Vocabulary

The following list of vocabulary words should be familiar to everyone enrolled in ANSC 245 "Applied Animal Management."  You will be expected to understand and use the appropriate vocabulary in describing animals, processes, equipment, etc.  If uncertain of the defination, check the USDA-LBRU website under Additional Resources and look it up.  If the defination is not found or the meaning is not clear, don't hesitate to contact the instructor or TA's.  If other unfamiliar terms are used in this course that are not included in this list, please inform the instructor and we will add them to this list!
 

Afterbirth
All-in/all-out
Anestrus
Anorexia
Ante Partum
Anterior
Anterior Presentation
Antibiotic
Antibody
Artificial Insemination
Bacterin
Barrow
Battery Cage
Beak Trimming (Poultry)
Bellowing (Cattle)
Blatt (Sheep)
Bloat
Boar
Bovine
Branding
Breech Presentation
Broiler
Broodiness
Buck
Bull
Buller-Rider Syndrome
Bulling (Cattle)
By-product fats
Caesarean Delivery
Calf
Calving (Cattle)
Canine
Cannibalism
Capon
Castration
Cattle
Caudal
Chin Pressing
Chute
Clutch
Cock
Cockerel
Colt
Corpus Luteum
Coupling (Swine)
Cow
Crate
Cryptorchid
Cud
Cystic Follicle
Dam
Debeaking (Poultry)
Dehorning
Desnooding (Turkey)
Dewattling (Poultry)
Diestrus
Docking
Doe
Dorsal
Drake
Dubbing (Poultry)
Duck
Duckling
Dust-Bathing (Chicken)
Epiphora
Essential Amino Acid
Estrous Behavior
Estrous Period
Estrus
Farrowing (Swine)
Farrow-to-finish
Farrowing Crate
Farrowing Hysteria
Feather Pecking (Poultry)
Feeder Pig
Fiber, crude
Filly (Horse)
Fleece Pulling (Sheep)
Flehmen
Flight Zone
Flock
Foaling (Horse)
Forage(s)
Fowl
Freemartin
Free Stall
Fresh
Freshen (Cattle)
Frontal
Gander
Gelding
Gilt
Gosling
Hairball
Hand Breeding
Hatching
Heart Rate
Heat
Heat Detector
Heat, Standing
Heifer
Hen
Herd
Hermaphroditism
Hernia (Rupture)
Hind Gut Fermenter
Hinny
Huddling
In Calf (Cattle)
In Foal
In Milk
Infanticide
Infantophagia
Insemination
Intermediate Host (parasites)
Jenny
Kid
Kidding
Labor
Lactation
Lamb
Lambing
Lateral Recumbency
Least Cost Ration
Lethargy
Libido
Limited Feeding
Lip-Curling
Litter
Maiden (Horse)
Mare
Marker Animal
Mastication
Maternal Behavior
Maternal Inadequacy
Maternal Rejection
Milk Ejection
Milk Letdown
Milking
Milking Parlor
"Mm" Vocalization (Cattle)
Molting
Mongastric
Mothering Ability
Mounting
Mule
Multiparous
Natural Insemination
Natural Breeding
Natural Mating
Natural Service
Necropsy
Nonprotein Nitrogen
Notching
Nudging
Nursing Grunt (Swine)
Nutrient
Oiling
Omnivorous
Optimal Ration
Ovine
Ox
Palatability
Parentral
Parturition
Parturition Interval
Parturition Period
Peck Order
Pecking
Pig
Piglet
Piling (Poultry)
Pipped Egg (Poultry)
Pipping
Placentophagia
Polled
Pony
Porcine
Post-Natal
Postpartum
Poult
Poultry
Preconditioning
Preparturient Behavior
Primary Breeder Flock
Proestrus
Prolapse
Puberty
Pullet
Ram
Respiration
Rooster
Ruminant
Runt
Savaging
Scours
Seasonal Anestrus
SEW (segregrated early weaning)
Shearing
Siblings
Silent Estrus
Silent Heat
Sire
Slip (Poultry)
Sow
Sperm Sac
Splay Leg (Swine)
Splay-Footed
Spreader Injury
Springer
Spur (Poultry)
Stag
Stallion
Standing Heat
Sternal Recumbancy
Subcutaneous
Tail Biting (Swine)
Tail Restraint (Cattle)
Teaser
Teasing
Teat Dipping
Teratogen
Tie Stall
Tom
Toxoid
Tupping (Sheep)
Tusks
Udder
Vealer
Vital Signs
Water Bag
Waxy-Seal (Horse)
Weaning
Weanling
Wether
Withdrawal time
Wool Picking
Wool Pulling
Yearling
Zoonosis (zoonotic agent)

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