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36 Cards in this Set
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Caponize |
Castration of a male fowl |
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Carnivores |
Animals that eat primarily meat |
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Cash markets |
Markets where participants buy and sell commodities which are sold for cash and delivered immediately |
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Castration |
Removal of testicles of a male animal |
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Caustics |
Substances that burn or destroy tissue by chemical reaction |
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Cecum |
Pouch connected to the junction of the small and large intestines |
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Cell |
Basic unit of all life |
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Cervix |
Strong, tough muscle that blocks the fetus from the outside world until time of birth |
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Chromosomes |
Thread like structures within the nucleus of the cell that contain genetic information passed from one generation to the next |
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Clean-up male |
Male animal placed with the herd after artificial insemination to ensure the maximum number of females have settled |
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Colostrum |
First milk from a mother |
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Complete metamorphosis |
Life cycle stage of an external parasite that consist of an egg, larva, pupa and adult |
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Compression bandage |
Stops the flow of blood from an artery by applying pressure |
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Concentrates |
Feed stuff that is low in fiber and relatively high in digestible nutrients like cereal grains |
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Conditioning |
Working to develop behaviors in animals |
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Contagious |
Transmissible to other animals |
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Copulation |
Physical act of mating |
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Creep feed |
Additional feed for young animals that supplements nutrients provided by mothers milk |
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Crossover |
Mixing up of certain portions of genetic material during meiosis |
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Cryopreservation |
Technique used to freeze semen |
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Cryptorchidism |
Lack of testes decent into the scrotum |
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Cutability |
Proportion of lean sellable meat given by a carcass |
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Debeaking |
Removal of the tip of the upper mandible of poultry |
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Debrise |
Loose material |
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Dehorning |
Process of removing horns and preventing the growth of horns |
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Delayed breeding |
When an animal does not cycle within the proper amount of time for breeding |
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Diestrus |
Stage of estrous where the corpus luteum produces hormones that stimulate the uterus to prepare for pregnancy |
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Digestible energy |
Energy remaining from a feed after fecal energy is lost |
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Digestion |
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 |
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Disease |
Condition or disorder with recognizable signs and often having a known cause |
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Diseases |
Infective agents that result in decreased health in living things |
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disinfectants |
materials that destroy infective agents such as bacteria and viruses |
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docking |
removal of the tail of an animal |
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dominant hand |
hand favored or used most often |
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dubbing |
clipping of the comb on poultry |
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dystocia |
birthing difficulties |
