Matching Pairs Livestock Management ScenariosOnline version Each livestock management scenario requires a specific management practice or breeding method. Figure out the correct one. by Samantha Foster 1 Dehorn 2 Natural Breeding 3 Teeth Clipping 4 Embryo Transfer 5 Debeaking 6 Identification 7 Cloning 8 Docking 9 Shearing 10 Artificial Insemination 11 Vaccination 12 Castrate The weather is warming up and a farmer does not want his sheep to have issues with heat stress. A dairy cow is far exceeding the milk production of most of the rest of the herd. She is getting a little older, and the farmer would like to have more cows with her genetics. The farmer's calves were rejected from the graded sale because they were more likely to hurt the workers and other animals. Next year, he is going to have to add a management practice to make them more desirable. A farmer finds the ideal bull for breeding his herd while searching online, but he is not for sale and is a few states away. A pig farmer wants to be sure the he can tell all of the piglets born this year apart so he can keep accurate records. A farmer wants to be sure that his lambs do not catch diseases because of sanitation issues. A farmer wants to be sure that his lambs will not catch a preventable disease. A pig is raised in a lab that has unique cancer- fighting properties in some of his cells. Researchers have never seen anything like him and want to do continued research with more pigs who have this to see if this can benefit human medicine. A chicken farmer wants to make sure that the chickens he is raising do not harm each other while sorting their pecking order or competing for food. Piglets are born with sharp teeth and the farmer wants to make sure that they do not hurt each other or their mother. A cow has a male calf that the farmer does not want to breed. A farmer owns his own bull, which is a good quality animal with desirable traits for selling meat animals. He sells his calves at the local livestock market.
New game