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Del Mar Fair LABD
For the Del Mar Fair of 2013, Large animal study guide
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Abomasum | The fourth or true stomach of a ruminant where enzymatic digestion occurs |
| Abscess | Boil; a localized collection of pus |
| ADGA | American Dairy Goat Association, the oldest and largest dairy goat registry in the United States |
| Afterbirth | The placenta and associated membranes expelled from the uterus after kidding |
| Alveoli | Tiny hollow spheres in the udder whose cells secrete milk. Singular |
| American | A doe that is seven |
| Balling gun | Device used to administer a bolus (a large pill) |
| Bloat | An excessive accumulation of gas in the rumen and reticulum, resulting in distension |
| Bolus | A large pill for animals; also, regurgitated food that has been chewed (cud) |
| Breeding season | The period when goats will breed, usually from September to December |
| Buck | A mature male goat |
| Buckling | A young male goat, 1 to 2 years of age |
| Chevon | Goat meat |
| Cull | To remove a substandard animal from a herd; also, such a substandard animal |
| Dam | Female parent |
| Disbudding iron | A tool, usually electric, that is heated to burn the horn buds from young animals to prevent horn growth |
| Dished face | The concave nose of the Saanen |
| Doe | A female goat |
| Doeling | A young female |
| Drenching | Giving medication from a bottle |
| Dry period | The time when a goat is not producing milk |
| Enterotoxemia | A bacterial infection, usually resulting in death; also called pulpy kidney disease and overeating disease |
| Flushing | Feeding females more generously 2 to 3 weeks before breeding in order to simulate the onset of heat and induce the shedding of more eggs resulting in more offspring and improving chances of conception |
| Freshen | To give birth (kid) and come into milk |
| Gestation | The time between breeding and kidding (average 150 days). For a ewe, between 147 and 153 days |
| Heat | The condition of a doe being ready to breed |
| Horn buds | Small bumps from which horns grow |
| Intradermal | Into or between the layers of the skin |
| Intravenous | Within a vein |
| IM (intramuscular) | Within the muscle |
| Kid | A goat under 1 year of age; to give birth |
| Lactation | The period in which a goat is producing milk; the secretion of formulation of milk |
| Mastitis | Inflammation of the udder, usually caused by an infection |
| Milking through | Milking a goat for more than 1 year |
| Polled | Naturally hornless |
| Precocious milker | A goat that produces milk without being bred |
| Purebred | An animal whose ancestry can be traced back to the establishment of a breed through the records of a registry association |
| Raw milk | Milk as it comes from the goat; unpasteurized milk |
| Reticulum | The second compartment of the ruminant stomach |
| Rumen | The first large compartment of the stomach of a ruminant stomach where cellulose is broken down |
| Scours | Persistent diarrhea in young animals |
| Service | Mating |
| Settled | Having become pregnant |
| Sire | Male parent; to father |
| Standing heat | The period during which a doe will accept a buck for mating, usually about 24 hours |
| Subcutaneous | Beneath the skin |
| Udder | An encased group of mammary glands provided with a teat or nipple |
| Wattle | Small, fleshy appendage. Wattles are hereditary, not all goats have them, and they serve no useful purpose |
| Wether | A castrated male |
| Anestrus | The non |
| Bag | The ewe's udder, or mammary glands |
| Black wool | Any wool containing black, or dark, fibers |
| Bright wool | Light, clean wool |
| Broken mouth | Old ewe or ram that has lost teeth. The condition usually begins around 4 years of age |
| Carpet wool | Coarse, harsh, strong wool suitable for producing carpets |
| Castrate | To remove the testicles from a male so he is permanently incapable of breeding |
| Clean wool | Usually refers to scoured wool, though hand spinners may use the phrase to describe a grease wool that has little or no vegetable contamination |
| Clip | The total annual production from a flock |
| Closed face | A sheep that has heavy wool about the eyes and cheeks |
| Club lamb | A lamb raised as a 4 |
| Crimp | The "wave'' effect in wool fibers |
| Cud | A bolus of regurgitated food |
| Degreased wool | Wool that's been cleaned chemically to remove all "grease", or lanolin |
| Dock | To cut off the tail; the remaining portion of the tail of a sheep that has been docked |
| Elastrator | A device that is used to apply a heavy rubber band to the tail or scrotum of a lamb for docking or castrating |
| Scrotum | The external pouch that contains the testes |
| Estrus | The time during which a ewe will allow a ram to breed her. Normally, a ewe is in estrus for about 28 hours |
| Ewe | Mature female |
| Ewe lamb | Immature female |
| Fitting | Preparing an animal for show |
| Fleece | The wool from one sheep |
| Flock | A group of sheep |
| Freshening | Giving birth |
| Graft | Have a ewe accept and mother a lamb that isn't her own |
| Grease wool | Wool as it comes from the sheep |
| Lamb | Newborn or immature sheep, typically under 1 year of age |
| Mutton | Meat from a mature or aged sheep |
| Open face | A sheep that doesn't have much wool around the eyes and cheeks |
| Ovis Aries | Scientific name for domestic sheep |
| Ram | Mature male; also called buck |
| Ram lamb | Immature male |
| Shearing | The act of clipping wool from a sheep |
| Teaser | A ram or stag that is incapable of breeding ewes but is used to find when ewes are in heat |
| Weaning | Stopping lambs from suckling on their dams |
| Yearling | Ewe or ram between 1 and 2 years old |
| Sow | A female pig that has produced at least one litter of pigs |
| Gilt | A young female pig that has not been farrowed |
| Farrowed | Produced a litter of pigs |
| Barrow | A male pig that has been castrated and thus has no testicles |
| Boar | An intact male pig |
| Hog | A swine weighing more than 120 pounds |
| Swine | stout bodied short legged omnivorous animals |
| Steer | A male bovine after castration |
| Heifer | A young female bovine that has not calved |
| Herd | A group of goats or cattle |
| cow | A bovine female that has had one or more calves |
| Drove | A group of pigs |
| Flock | A group of sheep |
| Bull | An uncastrated male bovine of any age |
| Calf | A young bovine of either gender, less than a year old |
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