Breeding Programs
What is the abbreviation for expected progeny differences.
EPD
Manually depositing male sperm cells into the reproducing track of a female.
What is AI
A female cow that has not calfed
What is a heifer?
This is the method used to change a population of animals quickly from one breed to another.
Grading up
The smallest unit of inheritance
geans
How many steps are in breeding programs.
4
Removing one or more embryos from the reproductive tract of a done female and transferring them to a recipient female
What is embryo transfer
A mature female goat
Doe
is the deliberate mating of two animals that are different breeds or varieties of the same species.
Cross Breeding
What surgery can be used to stop animal from breeding
castration
What should be considered when selecting parents?
The good traits of both parents. Always select a dam and a sire that compliment each other well
replicates specific genetic traits without the genetic "lottery" and mixing that occurs in sexual reproduction
What is cloning
mature female sheep
ewe
the mating of animals more closely related than the average relationship within the breed or population concerned
Inbreeding
Important thing for newborns to drink
Colostrum
What is the animals' ancestry, can be related to genotype, and looking at desirable traits from related ancestors of animals for breeding
Pedigree
Whats the advantage of pin mating?
Less labor
an animals male parent
sire
where breeders frequently choose to mate parents who have a common ancestor, but who are not as closely related as in close inbreeding.
Linebreeding
Name two identification methods for animals
what is?
Branding
Tattoing
earnotching
a document which transparently communicates the environmental performance or impact of any product or material over its lifetime.
EPD
Mostly used by poultry and the rabbit industry?
Stud mating
An offsprings dad
Sire
bred from members of a recognized breed, strain, or kind without cross-breeding over many generations.
Purebred
chromosone pair for a female duck
ZW