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