Matching Pairs Livestock VocabularyOnline version Matching game by Isabella Willingham 1 Prolific 2 Maternal 3 In breeding 4 Traits 5 Purebred 6 Terminal 7 Lactation 8 Market Animals 9 Structure 10 Manure 11 Polled 12 Full Bloods 13 Homozygous 14 Dam 15 Hardiness 16 Gestation Period 17 EPD’s 18 Domestication 19 Volume 20 Milk Fat 21 Mastitis 22 Dual-purpose breed 23 Paternal 24 Selection 25 Weaned 26 Doing ability 27 Docile 28 Heterosis/Hybrid Vigor 29 Performance 30 Sire animal who has a pure and proven lineage and is most often registered the skeletal structure (correctness) period of milk production; the production of milk by the mammary glands. the process of gradually withdrawing a calf from its mother’s milk and providing it with another food source. female or mother of an offspring the natural fat of milk from which butter is made. refers to livestock which are one hundred percent purebred Feces; animal fecal matter. absence of horns in livestock animals ability to efficiently perform the sustainable basic function and most commonly related to growth Adapting an animal to the needs of humans an estimate of how a particular bull's calf will perform in certain traits compared to another bull's in that particular breed animals that will be sold and slaughtered for meat The amount of substance an animal can hold (ie. offspring, feed, muscle) animal which provides at least two kinds of resources Identifying desirable animals for breeding purposes is capability for livestock to stay strong and healthy especially during unfavorable conditions result of a mating where the offspring shows qualities superior to those of both parents measure of how the animal will perform and hold up in production ability to produce offspring in abundance anything related to the mother or the mother’s side of the mating male or father of an offspring refers to an animal or operation which is being used or produced solely for the production of a resource, most often meat (muscle) livestock which are calm, not aggressive and are easily trained and handled anything related to the father or the father’s side of the mating Mating animals that are related When an udder is infected Characteristics that can be passed down from parent to offspring are called the period of development during the carrying of an embryo or fetus inside animals. when two copies of the same gene are passed through mating and can either be two dominant traits or two recessive traits 1 Colostrum 2 Breed 3 Breeding animals 4 Cutability 5 Condition 6 Cross-breeding Programs 7 Conformation 8 Cull 9 Castrate Removing an animal from its herd (many times sent away to be slaughtered.) Animals that, through selection and breeding, have come to resemble one another and pass those traits uniformly to their offspring. program which breeds two animals of different breeds, varieties or populations in an effort to increase hybrid vigor - may result in a new breed First drink of milk that the young livestock takes physical formation especially pertaining to the shape and structure of an animal Fat to remove the testicles of a male animal. percentage of boneless, trimmed and saleable meat (muscle) versus the percentage of waste fat animals that are kept to reproduce (mostly referring to females)
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