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Name three roles animals play in the lives of humans.
Food, labor, and medicine
Name two categories of animals that exist.
Wildlife and production animals
Name 4 animal by-prodcuts
Rabbit brain, honey, leather, eggs
How did Missouri rank in terms of beed cattle, hogs, and chickens compared to other states?
Beef: 3rd in the nation, Hogs: 7th in the nation, Chicken: 10th in the nation.
Name 5 things a high-quality breeding female should have and tell me why they should have those traits
wide hips to birth the calf, wide chest for her organs, structurally correct to be mounted, strong top line, needs to look feminine to be sold or her genes for her babies.
Name 2 traits a breeding male should have and why he should have them.
Wide chest to passion to his cals and structurally sound reproductive organs to reproduce.
Cattle scientific name
Bost taurus
Swine scientific name
Sus domesticates
Sheep scientific name
Ovias Aries
Chickens scientific name
Gallus Gallus Domesticus
Hores scientific name
Equus Caballus
Turkey scientific name
Meleagris gallopavo
A group of living organisms consisting of similar indivduals capable of exchanging genes or interbreeding.
Species
Mature male and young male cattle
Bull
Mature female pig
sow
Mature female sheep
Ewe
Young male goat
Buckling
A group of animals within a species that have a common orgign that have distinguished characteriststs that they pass on to their offspring in a uniform manner.
Breed
Mature female cattle
Cow
Young female pig
Gilt
Casteraed goat and sheep
wether
animals whose sire and dam are of the same breed
Purebred
Castrated male cattle
steer
Castrated male pig
barrow
Young male and female sheep
lamb
Offspring resulting from the crossing or a male of one breed with the female of another breed.
crossbreed
Young female cattle
Heifer
Young male pig
Shoat
Mature male goat
Buck
young female goat
doeling
Baby heifer or bull
Calf
Mature male pig
Boar
Mature male sheep
Ram
Mature female goat
Doe
Baby goat
kid
Baby pig
piglet
Mature male chicken
Rooster
castrated male chicken and turkey
capon
Baby turkey
pullet
3.5-5 pound chicken
Roaster
2.5-3.5 pounds chicken
Fryer
weighs 2.5 pounds chicken
broiler
older hen weighs 5-7 pounds
Stew chicken
mature male turkey
Tom
Mature female chicken
hen
Young female turkey
hen poult
young female chicken
pullet
young male turkey
poult
Mature male horse
Stallion
Mature female horse
Mare
Young male horse
Colt
young male horse
Filly
Castrated male horse
Gelding
Baby horse
foal
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