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APSC CH.1
Ch1 Defintions
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Avian | Pertaining to poultry and/or fowl |
| Barrow | A castrated male hog |
| Biometry | The application of statistics to topics in biology |
| Boar | An intact male hog. Boars are kept only for breeding purposes. Boar meat has a characteristic unpleasant taste. |
| Broiler | A chicken of either sex produced and used for meat purposes. Generally slaughtered at 6 weeks of age or younger. The term fryer is often used interchangeably. |
| Buck | Term used for both an intact male rabbit and an intact male goat |
| Chick | A young chicken or gamebird of either sex from 1 day old to about 5 to 6 weeks of age |
| Colt | A young male horse |
| Doe | A female goat ; a female rabbit |
| Domestic Animals | Species brought under human control and adapted to life with humans aka tamed. |
| Equine | pertaining to horses |
| Ewe | a female sheep |
| Filly | A young female horse |
| Foal | A newborn horse of either sex sometimes used up to the time of weaning after which colt and filly are most likely used. |
| Gelding | A castrated male horse. |
| Gilt | Any female pig that has not yet given birth. sometimes producers continue to use the term after the first litter is born and call a first-litter sow a first-litter gilt |
| Hen | A mature female chicken or turkey |
| Husbandry | The combined animal care and management practices |
| Lamb | A sheep under 1 year of age. Also, the meat from a sheep under 1 year of age. |
| Layer | A hen in the physiological state of producing eggs regulary |
| Mare | A mature female horse |
| Meat | The flesh of an animal used for food |
| Per capita | Per unit population |
| Pork | The meat from a hog. In many parts of the world, the term pig meat is preferred. |
| Rooster | A mature, male chicken, Also referred to as a cock |
| Sow | Female pig that gas given birth |
| Stallion | A mature, male horse that is not castrated. Castrated male horses are geldings. |
| Tom | A male turkey. Also called a gobbler. |
| Beef | The meat from cattle other than calves (that is called veal) |
| Bovine | Refers to cattle |
| Bull | Intact male bovine |
| Calf | A young bovine animal under one year of age |
| Caprine | Refers to goats |
| Cow | A sexually mature female bovine animal, one that has produced a calf |
| Cwt | abbreviation for hundred weight (100 pounds) |
| Heifer | young female bovine before having her first calf |
| mutton | meat from a sheep one year of age or older |
| Ovine | refers to sheep |
| Porcine | Refers to swine |
| Steer | A castrated male bovine animal |
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