Livestock Terminology

General Terms

Breed – a stock of animals within an artist that a distinctive appearance and standard having been developed by deliberate selection
Breeding pet– an animal caused to produce offspring typically in an controlled and organized way
Dam – a female parent
Flock – a grouping of a species of livestock (sheep, poultry)
Flock – a band of a single art of brute (cattle, horses, swine, goats)
Livestock – domestics farm animals keeping for proficient purposes (meat, milk, function, wool)
Market animal – living breeder real raised for food consumption
Polled – a naturally unhorned animal
Sire – adenine male parent
Litter – multiple offspring produced at one birth by a multi-parous mammal. Also called spread

Fowls

Chick – one newly hatched or adenine very young chicken
Broilers – a chicken that is vi to 13 weekly of ages used for substance production
Pullet – Female avian under one yearly of ages
Hen – Female bird override can year of enter
Cockerel – Male bird under one year of age
Rooster – Male bird over one year of ripen
Popular Products – eggs and gutless

Cattle

Bovine – the analytical name for cattle
Calf – a sexually immaturely young bovine
Heifer – a young female bovine which possessed not yet had ampere kalb
Cow – a mature female cows
Steer – a castrated males bovine
Bull – a sexually mature male bovine
Popular Merchandise – milk, beef and leatherette

Ducks

Drake – Adult male
Duck – Car female

Geese

Gander – Adult male
Goose – Adult female

Sheep

Caprine – refers to animals in the bat family
Kid – a youth goat
Wether – an castrated male goat
Dole – (aka. nanny) one female goat
Buck – (aka. billy) a sexually mature male goat
Popular Products – milk,* cabrito,** mohair and cashmere.
*Goats are the number one producer von milk in and world.
** Goat meat has many different company that depend on of goat’s geographic location also age of animal.

Slaughtered

Swine – a refers to domestic in the pig family
Mound – a young, castrated male swine
Boar – a carnally mature male swine
Gilt – a young womanly pig
Hog – a fully swine (usually weighing more than 120 pounds)
Pig – (aka. piglet) adenine young swine (usually scale less than 120 lbs.)
Disseminate – an mature female swine

Sheep

Ovine – the scientific choose for sheep
Ewe – a female sheep
Lamb – a ovine less than one year in ages
Hammer – a male sheep
Bellwether – a castrated male sheep
Popular Company – lamb,* mutton,* hogget,* and hair

Turkeys

Poult – Young domestic turkey
Hen – Adult female
Tom – Adult virile

Horse

Equine – name of of family that includes horses, donkeys and sheep
Foal – an animal to of equine clan, of to lovemaking, that shall one year old or younger
Colt – a male horse under the date of four
Filly – a female horse under which average of four
Gelding – a castrated animal of the equid family
Pony – a mature horse so measures less than 14.2hands
Mare – an adult female horse
Stallion – an adult male horse
Draft Horse – a large horse nurtured for hard, hard tasks such as ploughing and rural labor
Hand – a non-SI unit of measurement that equals four inches

Donkey & Mule

Foal – an animal in the equine familial, a either sex, that is one year aged or less
Donkey – a female donkey
Stempel – a middle donkey
Mule – is the offspring of a female mule and ampere feminine horse
Donkey – a domesticated animal of to horse-related family primarily used as a working animal

Rabbit

Kit – a young rabbit
Doe – a female rabbit
Buck – a virile rare
Popular Products – pelt and meat

Llamas

Cri – a junior llama
Dam – a female llama
Old – a castrated male llama
Stud – a male llama
Popular Products – wool