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Terms
Term | Definition |
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Canine | Dog |
Dog/stud | Intact male canine |
Bitch | Intact female canine |
Puppy/pup | Immature canine |
Whelping | Giving birth to pups |
litter | groups of pups/offspring |
Feline | Cat |
Tom | Intact male feline |
Queen | Intact female feline |
Kitten | immature feline |
Queening | Giving birth to kittens |
Rabbit | lagomorph |
Buck | intact male rabbit or intact male goat |
Doe | intact female rabbit or intact female goat |
lapin | castrated male rabbit |
kit | immature rabbit or immature ferret |
Hob | intact male ferret |
Jill | intact female ferret |
Gib | castrated male ferret |
Sprite | female spayed ferret |
Boar | Intact male guinea pig or intact male pig |
Sow | intact female guinea pig or intact female pig |
Pup | young guinea pig |
Cavy | Guinea pig |
Mouse | Murine |
Parrots | Psittacines |
Rooster | Intact male chicken |
Hen | Intact female turkey or chicken |
Ostrich/Emu/Rhea | Ratita |
Porcine | Pig |
Barrow | castrated male pig |
Gilt | Female pig who hasn't farrowed |
Piglet | immature pig |
Farrowing/Pigging | Giving birth to piglets |
Herd | Group of pigs or group of horses |
Stallion | mature intact male equine |
mare | mature intact female equire |
Gelding | Castrated male horse |
Foal | immature equine |
Foaling | giving birth to a goal |
Pony | equine between 8.2-14.2 hands when mature |
Weanling | A horse of either sex between the point of weaning until 1 year of age |
Yearling | A horse of either sex between the ages of one & two |
Colt | immature intact male horse under the age of four |
Filly | Immature intact female horse under the age of four |
Donkey | ass or burro |
Jack | intact male donkey |
Jenny | intact female donkey |
Ovine | Sheep |
Ram | intact male sheep |
Ewe | intact female sheep |
wether | castrated male sheep or castrated male goat |
lamb | young sheep |
kid | young goat |
lambing | giving birth to lamb |
kidding | giving birth to kid |
flock | group of sheep |
Cervidae | Deer, Elk, Moose, caribou, |