Vocab 75-100 Flashcards
A genetic trait in cattle where muscles are greatly enlarged rather than duplicating muscles.
Double muscling
Feeds in higher digestible nutrients and low in fiber, such as, barely, oats, cottonseed and beet pulp.
Concentrate
The time when a female is receptive to service from a breeding male, timed to the imminent release of the ovum (egg) for fertilization.
Estrus
Mechanical harvesting (gathering and chopping of forage crops entire plant) and delivery to feed bunks for livestock consumption.
Green Chop
The state of being abnormally undersized. Two kinds of dwarfs are recognized; proportinate and disproportinate.
Dwarfism
Term commonly used to indicate a female has become pregnant; also, conceived.
Settled
Immunization materials made from living or “killed” organisms and their products, used for the detection and prevention of disease; includes serums, vaccines, Bacterins, antigens, and antitoxins.
Biologics
Refers to the amount of flesh (body weight), the quality of the hair coat, and the general health of animals.
Condition
Abnormal collection of fluid in body tissues that causes soft swelling.
Edema
Animals that eat plant origin foods only.
Herbivore
Designating an animal which transmits its own characteristics to its progeny to a marked and highly uniform degree. Sometimes used to denote a high degree of fertility in males.
Prepotent
The loss of weight an animal experiences, due to excretion, during transit or movement. The standard allowance in transit of beef cattle, for example, is four percent of gross weight of the cattle at the time the purchaser takes possession.
Shrinkage
A grove in the reticulum between the esophagus and omasum. Directs milk in the nursing young ruminant directly from the esophagus to the omasum.
Esophageal groove
Livestock kept in “dry lot” for maximum year round production. Facilities may be partial or complete solid floored and enclosed or covered.
Confinement
The cellulose portion of rouphages (forages) that is low in TDN and hard to digest by monogastric animals. Ruminant animals with their rumen microorganisms are able to digest a higher portion of fibrous matter.
Fiber
The tendency of crossbred offspring to perform better, in certain traits, than the average of their parents.
Hybrid Vigor
Streaks of fat in the flank muscle of a lamb carcass.
Flank streaking
Related animals of the same generation. Half or full brothers/sisters.
Sibling
White blood cells.
Leucocytes
Refers to the shape of the body of an animal and the relation of the shape to the “ideal” type desired. Conformation and type are correlated with the product and/or performance for which the animal is used.
Conformation
An infestation with large numbers of blowfly maggots.
Fly Strike
Mating of close relations, usually sire to daughter, dam to son, brother to sister, etc..
Inbreeding
Testing the male or female for desirable production characteristics by checking the performance of their sons or daughters.
Progeny Testing
Pepared by chopping green forage into an airtight chamber, where it is compressed to exclude air and undergoes an acid fermentation that retards spoilage. Contains about 65% moisture, 3 ibs. of silage is equal to 1 ib. of hay nutritionally.
Silage
Animals having the same sire and dam.
Full sibs
