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42 Cards in this Set
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Castration of a male fowl |
Caponize |
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Animals that eat primarily meat |
Carnivores |
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Markets where participants buy and sell commodities which are sold for cash and delivered immediately |
Cash markets |
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Removal of the testicles of a male animal |
Castration |
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Substances that burn or destroy tissue by chemical and large intestines |
Caustics |
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Pouch connected to the junction of the small and large intestines |
Cecum |
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Basic unit of all life |
Cell |
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Strong, tough muscle that blocks the fetus from the outside world until time for birth |
Cervix |
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Threadlike structures within the nucleus of the cell that contain genetic information passed from one generation to the next |
Chromosomes |
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Male animal places with the herd after artificial insemination to ensure the maximum number of females have settled |
Clean-up male |
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First milk from mother |
Colostrum |
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Life cycle stages of an extern parasite that consist of an egg, larva, pupa and adult |
Complete metamorphosis |
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Stops the flow of blood from an artery by applying pressure |
Compression bandage |
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Feedstuff that is low in fiber and relatively high in digestible nutrients like cereal grains |
Concentrates |
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Working to develop behaviors in animals |
Conditioning |
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Measured by estimating the average price of consumer goods and services purchased by individuals |
Consumer price index |
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Transmissible to other animals |
Contagious |
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Physical act of mating |
Copulation |
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Materials that tend to eat away or consume and acid or drug |
Corrosive |
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Additional feed for young animals that supplements nutrients provided by mother's milk |
Creep feed |
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Mixing up of certain portions of genetic material during meiosis |
Crossover |
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Technique used to freeze semen |
Cryopreservation |
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Lack of testes descent into the scrotum |
Cryptorchidism |
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Proportion of lean sellable meat given by a carcass |
Cutability |
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Removal of the tip of the upper mandible of poultry |
Debeaking |
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Loose material |
Debris |
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Process of removing horns and preventing the growth of horns |
Dehorning |
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When an animal does not cycle within the proper amount of time for breeding |
Delayed breeding |
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Stage of estrous where the corpus luteum produces hormones that stimulate the uterus to prepare for pregnancy |
Diestrus |
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Energy remaining from a feed after fecal energy is lost |
Digestible energy |
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Reduction in particle size of feed so that the feed becomes soluble and can pass across the intestinal wall in to the vascular or lymph system |
Digestion |
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Condition or disorder with recognizable signs and often having a known cause |
Disease |
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Infective agents that result in decreased health in living things |
Diseases |
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Infective agents that result I decreased health in living things |
Diseases |
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Materials that destroy infective agents such as bacteria and viruses |
Disinfectants |
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Removal of the tail of an animal |
Docking |
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Removal of the tail of an animal |
Docking |
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Hand favored or used most often |
Dominant hand |
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Removal of the tail of an animal |
Docking |
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Hand favored or used most often |
Dominant hand |
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Clipping of the comb on poultry |
Dubbing |
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Birthing difficulties |
Dystocia |