Pocine Chapter Flashcards
What is a culled breeding pig sold for meat?
backfatter
What is a market of pigs between 140-180 pounds dressed weight?
baconer
What is a castrated male pig?
barrow
What is intact male pig?
boar
What is a pig approximately 220 pounds, ready for market?
butcher hog
What is the act of giving birth to pigs?
farrowing
What is an intensive breeding system in which the producer has no finish/grow floor and sells feeder pigs?
fawworing/feeder pig operation
What is a weaned gilt or barrow weighing between 40-82 pounds at 6-8 weeks and sold to be finished for slaughter?
feeder pig
What is a breeder that sells grower pigs to a finishing operation?
feeder pig operation
What is a grower pig over 150 pounds live weight?
finisher
What is a young female including first litter females pig?
gilt
What is a big that is being grown out to market weight?
grower pig
What is a group of swine?
herd
What is the generic term for swine?
hog
What is a feeding strategy in which pigs are fed a specific amount of food in a time period?
limit feeding
What is a group of piglets born to one mother?
litter
What is the market weight of a pig?
240-250
What is the generic term for swine?
pg
What is a very young swine, usually from birth until weaning?
piglet
What is a market pig between 66-120 pounds dressed weight?
porker
What is the management procedures performed on neonatal swine?
processing
What is the term for small sucking piglets?
fall backs
What is the term for piglets weighing 2 pounds or less at birth?
runt
What is the term for adult female pig?
sow
What is the term for a castrated male pig after maturity?
stag
What is the term for pig between birth and weaning?
sucker
What is a piglet slaughtered for meat?
sucking pig
What is a pig from weaning up to 40 pounds?
weaner pig
What pig breed is known to be black with 6 white points and 4 white feet with a dished face?
Berkshire
What breed of pig has a skid body color with a white belt around the body including both of the front legs?
Hampshire
What breed of pig vatiers from light to dark with 2/3rds of the face being white along with at least 2 feet?
herefored
What pig breed has characteristic-floppy ears, long bodied, with good mothering?
landrace
What pig breed is known of being maximum weight at any age?
poland china
What breed is know for their feed efficiency, rate of grand & carcass quality?
spot/spots
What breed has very light muscle traits, erect ears, deep-sided, and well-arched?
tamworth
What breed pig is known as a mother breed?
yorkshire
What is the average pig litter size?
8-14
What is the average piglet weight at birth?
3-4
What is the average weight of a 4-5 week old piglet?
20-25
By what age do piglets reach market weight?
5-6 months
What is the gestation of a pig?
114 days
3m 3w 3d
What is the average estrus cycle length of a pig?
21 days
19-23 days
Enlaged vulva, reddening of the vulva, restlessness, mouthing other females, and a decreased appetite are signs of what?
heat
How early can pregnancy be detected in pigs?
18-22 days
