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38 Cards in this Set
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Bolus |
Large pill or mass of food |
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Balling gun |
Tool used to administer pills, boluses, or magnets to livestock |
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Gomer bull |
Heat detecting bull altered to be unable to breed successfully |
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Graze |
To eat grasses and plants that grow close to the ground |
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Browse |
To eat bushes, shrubs, or trees |
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Rumenalysis |
Collection and evaluation of rumen contents |
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Benzimidazoles |
Class of dewormers, includes: fenbendazole, thiabendazole, etc |
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Rumping |
Method of restraining sheep by placing them in a sitting position with the front legs elevated |
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Fly strike |
Infestation with maggots |
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Replacement heifer |
Young female cow raised to replace a less desirable cow |
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Finishing |
Feeding high quality feed before slaughter to increase carcass quality and yield |
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Drench |
Oral administration of liquid medications |
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Burdizzo |
Emasculatome, castration device that crushes the spermatic cord directly through the skin |
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Chute |
Mechanical device that is used to restrain the head and body of livestock |
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Stanchion |
Mechanical device that secures livestock around the neck to allow accessibility for feeding, milking, and examining |
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Springer |
Cow that is near parturition |
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Cull |
To remove an animal from the rest because it does not meet a standard or is unproductive |
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Ungulate |
Animals with hooves: artiodactyls and perissodactyls |
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Polled |
Breed of a normally horned species that does not grow horns |
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Casting |
Restraint method using ropes to place an animal in lateral recumbency |
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Cria |
Baby llama |
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Marbling |
Streaks of fat distributed throughout meat |
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Freshening |
Giving birth to dairy animals, thus starting a fresh lactation cycle |
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Drying off |
Ending the production of milk when milk yield is low or before freshening |
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Disbudding |
Debudding; to remove horns in kids or calves by use of a hot iron or caustic substance |
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Fleece |
Wool |
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Crimp |
The amount of wave in wool |
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Shorn |
Sheared |
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Dental pad |
Heavily keratinized surface of the upper jaw of ruminants that occludes with the lower incisors |
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Supernumerary teats |
More than the normal number of teats |
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USDA |
United States Department of Agriculture |
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APHIS |
Animal & Plant Health Inspection Service |
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FDA |
Food & Drug Administration |
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FARAD |
Food Animal Residue Avoidance & Databank |
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CMT |
California Mastitis Test |
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IBR |
Infectious Bovine Rhinotracheitis |
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BVD |
Bovine Viral Diarrhea |
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LDA / RDA |
Left/Right Displaced Abomasum |
