Beef Cattle
True or False. A cow/calf operation is purchasing weanling calves from cow/calf producers and feeds them out on pastureland.
False
most common fencing used for sheep pastures
What are woven or net fences?
114 Days
What is the gestation period for swine?
The traditional weaning age of a lamb is 3 months of age True or False
what is True
is the process of allowing certain animals to be parents of future generations while culling others.
What is selection?
What is a consumer?
A) a person who purchases goods and services for personal use
B) a person who is actively engaged in farming and who receives a substantial amount of total income from the production of grain or livestock
C) an agricultural professional who raises living animals or plants.
Answer A
- Maintaining fencing
- night penning
- providing guard animals
- discouraging predators
What are ways to reduce the risk of predators?
the removal of the testicles from a male swine
What is castration?
Breeding primarily in the winter and fall when the day is shorter
what is seasonal breeding
the production of offspring by a sexual or asexual process.
What is reproduction?
Name one nutritional practice.
- Having fresh, clean water readily available
- providing pasture-fed cattle with mineral supplements and salt blocks
- providing feedlot-fed cattle rations consisting of a concentrate portion and roughage portion
______ is meat from a sheep greater than a year of age
What is mutton?
Pigs are ______ meaning they have one true stomach
What is a monogastric?
The common gestation period for swine is
what is three weeks three months three days
a method in which the food is consumed by the organisms and utilizes the nutrients from the food.
What is nutrition?
Selection practices include which of the following
A) becoming familiar with anatomy
B) ensuring structural correctness
C) utilizing performance records
D) evaluating cattle
E) all of the above
Answer E
True or False. Mutton and lamb are the same.
False
True or False. Typically a young animal requires a higher level of protein in the diet than an adult does.
True.
what is seed stock operation
what is produces purebred stock for other purebred and commercial operation
embraces a holistic vision of health, in which health is impacted by behavioral, social, and environmental determinants.
What is health management?
the insertion of a thin, flexible catheter through the cervix to inject washed sperm directly into the uterus.
What is Artificial Insemination?
caused by strains of clostridium perfringens types C and D
What is enteroxemia?
oldest original American breed of hog; muscular meat breed; extensively used as terminal sires
What is Hampshire?
whole sale cuts of swine are
what is ham, loin,side,Boston shoulder, picnic shoulder
any change or disturbance to the environment perceived to be deleterious or undesirable.
What are environmental concerns?