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Viral disease that is highly contagious. Hogs will have a high fever, lose their appetite, become weak, and drink much water.

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Hog cholera

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Affects the reproductive tract of the female causing young to be aborted

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Bangs or brucellosis

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Bacterial disease. High fever, poor appetite, bloody urine, females will abort their fetuses.

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Leptospirosis

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Viral disease attaching swine. Adults may serve as unaffected carriers. Piglets usually show clinical signs. Fever, paralysis, coma, and death.

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Pseudorabies

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Bloody scours is a type of diarrhea caused by treponema hyodysenteriae. Usually found in young pigs loss of appetite, soft feces, and a slight fever

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Swine dysentery

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Produce large numbers of young

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Prolific

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Baby pig

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Piglet

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Male castrated at a young age

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Barrow

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Young female that has not farrowed

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Gilt

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Older female

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Sow

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Male hog

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Boar

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Male hog

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Boar

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Lard type and bacon type hogs declined in use

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Meat type hog

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Select an animal that is close to ideal as possible

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Type

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Record of an individual heredity

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Pedigree

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Tool for measuring thickness of backfat

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Probe

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Use burst of high frequency sounds

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Ultrasonic

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Nonpathological disorder in heavily muscled animals that results in sudden death loss

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Porcine stress syndrome PSS

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Pigs are free of disease at birth

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Specific pathogen free SPF

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Pig weighing about 40lbs and has just been weaned.

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Feeder pig

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Mostly hogs are marketed for slaughter 220 to 240lbs

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Finishing

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Involves a contract between a producer and a buyer before hogs are raised

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Contract production

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Giving birth to pigs

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Farrowing

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Pigs are born having 8…

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Needle teeth

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Clipping the tail from baby pigs

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Tail docking

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Period before slaughter when an animal should not receive a practical medication or other product

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Withdrawal

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