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Animal Sci.
Animal Sci.
2. Terms for the male and female parents, baby, and male and female when young under each animal species
COMMON NAME MALE PARENT FEMALE PARENT BABY OFFSPRING YOUNG MALE YOUNG FEMALE
COMMON NAME PARTURITION TERM MEAT TERM VOICE CASTRATED MALE CASTRATED MALE
BEFORE PUBERTY AFTER PUBERTY
STAGE STAGE
BOVINE Cattle/buffalo
CANINE Dog
CAPRINE Goat
EQUINE Horses
FELINE Cats
OVINE Sheep
PORCINE Swine
Lagomorphs Rabbit
a. General Terms
any member of the group of vertebrate animals in which the young are nourished with milk from special mammary
1 Mammals glands of the mother
the age in postnatal life when gonads produce gametes and sex hormones in sufficient quantities to enable an animal
3 Puberty to reproduce
Heat or a period during the reproductive cycle when female animals become sexually receptive, signaling they are
4 Estrus ready for mating
Ovulation, the cyclical pattern of ovarian activity that facilitates female animals to go from a period of reproductive
5 Estrous Cycle receptivity to non-receptivity ultimately allowing the establishment of pregnancy following mating
10 Sterility Infertility
The physical separation of calves from the hinds so that the calves are no longer dependent on their mothers for food
15 Weanling (milk) and security
16 Impotency unable to engage in sexual intercourse because of inability to have and maintain an erection or an inability to copulate
18 Incubation the maintenance of uniform conditions of temperature and humidity to ensure the development of eggs
the period immediately after hatch when special care and attention must be given to chicks to ensure their health and
19 Brooding survival
e. Lambing the time in the spring when female sheep give birth to lambs
B. Cattle and Carabao
2 Cattle domesticated bovine farm animals that are raised for their meat, milk, or hides or for draft purposes
4 Cow A fully grown female animal of a domesticated breed of bovine, used as a source of milk or beef
9 Bullcalf
10 Caracow sexually mature female carabao that has given birth at least once and with age of 3 years old and above
12 Carabull Sexually mature uncastrated male carabao usually kept for breeding
13 Caraheifer sexually mature female carabao that has not yet given birth
C. Horse
a mare or female horse which has been bred and has given birth to a foal, but the foal has either died at birth, or within 2
7 Yeld Mare weeks of birth
A colt which does not have both testes palpable in the entirety below the external inguinal ring, and includes a colt that has
8 Ridgling had one testicle removed
D. Swine
1 Boar any of the wild members of the pig species Sus scrofa, family Suidae
The stage that comes after lactation in which the piglets are taken away from their dam and normally proceed to eat only
6 Weanling solid food
4 Shearling skin from a recently sheared sheep or lamb that has been tanned and dressed with the wool left on
13 Lamb the meat from a young sheep, and is also the name given to the animals themselves, up until one year of age
F. Poultry
1 Poultry Domesticated avian species that can be raised for eggs, meat and/or feathers
2 Chicken A type of poultry used for meat, egg and feathers
9 Drake Adult male, a sexually mature adult male duck of any species, both wild and domestic
14 Squab A tender and moist dark meat. It has a slight game flavor, similar to duck
16 Broiler Any chicken that is bred and raised specifically for meat production
17 Brood the natural behavior in which birds stop laying and sit on eggs to incubate them
18 Clutch the total eggs a bird lays per each nesting attempt
20 Spent Hen egg-laying hens reaching the end of their laying cycles
G. Nutrition
1 Nutrition The taking in and use of food and other nourishing material by the body
2 Nutrient elements in feed that are used by the animal for growth and production
3 Feeds Animal feed, food grown or developed for livestock and poultry
5 Concentrates Animal feeds that are rich in energy and/or protein but low in fiber
The process of quantifying the amounts of feed ingredients that need to be combined to form a single uniform mixture
7 Feed Formulation (diet) for poultry that supplies all of their nutrient requirements
8 Digestion The breakdown of food into smaller components that can be absorbed into the bloodstream.
All physical reactions such as absorption, degradation, transformation, excretion and utilization of nutrients supplied to the
9 Metabolism animal
10 Amino Acids the building blocks of proteins and polypeptides that are the major component of animals' muscles and tissues
10 Game Meat Wild animals and birds that are hunted and eaten
I. Slaughtering
2 Stunning ensures the animal is unconscious and insensible to pain before being bled out at slaughter
3 Bleeding Severing the carotid arteries and jugular veins, or the blood vessels from which they arise
The process whereby the hides of the larger animals such as cattle or camels, or the skins of the smaller
4 Flaying animals, such as calves, goats or sheep, are removed from the carcass
5 Singeing the major process by which hair on the skin of slaughtered goat is removed
The process of treating carcass with hot water or steam for efficient removal of the bristles or feathers by the
7 Scalding dehairer/defeatherer
8 Slaughtering the process for killing of animals intended for human consumption
The neck and some other parts, such as the liver, of a bird that may be removed before the bird is cooked, or
10 Giblets that may be cooked and eaten themselves or used as a flavoring
J. Scientific Name of common farm animals:
Duck Anatidae