General Terms Flashcards
General Terms
•- Animals with a four-chambered stomach (e.g.
goats
•- A group of sheep.
Flock
•- A group of goats.
Herd
•Livestock - Domesticated farm animals raised for meat
milk
General Terminologies Used in Animal Science
1.- the act of giving birth
Parturition
- in cows/carabao
Calving
- in sows
Farrowing
- in goat
Kidding
- in Ewes
Lambing
2.- the act of fertilization
Conception
3.- female parent
Dam
- the ability to give birth to offspring frequently or numerous
Fecundity/prolificacy-
5.- the ability to produce fertilizable ova and to provide the proper environmi
Fertility
division and embryonic development; the ability to produce a large number of sperm c
6.- pregnancy time from conception to birth
Gestation
7.- failure to copulate
Impotence
8.- sexual maturity as exhibited by first heat or ovulation
Puberty
9.- the male parent
Sire
10.- inability to produce a young
Sterility
11.- the ability of an animal to pass on either good or bad traits tc
Transmitting ability
12.- the process of separating the young from their dam
Weaning
13.- young animal after separation from its dam
Weaning