Breeds of Livestock
Domesticated animals raised in an agricultural setting in order to provide labor and produce diversified products for consumption such as meat, eggs, milk, fur, leather, and wool
What is Livestock?
System used in the body for the process of digestion
What is the digestive system?
The daily portion of feed prepared for animals based on their requirements
An impairment of the normal state of an animal that interrupts or modifies its vital functions
What is a disease?
A common vet procedure that is the removal of the male testes
What is castration?
The common name for swine
What is Pig?
Provides oxygen to the body's cells while removing carbon dioxide
Grouped into two classes, water or fat soluble
What is a vitamin?
An organism that lives within the body of a host, occupying the digestive tract, body cavities, or living within body organs, blood, tissues, or cells
What is an internal parasite?
A plastic or metal object used for identification of livestock
What is an ear tag?
The species that belong to the Bovine group
What is cattle?
The supportive framework for an animal's body
What is a skeleton or skeletal system?
The most abundant compound available in plants
What is a carbohydrate?
An organism that lives on the outside of the body (its host)
A method to help identify a pig’s litter and which pig of the litter it is, giving each pig a unique identity number
What is ear notching?
A breed of cattle that originated from France known for its distinctive white coat, impressive size, and adaptability
What is Charolais?
A four chambered stomach
The nutrients that are needed in substantial amounts
Macronutrients
The deliberate placement of sperm into the reproductive tract of female animals using artificial means rather than natural mating
What is sheep and goats?
Pigs have this kind of stomach
What is a monogastric stomach?
The most important nutrient for livestock consumption
What is water?
The traumatic puncture of the gastrointestinal tract with resultant spread of infection, caused by ingestion of a sharp, hard object, usually a piece of hardware (hence the name)
What is hardware disease?
The use of various methods to limit an animal's normal voluntary movement for purposes such as examination, sample collection, drug administration, or therapy
What are animal restraint techniques?