Parents
Anything related to the mother or the mother's side of the mating.
What is maternal?
Animals that will be sold and slaughtered for meat.
What is a market animal?
Animal which provides at least 2 kinds of resources.
What is a dual-purpose breed?
Characteristics that can be passed down from parent to offspring.
What are traits?
Animal fecal matter.
What is manure?
Anything related to the father or the father's side of mating.
What is paternal?
Percentage of boneless, trimmed and salable meat (muscle) versus the percentage of waste fat.
What is cutability?
Livestock which are 100% purebred.
What are full bloods?
When two copies of the same gene are passed through mating and can either be two dominant traits or two recessive traits.
What is homozygous?
Male or father of an offspring.
What is a sire?
Removing an animal from its herd (many times sent away to be slaughtered).
What is culling?
Animal that has a pure and proven lineage and is most often registered.
What is a purebred?
Female or mother of an offspring.
What is a dam?
Animal or operation which is being used or produced safely for the production of a resource, most often meat (muscle).
What is terminal?
Period of development during the carrying of an embryo or fetus inside animals.
What is the gestation period?