Animals Science Test 1

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