Across
- 3. Hard surface of the upper mouth of ruminants that serves in place of upper teeth
- 4. To remove young from their mother so they can no longer nurse
- 5. Having resulted from the mating of two different breeds within the same species
- 8. male that remains intact
- 9. Method of permanently identifying an animal by scarring the skin with heat, extreme cold, or chemicals
- 10. Confined area where an animal is fed until it is slaughtered
- 12. An animal that has mated and is pregnant
- 14. male that has been castrated
- 15. mature female that has calved
- 18. The action of giving birth to young
- 19. Amount of fat cover on a breeding animal
- 21. Inedible visceral organs and unusable tissues removed from the carcass of a slaughtered animal
- 22. Bred and used for both meat and milk production
- 23. young female that has not calved
- 25. Head harness worn by animals for restraint that extends behind the head and over the nose
- 26. Act of increasing feed before breeding or embryo transfer to
Down
- 1. Resulting from the mating of two closely related animals (e.g., son to dam, sire to daughter)
- 2. Bred for their milk-producing qualities
- 6. Abnormal position of a fetus just before parturition
- 7. the number of ova released; typically includes feeding a grain-based diet
- 9. Group of animals that are genetically similar in color and conformation so that when mated to each other, they produce young identical to themselves
- 11. Removal of an embryo from a female of superior genetics and placing it in the reproductive tract of another female
- 13. Said of an animal whose ability to pass on specific traits is known and predictable
- 16. Shape and body type of an animal
- 17. A cud-chewing animal with a forestomach that allows fermentation of ingesta
- 20. cattle bred for beef production
- 22. To remove horns or horn buds by mechanical, thermal, or chemical means
- 24. To remove an animal from the rest because it does not meet a specific standard or is unproductive