Livestock Breeding Systems

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Across
  1. 1. intact male bovine
  2. 2. form of inbreeding which attempts to maintain a close relationship to a highly regarded ancestor
  3. 5. length a baby is carried
  4. 8. performance “expected” from the progeny of each sire or dam
  5. 15. descendent or offspring of an animal
  6. 16. An animal of just one known breed, though not necessarily purebred or registered
  7. 18. act of giving birth
  8. 20. animal's genetic composition
  9. 21. 5/8 Shorthorn genetics and 3/8 Brahman
  10. 22. unit of inheritance
  11. 23. offspring's male parent
Down
  1. 1. 3/8 Brahman and 5/8 Angus
  2. 3. offspring's female parent
  3. 4. crossbred offspring exceed the average of the two parental breeds
  4. 6. The mating of unrelated individuals within a breed to produce superior offspring by obtaining “new” genetics
  5. 7. used in beef cattle breeding refers to crossbred cattle that result from the mating of crossbred bulls to crossbred females to form a new line or population
  6. 9. animal’s physical characteristics
  7. 10. the record of descent of an animal
  8. 11. used to describe a new line of cattle from an open breeding program where new breeds can be added at any time
  9. 12. mating of related individuals in which the sire and dam share at least one ancestor
  10. 13. typically, an intact male horse used for breeding purposes
  11. 14. the tendency of a crossbred individual to show qualities superior to those of both parents.
  12. 17. abnormal, slow or difficult birth
  13. 19. different version of a gene