Pocine Chapter

Question 1

What is a culled breeding pig sold for meat?

Answer 1

backfatter

Question 2

What is a market of pigs between 140-180 pounds dressed weight?

Answer 2

baconer

Question 3

What is a castrated male pig?

Answer 3

barrow

Question 4

What is intact male pig?

Answer 4

boar

Question 5

What is a pig approximately 220 pounds, ready for market?

Answer 5

butcher hog

Question 6

What is the act of giving birth to pigs?

Answer 6

farrowing

Question 7

What is an intensive breeding system in which the producer has no finish/grow floor and sells feeder pigs?

Answer 7

fawworing/feeder pig operation

Question 8

What is a weaned gilt or barrow weighing between 40-82 pounds at 6-8 weeks and sold to be finished for slaughter?

Answer 8

feeder pig

Question 9

What is a breeder that sells grower pigs to a finishing operation?

Answer 9

feeder pig operation

Question 10

What is a grower pig over 150 pounds live weight?

Answer 10

finisher

Question 11

What is a young female including first litter females pig?

Answer 11

gilt

Question 12

What is a big that is being grown out to market weight?

Answer 12

grower pig

Question 13

What is a group of swine?

Answer 13

herd

Question 14

What is the generic term for swine?

Answer 14

hog

Question 15

What is a feeding strategy in which pigs are fed a specific amount of food in a time period?

Answer 15

limit feeding

Question 16

What is a group of piglets born to one mother?

Answer 16

litter

Question 17

What is the market weight of a pig?

Answer 17

240-250

Question 18

What is the generic term for swine?

Answer 18

pg

Question 19

What is a very young swine, usually from birth until weaning?

Answer 19

piglet

Question 20

What is a market pig between 66-120 pounds dressed weight?

Answer 20

porker

Question 21

What is the management procedures performed on neonatal swine?

Answer 21

processing

Question 22

What is the term for small sucking piglets?

Answer 22

fall backs

Question 23

What is the term for piglets weighing 2 pounds or less at birth?

Answer 23

runt

Question 24

What is the term for adult female pig?

Answer 24

sow

Question 25

What is the term for a castrated male pig after maturity?

Answer 25

stag

Question 26

What is the term for pig between birth and weaning?

Answer 26

sucker

Question 27

What is a piglet slaughtered for meat?

Answer 27

sucking pig

Question 28

What is a pig from weaning up to 40 pounds?

Answer 28

weaner pig

Question 29

What pig breed is known to be black with 6 white points and 4 white feet with a dished face?

Answer 29

Berkshire

Question 30

What breed of pig has a skid body color with a white belt around the body including both of the front legs?

Answer 30

Hampshire

Question 31

What breed of pig vatiers from light to dark with 2/3rds of the face being white along with at least 2 feet?

Answer 31

herefored

Question 32

What pig breed has characteristic-floppy ears, long bodied, with good mothering?

Answer 32

landrace

Question 33

What pig breed is known of being maximum weight at any age?

Answer 33

poland china

Question 34

What breed is know for their feed efficiency, rate of grand & carcass quality?

Answer 34

spot/spots

Question 35

What breed has very light muscle traits, erect ears, deep-sided, and well-arched?

Answer 35

tamworth

Question 36

What breed pig is known as a mother breed?

Answer 36

yorkshire

Question 37

What is the average pig litter size?

Answer 37

8-14

Question 38

What is the average piglet weight at birth?

Answer 38

3-4

Question 39

What is the average weight of a 4-5 week old piglet?

Answer 39

20-25

Question 40

By what age do piglets reach market weight?

Answer 40

5-6 months

Question 41

What is the gestation of a pig?

Answer 41

114 days | 3m 3w 3d

Question 42

What is the average estrus cycle length of a pig?

Answer 42

21 days | 19-23 days

Question 43

Enlaged vulva, reddening of the vulva, restlessness, mouthing other females, and a decreased appetite are signs of what?

Answer 43

heat

Question 44

How early can pregnancy be detected in pigs?

Answer 44

18-22 days