Animal Handling/Safety | Animal Classification | Animal Reproduction | Animal Nutrition | Animal Diseases |
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What is a specially equipped, isolated pen in the sheep barn in which a ewe is placed just before she gives birth to her young.
What is a lambing pen
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What is a castrated male cow called?
What is a steer
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What is the medical or veterinary procedure of injecting semen into a reproductive female livestock animal?
What is artificial insemination
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What is the most common feed given to dairy cattle?
What is silage
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What does the FDA stand for?
What is the Food & Drug Adminstration
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What is the distance/area that causes an animal to flee from an intruder?
What is a flight zone
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What are animals having a common origin and distinguishing characteristics called?
What is a breed
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What is a sexually mature female bovine that has had a calf called?
What is a cow
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What is a small wad of regurgitated feed in a ruminant’s mouth, which is re-chewed and swallowed.
What is cud
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What does the EPA stand for?
What is the Environmental Protection Agency
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What term is defined as the study of animal behavior of animals in their natural surroundings, focusing on instinctive or innate behavior.
What is ethology
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What is the forming, sorting, apportioning, grouping, or dividing of objects into classes to form an ordered arrangement of items having a defined range of characteristics?
What is classification
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What is a sexually mature female sheep called?
What is a ewe
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What is the feed allowed to an animal during a 24-hr period regardless of whether it is fed at one time or at different times.
What is a feed ration
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What is this common disease found in sheep or goat feet?
What is foot rot
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What are three instinctive behaviors associated with livestock animals?
What are social, ingestive, reproductive, maternal and combative
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What is a key for the identification of organisms based on a series of choices between alternative characters?
What is a dichotomous key
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What is an in-tact male horse ready for breeding called?
What is a stallion
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What is any of certain organic chemical compounds of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen, which include sugars and starches. Formed in plants by photosynthesis, carbohydrates make up a large part of animal feed.
What is a carbohydrate
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What does APHIS stand for?
What is the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
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What are the three learned behavior categories associated with livestock animals?
What are imprinting, conditioning and habituation
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What is the science of classification of organisms and other objects and their arrangement into systematic groups such as species, genus, family, and order called?
What is taxonomy
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What is a hormone produced by the interstitial cells of the testes that functions in stimulating male sex drive, masculine characteristics, development of the male reproductive tract, and spermatogenesis.
What is testosterone
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What is a substance that favorably affects the nutritive processes of the body; a food. In stock feeding, any feed constituent or group of feed constituents of the same general composition that aids in the support of life, as water, proteins, carbohydrates, fats, minerals, and vitamins.
What is a nutrient
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What is anything capable of causing disease, but when referred to by most veterinarians and physicians it signifies a living, microscopic, disease-producing agent such as a bacteria or virus.
What is a pathogen
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