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Hog Heaven
VMT Chapter 21
| Swine are ______ animals and have organ systems similar to ____ and _____. | Monogastric, Dogs, Cats |
| What type of hooves do swine have? | Cloven Hooves |
| What age of swine are recommended for food production? | Young pigs because older hogs develop strong flavor in meat |
| Most hogs raised for meat yield a dressing of ___ to ____ percent of their body weight. | 65, 80 |
| What are the two types of swine? | Meat-type Hog Bacon-type Hog |
| What do meat-type hog produce in terms of meat? | Ham, Loins, and Roasts |
| What do bacon-type hog produce in terms of meat? | Bacon and Sausage |
| Pigs typically farrow between how many piglets per year? | 7 - 12 Piglets |
| What is the gestation length for pigs? | 114 days |
| Backfat | Thickness of fat along the dorsum of the pig |
| Boar Taint | Odor of pork harvested from adult boar |
| Checkoff | System where portion of sale price of every pig goes to the National Pork Board to promote and improve pork industry. |
| Dressing | Amount of meat produced by one pig |
| Dunging Pattern | Tendency for animal to eliminate wastes in a particular location |
| Ear Notching | Identification method used in swine in which notches of various patterns are cut in the ear |
| Farrowing Pen | Sow holding area that has guardrails and floor junctures that allow young pigs to escape, pen is larger than a crate |
| Finish | Degree of fat on an animal ready for slaughter |
| Free-access Gestation Housing | Holding area allowing sows to move about and socialize with access to individual stalls when they want to eat and rest |
| Hide | Pig Skin |
| Hog Hurdle | Portable partition used to move swine by blocking area in which pigs should not go |
| Hog Snare | Restraint method in which pig's snout is secured by loop tie attached to long handle, also called a snare |
| Hog-tight | Fencing preventing animal escape |
| Lard | Soft, white fat that is the product of rendering pig fat |
| Needle Teeth | Eight temporary incisors and canine teeth of young swine |
| Piles | Prolapsed rectum in swine |
| Ringing | Act of implanting a wire ring through a pig's nose to discourage rooting |
| Sling | Swine restraint device with four leg holes and hole under the neck for blood collection, looks like a hammock |
| Specific Pathogen Free | National system of accrediting an animal free of specific diseases |
| SPF | Specific Pathogen Free |
| Tusk | Overgrown canine tooth of boar |
| Wallow | Natural or artificial wading area for swine to cool themselves or avoid biting insects |
| Closed Herd | Group of animals that restricts entrance of new animals |
| Farrow-to-finish | Full service swine operation that houses breeders, newborns, weanlings, and feeder stock |
| Farrow-to-wean | Swine operation that houses breeding sows and offspring until they reach weaning age or weight |
| Feeder-to-finish | Swine operation that raises weanling pigs to market weight |
| Finisher Pig | Swine over 100 lbs to slaughter |
| Grower Pig | Swine from about 40 to 100 lbs |
| Open Herd | Group of animals in which animals from other groups are allowed to join the existing group |
| Starter Pig | Swine from about 10 to 40 lbs, also called feeder pig |
| Bordetella | Bacteria causing respiratory disease, atrophic rhinitis pathogen |
| Clostridium Perfringens Type C | Bacteria causing enterotoxemia that results in diarrhea and high mortality |
| E. Coli | Bacteria causing colibacillosis which then causes edema, ataxia, and death |
| Erysipelas | Bacteria causing acute septicemia, skin lesions, chronic arthritis, and endocarditis |
| Haemophilus | Bacteria causing respiratory disease associated with acute onset, pyrexia, and reluctance to move |
| Leptospirosis | Bacterial disease of swine associated with pyrexia, anorexia, neurological signs, and abortion |
| Mycoplasma | Bacteria causing respiratory disease seen largely in young pigs with a severe cough |
| Parvovirus | Parvovirus infection affecting mainly gilts and associated with abortion |
| Pasteurella | Bacteria causing respiratory disease that sometimes leads to pericarditis and pleuritis |
| Porcine Proliferative Enteropathy | Bacterial diseases caused by Lawsonia Intracellularis that causes ileitis |
| Porcine Respiratory and Reproductive Syndrome | Arteriviral disease of swine characterized by reproductive failure in sows and respiratory disease in young pigs |
| PRRS | Porcine Respiratory and Reproductive Syndrome |
| Pseudorabies | Herpesvirus infection associated with pyrexia and neurologic signs |
| Rotavirus | Rotavirus associated with villous destruction in the intestine, malabsorption and diarrhea |
| Streptococcus suis | Bacterial infection that causes meningitis |
| Swine Influenza | Orthomyxovirus infection that causes respiratory disease |
| Transmissible Gastroenteritis | Coronaviral disease of swine characterized by villous destruction of jejunum and ileum, malabsorption, diarrhea, and dehydration |
| TGE | Transmissible Gastroenteritis |
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