Ruminents Flashcards

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Ruminants

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are cud-chewing animals that have forestomachs that allow for fermentation of ingesta

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Balling gun

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Tool used to administer pills, boluses, or magnets to livestock

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Malpresentation

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Abnormal position of the fetus just before labour

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Tail jack or tailing

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Restraint technique used in cattle in which the tailhead is grasped and raised vertically

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Finishing

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Feed beef cattle high quality feed to increase carcass quality

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Roughage

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High fiber low nutrient feed

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Hutch

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Individual housing pen for calves
Cagelike accommodation for rabbits

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Stanchion

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Restraint device that secures cattle around the neck to allow accessibility for milking, feeding, examining

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Nose tongs

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clamp used to grasp the nasal septum to restrict movement

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Beef checkoff

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a national marketing and research program designed to increase the demand for beef at home and abroad.

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Body capacity

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Heart girth and barrel

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Bulk tank

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Holding tank in a dairy farm used to store milk until its picked up by a coopreration

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California mastitis test

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A test that is a cow sided indicator of somatic cell count to determine the presence of mastitis

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Cod

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Remnants of steer scrotum

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Colostrometer

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Instrument designed to float in a sample colostrum to measure the specific gravity

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Confined animal feeding operations

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Large operations that raise animals in a limited amount of space

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Conformation

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shape and body type of an animal

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Corium

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Specialized, highly vascular cells that nourish the hoof and horn

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Downer

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a recumbent animal that has failed to respond to treatment

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Fly strike

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infestation with maggots

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Gomer bull

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Bull used to detect female bovines in heat

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Grade

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An animal not registered with a breed association

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Gutter

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Channel b/w cows in stanchions that collect manure

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Offal

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Inedible visceral organs and unusable tissues removed from the carcass of a slaughtered animal

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Parturitiet paresis
Hypocalcemic metabolic disorder of ruminants seen in late pregnancy or early lactation
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Pinch
Common term used for bloodless castration using an emasculatome
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Scurs
Underdeveloped horns that are not attached to the skull
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Gland cistern
Area of udder where milk collects before entering the teat cistern
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Strip cup
Metal cup with a lid that is used for detecting mastitis
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Teat cistern
Cavity in the udder where milk is secreted before leaving the teat
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Ensling
Process in which a forage is chopped, placed in a storage unit that excludes oxygen, and fermented to allow longer preservation of food
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Silage
Type of roughage feed that is produced by ferment ing corn, grasses, or plant parts under specific moisture conditions to ensure preservation of feed without spoilage
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Band
Large group of range sheep
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Browse
Woody twigs and leaves consumed by sheep and goats
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Cardling
Process of separating straighteningq and aligning wood fibers
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Crimp
Amount of wave in wool
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Crutching
Process of clipping wool from dock, udder, and vulva of sheep before lambing
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Farm flock
Sheep raised in pasture and farm situations
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Grease wool
Wool that has been shorn form a sheep and has not been cleaned
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Lanolin
Fat like substance secreted by the SQ glands of the sheep
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Open face
Sheep with no wool on the face
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Rumping
Method of restraining sheep by placing them in a sitting position with the front legs elevated
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Cabrito
Meat of young goats under 50lb
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Chevon
Adult goat meat
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Clip
hair harvested from one animal in one shearing
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Disbud
To remove horn growth in kids or calves by use of a hot iron or castration
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Waddle
Appendage suspended form the head in chicken, turkeys, and goats
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Cushing
Common term for copulation of llama
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Berserk Male Syndrome
Undesirable behaviours sometimes seen in male llamas
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Dust pile
An area of the ground that camelids use for rooting
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Fighting teeth
Set of 6 teeth in llamas that include an upper vestigial incisors and an upper and lower canine on each side
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Kush
Act of camelid lying down sternally or the actual position when it is lying down
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Orgle
Call of a male llama or alpaca
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BMS
Berserk male syndrome
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BRSV
Bovine respiratory syncytial virus
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BVD
Bovine viral diarrhea
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CAFO
Confined animal feeding operation
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CMT
California mastitis test
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F1
First offspring
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IBR
Infectious bovine rhinotracheitits
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PI-3
Parainfluenza virus
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RSV
Respiratory syncytial virus
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SCC
Somatic cell count
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TE
Tetanus
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TRP
Traumatic reticuloperitonitits
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WMT
Wisconsin mastitis test