Managing Animal Health

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Across
  1. 2. Notches cut into ears for identification.
  2. 5. Practice of cleaning waste to reduce disease.
  3. 7. Professional who treats animal health problems.
  4. 10. Infection of the milk-secreting glands in dairy animals.
  5. 11. Removal of an animal’s tail.
  6. 13. Process of distinguishing individual animals.
  7. 14. Maintaining information about animal health and production.
  8. 16. Material used to keep animals clean and dry.
  9. 19. Proper feeding to maintain animal health.
  10. 21. Condition of an animal that allows it to function properly.
Down
  1. 1. Practice of keeping areas clean to prevent disease.
  2. 3. Marking animals using heat or freezing to show ownership.
  3. 4. Disease that can spread between animals.
  4. 6. Common method of identifying livestock with numbered tags.
  5. 8. Permanent marking using ink and needles.
  6. 9. Reproduction management in livestock.
  7. 10. Observing animals daily for normal and abnormal behavior.
  8. 12. Practices used to avoid illness in animals.
  9. 15. Removal of horns to prevent injury.
  10. 17. Study of inherited traits in animals.
  11. 18. Time in estrous cycle when an animal can become pregnant.
  12. 20. Removal of testicles to prevent breeding.