1. Basic Animal Science
Common Terms to Know

2. Ankole-Watusi Cattle
These cattle are the show-stoppers of the bovine kingdom. Medium-sized animals, with long, large-diameter horns, they attract attention wherever they appear. These regal animals can easily trace their ancestry back more than 6,000 years and have often been referred to as "cattle of kings."

3. Ankole-Watusi Sire

4. Male Castrated before sexual Maturity Steer Bovine…Bull Barrow
Weather
Gelding
Bovine…Bull
Porcine…Boar
Sheep…Ram
Horse...Stallion

5. Steer

6. Barrow…

7. Duroc Male…Boar

8. Female
Cow Cattle
Sow Swine
Ewe Sheep
Mare Horses

9. Mare and foal

10. Imature Female
Heifer Cattle
Gilt Swine
Ewe Lamb Sheep
Foal Horses

11. Heifer

12. Young Animal
Calf Cattle
Pig Swine
Lamb Sheep
Foal Horses

13. Pig

14. Group For Breeding
Herd Cattle
Herd Swine
Flock Sheep
Stud Horses

15. Flock
Flock of sheep

16. Meat Produced
Beef Bovine
Pork Porcine
Mutton Sheep
N/A Equine

17. Slow roast…Mutton

18. Meat produced by Young
Veal Cattle
Pork Swine
Lamb Sheep
N/A Horses

19. Veal Chop

20. Person in Charge
Herdsman Cattle
Herdsman Swine
Shepherd Sheep
Trainer Horses

21. Buck Brannaman…Horse Whisperer

22. Registration Recorded in:
Herdbook Cattle
Herdbook Swine
Flockbook Sheep
Studbook Horses

23. Purebred
Animals that have been members of the same breed since the breed was founded.

24. Crossbred
One whose sire and dam were both purebred but of different breeds.

25. Sire
Male Parent

26. Dam
Female Parent

27. Scrub animal
Of inferior breeding

28. If only one parent usually the sire is purebred.
Grade Animal
If only one parent usually the sire is purebred.

29. Pedigree
A list of the ancestors of the family history of the animal.

31. Progeny
Offspring
Children
Young
Descendants

32. Rumen Reticulum Omasum Caesum
Ruminant Animal stomach has 4 compartments
Rumen Reticulum Omasum Caesum

33. Cannulas of various types for closing fistulas have been described from time to time.
Rumen fistulas are used for nutritional and physiological studies.
Cannula

34. A Fistula is a hole.
permanent rumen fistula affords ready access to the rumen for sampling its contents, without sacrificing the animal or resorting to the stomach tube method.

36. Questions