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1
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What percentage of food from the U.S is sent abroad?

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2%

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What do we sell overseas?

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Meat and grains

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What are basic human needs?

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Food, shelter, clothing, fuel, emotional well being

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Animal products provide ___% of calories and ___% of protein in our diets.

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16 and 35

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What percent of per capita income dose US leave for food?

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12%

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___% to ___% of income in India and China are used for food.

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55 to 65

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What are the reason land conservation is good practice in agriculture?

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  • Sustainable agriculture
    -Utilize forage
    -Control unwanted plants
    -Control wildfires
    -Decreased use of chemical herbicides
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How has agriculture changed?

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  • Size of operations
    -Traceability of product has improved
  • family farms are declining
  • new food-producing sources
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9
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What ways has foreign agriculture influenced us?

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  • Impacts on US prices
  • Differences in production like labor rates, cost of supplies/chemicals, and Us regulations and procedures
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What affects the cost of chemicals and supplies?

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Availability

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Increased size of operations=_____?

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Decreased cost of production

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U.S wants _____ food prices.

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Cheap

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What are examples of genetic improvements that can be made in livestock and crop production?

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-Selection of superior animals and varieties
- embryo transfers, splitting, and cloning
- semen sexing

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Changes in ___ and ____ are examples of what the future holds for agriculture?

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Production and management

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Improvements in genetic helps the traceability of animal become ____.

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Nationwide

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16
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What does the future hold for agriculture?

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  • irradiation of food
  • gene mapping
    -cloning
  • genetically modified organisms
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17
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How can gene mapping help ?

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  • identifying good and bad traits
  • Identifying superior products
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How can cloning animals help?

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Create disease resistant animals

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19
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How can genetically modifying organisms help?

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  • Drought and freeze resistance
  • Pest resistance
  • Chemical resistance
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20
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Where is genetic modification prevalent in ?

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In crops

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21
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What will decrease in the future regarding agriculture?

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  • Decreased productive land available
  • Decreased interest in agriculture
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What will increase in the future regarding agriculture?

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  • Increased accountability of product
  • Increased government regulation
  • Increased cost of producing products
  • Increased animal welfare concern
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23
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How much has milk production increased by in the last 3 years?

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7,000 million

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24
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Where do most food contamination come from?

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  • You
  • Cross contamination when cooking
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Ad Libitum

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Allowing animals to eat all they want at all times.

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Compensatory Growth

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Increased growth rate in response to previous undernurishment

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27
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Calorie

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The amount of heat required to raise the temperature of one gram of water from 14.5 degrees C to 15.5 degrees C

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Kilocalorie

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Equivalent to 1,000 calories

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29
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Concentrate

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A feed that is high in energy, low in fiber content, and highly digestible.

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T.D.N

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Total Digestible Nutrients
-Includes the total amounts of digestible protein, nitrogen-free extract, fiber, and fat (x 2.25) all added together.
Approximates energy content

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Roughage

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Feed that is high in fiber, low in digestible nutrients, and low in energy. Feeds such as hay, straw, silage, and pasture are examples.

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Feeder

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Animals which need further feeding prior to slaughter

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33
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Fill

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The contents of the digestive track

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34
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Carcass Merit

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The value of a carcass for consumption

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35
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Dark Cutter

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Color of the lean in the carcass. Has a dark appearance usually caused by stress to the animal prior to slaughter

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36
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Contemporary Group

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Set of animals of same age sex and breed that have been raised under similar environmental and management conditions

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Breed

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Animals having a common origin and characteristics that distinguish them from other groups within a same species

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Scurs

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Small horn-like tissue attached to the skin of polled or de-horned animals

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39
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Cull

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To eliminate feom the breeding population

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40
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What are some identification systems used ?

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  • Branding( hot or freeze)
  • Ear tagging
  • Ear notching
  • Tattoo
  • Microchip
  • Retinal scanning
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41
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What records should be kept for beef?

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  • Birth Date
  • Sire
  • Dam
  • Birth Weight
  • Weaning weight
  • Gain Test Weight
  • Yearling Weight
  • Yearling scrotal weight
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42
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Fertility

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The capicity to initiate, sustain, and support reproduction

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43
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Open

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Refers to non-pregnant females

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44
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Haploid

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Half the normal number of chromosomes. Found in sperm and Ova.

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45
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A.I

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Artificial Insemination

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46
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Clone

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An individual grown from a single somatic cell of its parents and genetically identical to it

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47
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Estrus or Heat

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The period of mating active

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48
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Estrus or Heat

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The period of mating activity in the females

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49
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Estrous

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An adjective meaning “ heat” that modifies such words as “ cycle”. Estrous cycle, or time from one heat period to the next.

50
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Estrus Synchronization

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Controlling the estrous cycle so that a high percentage of the females in the herd express estrus at the same time.

51
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The gestation period for equine is ____

52
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The gestation period for a Bovine is ___

53
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The gestation period for Porcine is ____

54
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The gestation period for ovine is ____

55
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The gestation period for caprine is____

56
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Dystocia

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Difficult birth

57
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Anestrous Period

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The time when a female is not cycling. She is not experiencing estrus and thereby will not breed .

58
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Castration

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Removing the testicles

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Spaying

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The removal of the ovaries from the reproductive tract ( most often done in cats and dogs)

60
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Colostrum

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The first milk given by the female following delivery of her young. Contains high levels of antibodies which are absorbed by the young for quick immunity.

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Lactation Period

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Period that female produces milk

62
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Dry

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Refers to a non- lactating female( mare, cow, ewe, sow)

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Weaning

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Seperating an offspring animal from its dam( mother)

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Cattle =

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Male of breeding age for bovine is called

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Mature female Bovine is called

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An immature female Bovine is called

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A newborn bovine is called

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An unsexed male bovine is called

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Groups of bovine is called

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The genus for bovine is

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The act of Parturition for Bovine is called

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Horse =

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The male of breeding age for equine is called

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The mature female for equine is called

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A young male in equine is called

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A young female in equine is called

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A newborn equine is called

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The unsexed male in equine is called

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Groups of equine is called

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The genus for equine is

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The act of parturition for equine is called

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Swine =

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The male of breeding age for porcine is called

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The mature female for porcine is called

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A young female in porcine is called

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A newborn in porcine is called

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A unsexed male in porcine is called

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Groups of porcine is called

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The genus for porcine is

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The act of parturition for porcine is called

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Goats =

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The male of breeding age for caprine is called

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The mature female for caprine is called

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A young male caprine is called

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A young female caprine is called

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A newborn caprine is called

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A unsexed male caprine is called

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A group of caprine is called

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The genus of caprine is

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The act of parturition for caprine is called

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Sheep =

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The male breeding age of ovine is called

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The mature female for ovine is called

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A young male ovine is called

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A young female ovine is called

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A newborn ovine is called

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An unsexed male ovine is called

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A group of ovine is called

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The genus for ovine is

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The act of mating for ovine is called

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The act of parturition for ovine is called

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Chicken =

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The male of breeding age for gallus is called

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A mature female gallus is called

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A young male gallus is called

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A young female gallus is called

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A unsexed male gallous is called

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A group of gallus is called

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The genus of gallus is

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The act of mating for gallus is called

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