Across
- 2. Relating to or affecting horses or other members of the horse family
- 7. A figure expressing the acidity or alkalinity of a solution on a logarithmic scale on which 7 is neutral, lower values are more acid and higher values more alkaline
- 8. Give birth to piglets
- 11. Containing or made from milk
- 13. The rearing of aquatic animals or the cultivation of aquatic plants for food
- 15. Mate and then producing offspring
- 16. An even-toed ungulate mammal that chews the cud regurgitated from its rumen
- 17. The removal of the testicles of a male animal
- 19. Tamed and kept as a pet or on a farm
- 20. A pig
- 21. Give birth to a calf
Down
- 1. Having a stomach with only a single compartment
- 3. Any of a group of organic compounds which are essential for normal growth and nutrition and are required in small quantities in the diet because they cannot be synthesized by the body.
- 4. Proteins collectively, especially as a dietary component.
- 5. Domestic fowl, such as chickens, turkeys, ducks, and geese
- 6. A natural oily or greasy substance occurring in animal bodies, especially when deposited as a layer under the skin or around certain organs.
- 7. Bred from parents of the same breed or variety
- 9. A medicine that inhibits the growth of or destroys microorganisms.
- 10. A regulatory substance produced in an organism and transported in tissue fluids such as blood or sap to stimulate specific cells or tissues into action.
- 12. Fibrous indigestible material in vegetable foodstuffs which aids the passage of food and waste products through the gut.
- 14. Relating to or affecting cattle
- 18. A fixed amount of a commodity officially allowed to each person during a time of shortage, as in wartime.