Terminology
Mature Female that has calved.
What is a cow?
The study of nutrients involves determining what nutrients are required and what levels of nutrients are necessary for various levels of productivity.
What is nutrition?
A term that describes an individual who is lean/muscular and walks or moves correctly.
What is athletic?
The dressed body of a processed animal.
What is a carcass?
A disease that can be transferred from animals to humans.
What is a zoonotic disease?
Castrated male.
What is a steer?
A feed designed to provide nutrients deficient in the animal's main diet.
What is a supplement?
Referring to the attitude of the animal, an animal with an easy ___ will be easier to work with throughout the project.
What is disposition?
The skin of an animal, typically used in show terms to describe the skin on a live animal.
What is the hide?
The time you must wait to process your market project after administering a medication, vaccine, or de-wormer.
What is withdrawal or withholding date
An intact male.
What is a bull?
A feed designed to provide nutrients deficient in the animal's main diet.
What is a supplement?
A term used to describe a calf that has a good appetite, converts feed, and gains weight/muscle well. Typically associated with a correct rib shape.
What is easy doing/easy feeding?
This occurs when the gases produced by the rumen fermentation do not escape normally, by belching. In severe ___, death frequently results.
What is bloat?
A fungal infection that is highly contagious to other animals and humans. Shows up in circular lesions on the skin.
What is ringworm?
A young male or female bovine animal.
What is a calf?
The total feed given to an animal during a 24-hour period.
What is a ration?
A term used to describe a calf that is often finicky about feed and does not gain weight or muscle well. Usually seen in cattle with flat or incorrect rib shape.
What is hard doing/hard feeding?
The process of removing young animals from their source of milk, usually their mothers.
What is weaning?
Internal (tapeworm) or external (lice) organisms that live in or on the host calf at whose expense they obtain food, shelter, etc.
An immature female that has not calved.
What is a heifer?
The grazed, or harvested, edible parts of plants, other than the grain, to be fed to animals.
What is forage?
Refers to a calf that is easily spooked or more nervous.
What is high headed?
The fat within the muscle, or intramuscular fat.
What is marbling?
An animal that is slow to react and lacks energy is often an indication of sickness.
What is lethargy?