Livestock Terminology

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