QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS LATEST UPDATE
1. Artificial Insemination
ANSWER-A process of manually injecting semen into the cervix or uterus of a female by a person
2. Altricial
ANSWER-An animal that is helpless at hatching or birth. born at an under developed state.
3. Body Score
ANSWER-Used to assign value 1-9 based on how fat or thin they are
4. Colostrum
ANSWER-a specialized form of milk that delivers essential nutrients and antibodies in a form that
the newborn can digest
5. Culling
ANSWER-Determining which animals will not be bred in a herd and getting rid of them.
6. Dam
ANSWER-a female parent
7. Dystocia
ANSWER-Difficulty in being born or giving birth.
8. Forage
ANSWER-the component of the diet which is less energy dense and contains more fiber. Includes,
grasses, legumes, and hays
9. Gait
ANSWER-a type of movement. the gaits used by walk, pace, trot, gallop, and pronk
10. Gestation
ANSWER-refers to the length of time between when a fertilized egg implants in the wall of the
female's uterus and the birth of the young.
11. Pedigree
ANSWER- a list of ancestors, family tree, the history or origins of something. Also a registered or
recorded known line of descent.
12. Purebred
ANSWER-An organism that always produces offspring with the same form of a trait as the parent.