Livestock Terminology
Across
- 3. Bone, area on the lower leg between the knee or hock down to the fetlock joint
- 4. the latin adjective for goats
- 6. the joint on the hind leg that corresponds to the knee of the human
- 8. an immature female pig
- 9. a young or immature bovine
- 10. an intact male bovine
- 13. the latin adjective for sheep
- 15. the joint on the hind leg that bends backward
- 16. a castrated male bovine of any age
- 17. the top of the head and the beginning of the neck
- 21. the latin adjective for horses
- 24. the latin adjective for hogs
- 25. sections of the ear that are cut into a piglet's ear to identify liter and individual number
Down
- 1. where the hind legs and barrel of the animal meet
- 2. the process of giving birth in pigs
- 5. a castrated male goat or sheep
- 7. burns a specific pattern into the skin of an animal
- 11. part of the back going from the last rib to the front of the hips
- 12. a type of identification method that marks the animal for a short time
- 14. use of ink and needle-like numbering pliers to mark the ears or lip
- 18. the process of giving birth in goats
- 19. a type of identification method that marks the animal for a it's lifetime
- 20. an intact male goat
- 22. the latin adjective for cattle
- 23. a mature female horse