Swine Industry Vocab

2. High quality feed made available to young animals.
4. Pigs that are bred for exhibition, usually by 4-H and FFA students.
7. Hybrid vigor.
8. Acceptability of a feed or ration to livestock.
9. Having only one stomach.
13. Diet formulated to meet all the nutritional needs of an animal.
16. Moving young from their dam and placing them with another female for rearing.
18. A pig weighing between 30-90 lbs.
19. The faster an animal reaches market, the smaller the percentage of total lifetime feed is used.
21. Animals that eat both plant and animal based foods.
22. Procedures designed to minimize disease transmission from outside and inside a production unit.
23. Food that has a nutrients in significant amounts.
24. The meat from a hog

1. The amount of feed required to produce a unit of gain.
3. Having feed available at all times.
5. Removing offspring from the dam (prevents nursing).
6. Respiratory disease of swine causing reproductive problems.
8. A voluntary educational program introduced to enhance the quality of pork.
10. A breeding herd is maintained and pigs are produced and finished for market on the same farm.
11. No new animals are introduced to the herd.
12. In a herd, the average age of the parents when their offspring are born.
14. A coronavirus that affects swine, causing diarrhea and vomiting; high incidents of death in young pigs.
15. An early-weaned pig of light weight, which is housed in a special environmentally controlled building.
17. In swine, the term used for giving birth.
20. The period when the female is pregnant.