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36 Cards in this Set
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ear notching
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identification method used in swine in which notches of various patterns are cut in the ear.
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hog hurdle
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portable partition used to move swine by blocking the area in which the pig should not go.
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hog snare
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restraint method in which a pigs snout is secured via a loop tie that is attached to a long handle.
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checkoff
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system where a portion of the sale price of every pig goes to the national pork board to promote and improve the pork industry
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finish
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degree of fat on an animal that is ready for slaughter
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farrow to finish
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full service swine operation that houses breeders, newborns,weanlings,and feeder stock.
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farrow to wean
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swine operation that houses breeding sows and offspring until they reach weaning age or weight.
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feeder to finish
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swine operation that raises weanling pigs to market weight.
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specific pathogen free
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national system of accrediting free of specific diseases animals are obtained by cesarean section and raised in isolation to prevent certain infectious diseases
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ringing
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act of implanting a wire ring through a pigs nose to discourage rooting.
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sling
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swine restraint device with four leg holes and an additional hole under the neck for blood collection, device looks like a hammock.
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cross fostering
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moving piglets from one litter to another to balance the litter size
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piles
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term for prolapsed rectum in swine
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wallow
think of shallow water |
natural and artificial area to cool off swine.
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closed herd
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group if animals that restrics new animals from entering
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open herd
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animals from another groups are allowed to join the already existing group
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grower
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swine from about 40-100 pounds
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finisher
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swine over 100 pounds that is ready to be slaughtered
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needle teeth
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eight temp incisors and canine teeth of young swine
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tusk
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overgrown canine of boar
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bordetella
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bacterina causing respritory disease. atrophic (wasting away) rhinitis (stuffy nose) pathogen (causing a disease)
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clostridium perfringens type C
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bacterina causing enterotoxemia that results in diarrhea and high mortality
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e.coli
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bacterina causing colibacillosis that causes edema, ataxia, and death
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erysipelas
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bacteria causing acute septicemia, skin lesions,chronic arthritis, and endocarditis
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haemophilus
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bacteria causing respritory disease associated with acute onset, pyrexia and reluctance to mvoe
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leptospirosis
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bacterial disease if swine associated with pyrexia, anorexia, neurologic signs and abortion
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mycoplasma
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bacteria causing respritory disease seen largely in young pigs with a severe cough
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parvovirus
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parvovirus infection affecting mainly gilts and associated with abortion
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pasteurella
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bacteria causing respritory disease that sometimes leads to pericarditis and pleuritis
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porcine proliferative enteropathy
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bacterial disease that causes iletis
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porcine respritory and repordiuctive syndrome
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arteriviral disease of swine characterized by reporductive failure in sows and respritory disease in young and growing pigs...abrv...PRRS
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pseudorabies
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herpesvirus infection associated with pryexia and neurologic signs
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rotavirus
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rotavirus associated with vilous destruction in the intestine, malabsorption and diarrhea
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streptococcus suis
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bacterial infection that causes menangitis
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swine influenza
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orthomyxoviral infection that causes respritory diease
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transmissible gastroenteritis
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coronaviral disease of swine characterized by billois destruction of jejenum and ileum, malabsporption, diarrhea, and dehydration, abbriviated TGE
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