S.
What is the Navajo Churro?
This is the process that breaks down fat globules within milk
What is homogenization?
This is the combination of alleles an animal an animal possess for a specific trait
This disease has caused 30 million+ layers to perish this year alone so far
What is the avian influenza?
The part of the chicken where the yolk is developed
What is the ovary?
The most important factor when grading wool
What is fineness?
This is where cattle were first domesticated
What is the fertile cresent?
This tool can be used to determine the possibility of a genotype being passed down to the offspring
What is a punnett square?
This is the process of implementing steps and measures to prevent the start and spread of livestock diseases
What is biosecurity?
The most common laying breed in the U.S.
What is the white leghorn?
This breed of goat produces a fiber that is 3x warmer than sheep wool
What is the cashmere goat?
This is the state that produces the most dairy cattle
What is california?
These are pairs of genes
What are alleles?
This disease gets its name from causing sheep and goats to experience an intense itching sensation
The process that determines the quality of an egg
What is candling?
This is the digestive system that allows sheep and goats to digest grass
What is the ruminant digestive system?
This is the process that rapidly heats up and cools down milk to kill potentially bad bacteria
What is pasteurization?
This is the homozygous recessive genotype for a brown steer (B = black, b = brown)
What is bb?
This is the zoonotic disease that causes cattle to have enlarged lymph nodes
What is bovine tuberculosis?