Animal Science Handout

What is animal science-is the biological science and management of domestic livestock such as hog,
cattle, goat, sheep and poultry and companion animals.
QUALIFICATIION OF ANIMAL RAISER
1. KEEN OBSERVER 5. PATIENCE AND PERCEVERANCE
2 .LOVE AND INTEREST IN ANIMALS 6. KEEP RECORDS
3. INDUSTRIOUS 7. ACCOUNTING
4. PUNCTUALITY 8. CROP PRODUCER
FOUR PILLARS IN ANIMAL PRODUCTION
1. SELECTION - a process in which environmental or genetic influence determine.

2. HOUSING - any shelter or dwelling place
3. FEEDS AND FEEDING - to give food
4. ANIMAL HEALTH CARE – the state of being free from illness or injury.
SCIENTIFIC NAME
1. CHICKEN - GALLUS GALLUS DOMESTICUS

2. HOG - SUS DOMESTICUS
3. GOAT - CAPRA AEGAGRUS HIRCUS
4. CATTLE - BOS TAURUS
5. SHEEP – OVIS ARIES
6. HORSE – EQUUS CABALLUS
ANIMAL BEHAVIOR
1. CELLULAR STUDIES- the study of animal cell structure involving the use of microscopy to
study cell structure and studies investigating activity with cells
2. DEVELOPMENT- the study of an organism from the time fertilization through birth or
hatching and into later life.
3. ECOLOGY- the study of the interaction and behavioral relationship among animals and with
their environmental with one another.
COMMON HUSBUNDRY TERMS
GENERAL TERMS
1. PARTURITION - act of giving birth C. KIDDING - act of giving birth in goats
A. CALVING - act of giving birth in cows D. FOALING – act of giving birth in mares
B. FARROWING - act of giving birth in sows E. LAMBING - act of giving birth in ewes
2. ADG - average daily grain, a measures of weight response of animal or group of animals based on per
day performance.
3. ANATOMY - the science of the structure of the animal body and the relation of its parts.
4. ANIMAL BREEDING – defines the manipulation of biological differences
5. CONCEPTION - act of fertilization
6. DAM - female parent
7. SIRE - male parent
8. FECUNDITY - female ability to produce fertilizable ova and to provide proper environment.
9. IMPOTENCY - failure to copulate
10. PUBERTY - sexual maturity ,as exhibit by first heat or ovulation
11. STERILITY - in ability to produce normal young
12. WEANING - young animals after separation from dam
13. UDDER - the organ of the female secretes the milk
CATTLE
1. OX - ruminant member of the bovine

2. Cattle - domesticated bovine
3. Bull – male breeding ox of any age
4. Cow -mature female ox
5. Heifer - young female ox under 3years of age
6. Steer - male ox that was castrated before secondary sex character have develop.
7. Stag - male ox castrated after sexual maturity
8. Calf - young ox either sex under one year of age
9. Bull calf - young male ox under one year of age
10. Carabull - carabao bull , caraheifer, cacacow
11. Bullock – usually a stag used for draft purposes
12. Proven sire - bull about whom have sufficient unselected information to indicate his transmitting
ability
13. Transmitting ability - the ability of an animal to pass on either good of bud types and production
14. Wattle - the lobe or appendage hanging down from the skin of the throat
15. Tether - to be an with a rope or chain to prevent staying but allowing the animal to graze
HORSES
1. STALLION –MATURE MALE HORSE

2. MARE-MATURE FEMALE HORSE
3. BROODMARE-FEMALE HORSE USE FOR BREEDING
4. COLT-YOUNG MALE HORSE USUALLY UP TO 3 YEARS OLD
5. FILLY –YOUNG FEMALE HORSE USUALLY UP TO 3 YEARS OLD
6. FOAL-YOUNG HORSE OF EITHER SEX BELOW ONE YEAR AGE
7. GEILDING-CASTRATED HORSE WHILE YOUNG
8. YIELD MORE-DRY MARE WHICH HAS NOT PRODUCE OF ANY YOUNG DURING THE BREEDING
SEASON
9. RIDGING-STALLION WITH TESTES OR NONE IN THE SPECTRUM
10. EQUITATION-HORSEMANSHIP, THE ART RIDING HORSE BACK
11. VISCERA-THE SOFT INTERIOR ORGAN IN BODY CAVITIES,
SWINE
1. BOAR-mature male pig use for breeding

2. Sow –mature female pig use for breeding
3. Swine-a general and broad term for pig or hog
4. Pig-a swine below one year old
5. Hog-a swine one year or above
6. Gilt-a female pig under one year of age
7. Shote –a pig whether sex weighing approximately 60 kilograms
8. Barrow –male pig which was castrated while young ,castrated before secondary sex
9. Stag-male castrate the pigs after sexual maturity
10. Litter-a group of pigs born in one farrowing
11. Litter size-the number of young born in one litter
12. Piglets –young pig in a litter size
13. Sculling-young pig from birth up to weaning
14. Teat-the nipple or protuberance of an udder through witch the milk passes out
SHEEP AND GOATS
1. RAM OF BUCK – Male sheep of any age for breeding purposes

2. EWE – Female sheep on any age
3. LAMB – Young sheep of either sex below one year of age
4. WETHER SHEEP – Male sheep which was castrated while young, preferably between one to
three weeks of age
5. SHEARLING – Yearling sheep with two teeth
6. FLEECE – wool covering of the sheep
7. POLT – wool and skin of the sheep
8. BILLY GOAT OF BUCK – male goat of any age
9. DOE – female goat of any age used for breeding
10. KID – young goat of either sex below one year of age
11. WETHER GOAT – castrated male goat while secondary sex characters have developed
12. LET DOWN – the voluntary release of milk from the udder by the lactating female goat
MEAT AND MEAT PRODUCTS
1. Meat of different animals

a. BEEF – ox, on year or over
b. VEAL – ox, one or less
c. PORK – meat of pig
d. VENISON – meat of deer
e. MUTTON – meat of sheep, one year or over
f. LAMB – meat of sheep one year of less
g. CHEVON – meat of goat
h. HORSE MEAT – Horse
i. CARABEEF – meat of carabao
j. GAME MEAT – game animals (wild, hunted)
2. MEAT – properly dressed flesh delivered from slaughter animals
3. SLAUGHTERING – the process of bleeding, skinning and evisceration
4. BUTCHERING – process of splitting, quartering to cutting the carcass into retail cuts.
5. FECES – waste matter eliminated from the body of an animal
POULTRY
1. POULTRY – a collective term for all domestic birds rendering economic services to man
2. CHICKEN – one of the common poultry species, different from turkey, geese and ducks.
3. CHICK – young domesticate chicken while in downy stage
4. COCK – a male fowl one year and more
5. COCKEREL - a male fowl less than one year
6. CAPON – an unsexed male
7. PULLET – a female fowl less than a year
8. DRAKE – a male of duck family
9. DUCK – a female of duck family
10. DUCKLING – the young of a duck family in the downy stage of plumage
11. PLUMAGE – the feather of the fowl
12. POULT – the young the domestic poultry, properly applied until the sex can be ready
distinguished
13. ABORTION – premature birth of a fetus so that it does not survive
14. ABNORMALITY – malformation
15. ANTIBIOTIC – destroying of checking the growth of bacteria, a chemical substance why a living
microorganism used to inhibit or kill another organism
16. AUTOPSY – postmortem examination and dissection of a body to determine the cause of its
death.
17. COLUSRUM – the first milk of a nursing mother
18. CONSTIPATION – a sluggish action of the bowels
19. DYSPNEA – difficult breathing
20. DAM – female parent of a four legged animal
21. DYSTOCIA – difficult in giving birth
22. Fodder-feed for livestock
23. Forage-fodder for animals
24. Inoculation-the introduction of a specific virus in to the system
25. Husbandry-thrifty management of use farming
26. Metritis –inflammation of uterus
27. Morbidity-the quality of disease
28. Pasture –land with grass for grazing animal
29. Postmortem-examination after death
30. Quarantine-isolation because of suspect having a contagious disease
31. Ruminant-an animal that chew its cud
32. Treatment-a medical surgical care
33. Viral-pertaining for a cause virus
34. Diagnosis-the recognition of a disease from its symptom
35. Disinfectant-an agent that frees from infection
36. Jh
37. Microbes-microorganism that cause germ
38. Genes-a part of the chromosomes transmitted from parent to offspring
39. Chromosomes- any of the macroscopic bodies in the nucleus of a level cells
40. Anorexia-absence or loss of appetite
41. Afterbirth-the placenta and the other membranes expelled
42. Docile-easy manage or handled, obedient
43. Drench-to give liquid medicine to the animals by pouring down in to the throat
44. Estrus-the period of sexual excitement of witch time the female accept the mating with the male
45. Heat period-period-period during which female animal sexually receptive to the male
46. Purebred-an animal belonging to of the recognize breeds of livestock
47. Enteritis-inflammation of a intestine
48. Scour-a diarrhea condition of an animal
49. Progeny-offspring of young
50. Cauterize-to burn with a hot iron

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What is animal science-is the biological science and management of domestic livestock such as hog,

cattle, goat, sheep and poultry and companion animals.

QUALIFICATIION OF ANIMAL RAISER

1. KEEN OBSERVER 5. PATIENCE AND PERCEVERANCE

2 .LOVE AND INTEREST IN ANIMALS 6. KEEP RECORDS

4. PUNCTUALITY 8. CROP PRODUCER

FOUR PILLARS IN ANIMAL PRODUCTION

1. SELECTION - a process in which environmental or genetic influence determine.

1. CHICKEN - GALLUS GALLUS DOMESTICUS

COMMON HUSBUNDRY TERMS

1. PARTURITION - act of giving birth C. KIDDING - act of giving birth in goats

4. ANIMAL BREEDING – defines the manipulation of biological differences

5. CONCEPTION - act of fertilization

6. DAM - female parent

7. SIRE - male parent

9. IMPOTENCY - failure to copulate

10. PUBERTY - sexual maturity ,as exhibit by first heat or ovulation

11. STERILITY - in ability to produce normal young

12. WEANING - young animals after separation from dam

13. UDDER - the organ of the female secretes the milk

1. OX - ruminant member of the bovine

1. STALLION –MATURE MALE HORSE

1. BOAR-mature male pig use for breeding

SHEEP AND GOATS

1. RAM OF BUCK – Male sheep of any age for breeding purposes

1. Meat of different animals

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