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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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10
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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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13
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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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19
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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

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Hypocalcemic metabolic disorder of ruminants seen in late pregnancy or early lactation

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26
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Pinch

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Common term used for bloodless castration using an emasculatome

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Scurs

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Underdeveloped horns that are not attached to the skull

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Gland cistern

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Area of udder where milk collects before entering the teat cistern

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Strip cup

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Metal cup with a lid that is used for detecting mastitis

30
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Teat cistern

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Cavity in the udder where milk is secreted before leaving the teat

31
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Ensling

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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

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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

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Large group of range sheep

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Browse

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Woody twigs and leaves consumed by sheep and goats

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Cardling

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Process of separating straighteningq and aligning wood fibers

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Crimp

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Amount of wave in wool

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Crutching

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Process of clipping wool from dock, udder, and vulva of sheep before lambing

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Farm flock

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Sheep raised in pasture and farm situations

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Grease wool

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Wool that has been shorn form a sheep and has not been cleaned

40
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Lanolin

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Fat like substance secreted by the SQ glands of the sheep

41
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Open face

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Sheep with no wool on the face

42
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Rumping

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Method of restraining sheep by placing them in a sitting position with the front legs elevated

43
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Cabrito

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Meat of young goats under 50lb

44
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Chevon

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Adult goat meat

45
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Clip

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hair harvested from one animal in one shearing

46
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Disbud

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To remove horn growth in kids or calves by use of a hot iron or castration

47
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Waddle

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Appendage suspended form the head in chicken, turkeys, and goats

48
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Cushing

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Common term for copulation of llama

49
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Berserk Male Syndrome

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Undesirable behaviours sometimes seen in male llamas

50
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Dust pile

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An area of the ground that camelids use for rooting

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Fighting teeth

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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

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Act of camelid lying down sternally or the actual position when it is lying down

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Orgle

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Call of a male llama or alpaca

54
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BMS

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Berserk male syndrome

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BRSV

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Bovine respiratory syncytial virus

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BVD

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Bovine viral diarrhea

57
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CAFO

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Confined animal feeding operation

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CMT

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California mastitis test

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F1

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First offspring

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IBR

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Infectious bovine rhinotracheitits

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PI-3

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Parainfluenza virus

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RSV

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Respiratory syncytial virus

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SCC

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Somatic cell count

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TE

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Tetanus

65
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TRP

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Traumatic reticuloperitonitits

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WMT

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Wisconsin mastitis test

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