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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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