Ag Crossword #2

2. Method used to label livestock for the purpose of individual recognition.
4. The type and amount of food and drink habitually ingested by a person or an animal.
6. A product of significantly less value than the major product. In beef cattle, the major product is meat; by-products include the hide and other items.
9. the length of time cut flowers can stay in a vase before they die
10. Growing program for feeder cattle from time calves are weaned until they go to a feedlot.
12. A specialized area on the dairy farm where the milking process is performed. Cows are brought into the parlor two or three times a day.
15. Pigs from birth until approximately three weeks old.
17. the storage or shipment of flowers out of water
18. Animals having a common origin and distinguishing characteristics.

1. Young female chicken used for producing meat type offspring.
3. the process of converting nutrients, water, carbon dioxide, and sunlight into food for plants
4. Refers to an animal that is gentle in nature.
5. A purpose of foliage is to hide the mechanics in a flower arrangement
7. To remove the tip of the upper mandible to prevent cannibalism and fighting.
8. To remove or prevent the growth of horns to protect humans and other animals from being injured.
11. A heat treatment used to remove pathogens from the milk.
13. the tight positioning of flower clusters at the base of an arrangement forming rounded hills
14. The impression of the design being stable and self-supported
16. Pigs from approximately three until nine weeks old.