large animals

Question 1

bolus

Answer 1

large pill or mass of food

Question 2

balling gun

Answer 2

tool used to administer pils, boluses, or magnets to livestock

Question 3

gomer bull

Answer 3

heat detecting bull altered to be unable to breed successfully

Question 4

graze

Answer 4

to eat grasses and plants that grow close to the ground

Question 5

browse

Answer 5

to eat bushes, shrubs or trees

Question 6

rumenalysis

Answer 6

colection and evaluation of rumen contents

Question 7

benzimidazoles

Answer 7

class of dewormers, includes fenbedndazole, thiabendazole, etc

Question 8

rumping

Answer 8

method of restraining sheep by placing them in a sitting posiiton with the front legs elevated

Question 9

fly strike

Answer 9

infestation with maggots

Question 10

replacement heifer

Answer 10

young female cow raised to replace a less desirable cow

Question 11

finishing

Answer 11

feeding high quality feed before slaughter to increase carcass quality and yield

Question 12

drench

Answer 12

oral administration of liquid medications

Question 13

burdizzo

Answer 13

emasculatome; castration device that crushes the spermatic cord directly through the skin

Question 14

chute

Answer 14

mechanical device that is used to restrain the head and body of livestock

Question 15

stanchion

Answer 15

mechanical device that secures livestock around the neck to allow acessibility for feeding, milking, and examining

Question 16

springer

Answer 16

cow that is near parturition

Question 17

cull

Answer 17

to remove an animal from the rest because it does not meet a standard or is unproductive

Question 18

ungulate

Answer 18

animals with hooves; artiodactyls and perissodactyls

Question 19

polled

Answer 19

breed of a normally horned species that does not grow horns

Question 20

casting

Answer 20

restraint method using ropes to place an animal in lateral recumbancy

Question 21

cria

Answer 21

baby llama

Question 22

marbling

Answer 22

streaks of fat distributed throughout meat

Question 23

freshening

Answer 23

giving birth to dairy animals thus starting a fresh lactating cycle

Question 24

drying off

Answer 24

ending the production of milk when milk yield i slow or before freshening

Question 25

disbudding

Answer 25

debudding; to remove horn growth in kids or calves by use of a hot iron or caustic substance

Question 26

fleece

Answer 26

wool

Question 27

crimp

Answer 27

the amount of wave in wool

Question 28

shorn

Answer 28

sheared

Question 29

dental pad

Answer 29

heavily keratinized surface of the upper jaw of ruminants that occludes with the lower incisors

Question 30

supernumerary teats

Answer 30

more than normal numbers of teats