Across
- 4. procedures intended to protect humans or animals against disease or harmful biological agents.
- 6. an uncastrated male bovine animal.
- 8. The finishing period is when beef animals are fed an energy-dense diet so that they will grow rapidly and add muscle/meat to their frame and optimize fat cover in preparation for slaughter. Killing something for food
- 9. checkoff a national marketing and research program designed to increase the demand for beef at home and abroad
- 11. is a person who buys cows for slauter
- 12. cows need this to surrvive so they wont die of freezing
- 14. this means you are looking for something in nature to eat
- 16. the farther of an animal
- 17. a beef production system that involves maximal use of pasture and forages from the time calves are weaned until they are placed in a feedlot
Down
- 1. the weight of a baby at birth.
- 2. The dead body of an animal.
- 3. the mating and production of offspring by animals
- 5. ease estimates of genetic differences between animals in the ability of their 2-year-old daughters to calve without assistance.
- 6. quality assurance- a program that provides systematic information to U.S. beef producers of how good husbandry techniques can be coupled with accepted scientific knowledge to raise cattle
- 7. these are things that cows lick/Salt block filled with multipull diffrant seeds and nutrients
- 9. standard a description of the characteristics of a hypothetical or ideal example of a breed
- 10. give birth to a calf.
- 13. bunk a long trough for feeding cattle.
- 15. tag A plastic or metal object used for identification