Vet med Term. Ch5: What is in a name (part 3)

Intact male horse more than 4 years old

stallion

Intact male horse less than 4 years old

colt

Intact female horse more than 4 years old

mare

Intact female horse less than 4 years old

filly

Castrated male horse or camelid (lamas, alpacas, guanacos, and

vicunas)

gelding

Young horse

foal

Horses giving birth

foaling

cryptorchid equime (one or both testicles habe not desended from the abdomen)

Ridgeling or rig

Group of horses cosisting of one mature stallion, his breeding mares, and the immature male and femlae offspiring of his mares

band

group of equine, goats, cattle or cervidae (deer, elk, moose, caribou)

herd

Breeding female equine

brood mare

female quine never bred

maiden mare

intact female horse that was not bred or did not conceive the previous seasion; also calle open mare

Barren mare

Intact female horse that has foaled during the current breeding season

wet mare

Intact female horse not producing milk

agalatic mare

equire between 8.2 and 14.2 hands when mature (not a young horse)

pony

Intact male dokey

jack or jack ass

Intact female

jenny

Intact male sheep

ram

Intact female sheep

ewe

Castrated male sheep or goat

wether

Young sheep

lamb

Group of sheep

flock

sheep giving brith

freshening or lambing

Intact male camelid (llamas, alpacas, guanacos, and

vicunas)

bull

Intact female camelid

cow

Young camelid

cria