Chapter 5 - What is in a name

Question 1

Porcine

Answer 1

pig/swine

Question 2

boar

Answer 2

intact male pig

Question 3

sow

Answer 3

intact female pig

Question 4

barrow

Answer 4

male pig castrated when young

Question 5

stag

Answer 5

male pig castrated after maturity

Question 6

gilt

Answer 6

young female pig that has not farrowed

Question 7

pig/piglet

Answer 7

young pig

Question 8

farrowing

Answer 8

giving birth to pigs

Question 9

herd

Answer 9

groups of pigs

Question 10

Equine

Answer 10

horse, pony, donkey, and mule

Question 11

stallion

Answer 11

intact male equine > 4 years old

Question 12

colt

Answer 12

intact male equine < 4 years old

Question 13

mare

Answer 13

intact female equine > 4 years old

Question 14

filly

Answer 14

intact female equine < 4 years old

Question 15

gelding

Answer 15

castrated male equine

Question 16

ridgeling

Answer 16

cryptorchid equine (one or both testicles have not descended from the abdomen

Question 17

foal

Answer 17

young equine of either sex

Question 18

weanling

Answer 18

young equine <1 year old that has been removed from its mother

Question 19

suckling

Answer 19

a still nursing foal

Question 20

yearling

Answer 20

young equine between 1 and 2 years old

Question 21

foaling

Answer 21

giving birth to equine

Question 22

herd

Answer 22

group of equine

Question 23

band

Answer 23

group of horses consisting of one mature stallion, his breeding mares, and the immature male and female offspring of his mares

Question 24

brood mare

Answer 24

breeding female equine

Question 25

maiden mare

Answer 25

female equine

Question 26

barren mare

Answer 26

intact female horse that was not bred or did not conceiver the previous season

Question 27

wet mare

Answer 27

intact female horse that has foaled during the current breeding season

Question 28

agalactic mare

Answer 28

intact female horse not producing milk

Question 29

pony

Answer 29

equine between 8.2 and 14.2 hands when matured

Question 30

mule

Answer 30

hybrid offspring of a jack and a mare

Question 31

hinny

Answer 31

hybrid offspring of a stallion and a jenny

Question 32

jack/jackass

Answer 32

intact male donkey

Question 33

jenny

Answer 33

intact female donkey