UNIT 12 Common terminologies

Gestation period - Pregnancy period

- Time of conception to birth
 Cattle - 279 – 287 days
 Buffalo - 305 – 320 (riverine) days
- 320 – 340 (swamp) days
 Goat - 145 – 155 days
 Sheep - 141 – 151 days
 Pig - 112 – 115 days
 Horse - 330 – 340 days
 Donkey - 365 days
Sire - Male parent
Dam - Female parent
Puberty - Sexual maturity / first heat
Fertility - Ability to produce matured ova
Conception - Fertilization
Impotency - Failure to copulate
Sterility - Inability to produce an offspring
- Irreversible
Fecundity - Prolificacy; ability to produce numerous young at frequent intervals
Parturition - Giving birth
 Calving - Cattle / buffalo
 Farrowing - Pigs
 Kidding - Goat
 Foaling - Horse
 Lambing - Sheep
 Oviposition - Chicken
 Kindling - Rabbit
 Whelping - Dog
 Littering / Queening - Cat
Act of mating
 Serving - Cattle / Buffalo / Goat
 Tupping - Sheep
 Covering - Horse
 Coupling - Pig
 mating - rabbit / cat / dog
SOUNDS ANIMAL PRODUCE -
 Bellowing - Cattle
 Braying - Buffalo
 Bleating - Sheep / sheep
 Crowing - Cock (male chicken)
 Cackling - Hen (female chicken)
 Quacking - Duck
 Gobbling - Turkey
 Purring - Rabbit
 Neighing - Horse
 Grunting - Pig
COLLECTIVE TERMS FOR GROUPS -
 Herd - Cattle / Buffaloes / Goat / Horse
 Flock - Chicken / Sheep / Goat
 Colony - Rabbits
 Pack - Dog
 Bevy / Clowder - Cat
 -
 General Terminologies
Cryptorkid / Cryptorchid - Male animal with only one functional testicle
Feeder - Young animal which has not been fattened, and shows evidence of ability
to gain weight rapidly and economically
Finisher - Animal ready for slaughter (market)
Runt - Young animal of small size in relation to its contemporaries
Scrub - An animal inferior in breeding & individuality
Stag - Male animal CASTRATED late in life, after puberty, after secondary sex
characteristics developed.
Stocker - Term used to define a relatively thin feeder animal
- Purchased to utilize low-quality roughage
Stud - Male FOR HIRE for breeding
Weaning - SEPARATING young from dam
Weanling - RECENTLY weaned animal
Yearling - Animal that is one year of age but not yet two
CATTLE TERMINOLOGIES
Bob Veal - Slaughter calves under 3 weeks of age
Bull - Adult uncastrated male
Bull calf - UNCASTRATED male under 1 year of age
Bullock - Usually, a stag for draft purposes
Calf - Young cattle of either sex
Cow - Adult female, calved female
Dogie - Motherless calf
Freemartin - Female born twin to a bull calf, usually sterile
Heifer - Young female from newborn until her first calf is born or she reaches 3
years of age
Heiferette - Heifer that has calved once, usually prematurely
Oxen - (singular is ox)
- bovines kept for draft purposes. Usually, steers
Proven sire - bull which has sufficient unselected information to indicate his
transmitting ability
Springer - visibly pregnant heifer during her first gestation
Stag - CASTRATED male late after the developed of some or all of the secondary
sex characteristics (also rig)
Steer - CASTRATED male before the secondary sex character developed
Veal calves - Calves fed for early slaughter, usually less than 3 months old
- spayed - sterilized female
- calf at foot - cow with its offspring
- serving - act of mating
- open - non pregnant
GOAT TERMINOLOGIES
Billy / Buck - UNCASTRATED adult male goat
Buckling - Young male goat
Doe / Nanny - Female goat of any age
Doeling - Young female goat, usually, before her first kid
Kid - Young goat of either sex
Wether goat - CASTRATED male goat before the secondary sex characters have
developed
- King - Head buck of the flock
- Queen - Head doe of the flock
SHEEP TERMINOLOGIES
Cosset - Lamb raised without help of its mother
Ewe - Female sheep capable of producing lambs
Ewe lamb - Young female sheep less than 1 year old
Gimmer - Young female sheep, usually before her 1st lamb
Hogget - Sheep from weaning until its first shearing
Lamb - Young sheep in its first year
Ram / Buck (Tup) - UNCASTRATED adult male sheep
Ram lamb - Young male sheep less than 1 year old
Slink - Very young lamb
Stag - Ram CASTRATED after about 6 months of age
Wether - CASTRATED male sheep while it was young between 1-3 weeks
- flock - group of sheep and goat
- suckling - female sheep with its offspring
- tupping - act of mating
- bummer lamb - those that cannot be fed by the ewe (prolific sheep)
- open faced - short hair on the face ()
- Close faced / wool blind - Sheep with wool on the face must be clipped out
PIG TERMINOLOGIES
Barrow - CASTRATED male while young
Boar - UNCASTRATED male
Gilt - Young female that has not yet farrowed
Litter - All the piglets farrowed
Litter size - The number of piglets in one litter
- 6 – 15 piglets
Piglet - Newborn of either sex
Shoat - Young pig of either sex, weighing approximately 60 kg
Sow - Adult female pig
Stag - Male pig CASTRATED after sexual maturity
Suckling - Young births from birth to weaning
- Drove / herd / stock - Group of pigs
- Coupling - Act of mating
HORSE TERMINOLOGIES
Horse – Equus caballus
Donkey – Equus asinus
Brood mare - Female horse usually used for breeding purposes
Colt - Young male horse usually up to 3 years old
Filly - Young female horse usually up to 3 years old
Foal - Young horse of either sex below 1 year of age
Gelding - Horse which was CASTRATED while young
Hinny - OFFSPRING of a stallion and a female donkey
Jack - Adult Male UNCASTRATED donkey
Jenny - Adult Female donkey
- Also called jennet
Mare - Mature female horse
Matron - Mare that has produced a foal
Ridgling - Stallion with only one testis or none in the scrotum
Stallion - Mature male horse
Stud horse - Stallion used for breeding
Yeld mare - Dry mare, which has not produced any young, during the breeding season
Mule - OFFSPRING of a mare and a male donkey
- Covering - act of mating
POULTRY TERMINOLOGIES
 Meleagris gallopavo - Turkey
 Gallus gallus doemsticus - Chicken
 Anas platyrrhyncos - Mallard duck
 Cairina moschata - Muscovy duck
  Anser anser - Goose
 Coturnix coturnix - Quail
Poultry - Collective term for all domestic birds or bird captive
- Raised for meat, eggs, feathers
- Rendering economic service to man; can refer also to dressed carcass of
fowls
Broiler - Young chicken raised for meat
Chick - Newborn chickens
Fowl - Birds belonging to one of two biological orders:
1. Gamefowl or landfowl
2. Waterfowl irrespective of age, sex or breed
Layers - Chickens developed to produce large number of eggs
Laying / oviposition - Act of parturition in bird
Hen - Female after the first moult
- Often used to describe females after they have started to lay
Pullet - Female in her first laying season
- Often used to refer to young females post brooding to point of lay
Spent hen - Layer that has reached the end of her economic egg laying life
Rooster - Male bird
Cock - Male that has finished one season as a breeder
- Refers to older male birds
Cockerel - Young male from Day old to the end of its first year of breeding
- often used to refer to young males up to 6 months of age
Capon - an unsexed male
- readily distinguished by the underdeveloped comb and wattle
- clutch - group of chicks
- flock - group of chickens
POULTRY (TURKEY)
Tom - mature male turkey
Poult - very young turkey
Hen - mature female turkey
Capon - castrated male turkey
POULTRY (DUCKS)
Paddling / raft / team - group of ducks
Duckling - young duck of either sex
Drake duckling - young male
Duckling - young male
Drake - adult male duck
Duck - adult female duck
POULTRY (GOOSE)
Gaggle / skein - group of geese in land
Wedge - group of geese in flight
Gosling - young goose of either sex
Gander gosling - young male
Goose gosling - young female
Gander - adult male
Goose - adult female
RABBIT TERMINOLOGIES
Colony / Nest - group of rabbits
Kit - newborn of either sex
Male kit - young male
Female kit - young female
Buck - adult male
Doe - adult female
Lapin - CASTARTED male
Kindling - Act of parturition

Squab - Young pigeon