| A | B |
|---|
| Meat from a 15-30 pound goat carcass | cabrito |
| general term for meat from goats | chevon |
| all the wool or hair from one goat or sheep in a year OR one herds shearing | clip |
| another name for dehorning in goats | disbudding |
| another term for volume; refers to length and depth of the animal | capacity |
| the degree to which an animal likes its feed | palatability |
| substances made from organisms that can kill bacteria and then used to fight the disease caused by bacteria | antibiotics |
| supplementing baby animals with additional feed while they are still nursing their mothers | creep feeding |
| a way of estimating what weight cattle will be when they have reached slaughter condition; based on hip height and animals age | frame score |
| carrying unlike genes for the same trait | heterozygous |
| the amount of a substance remaining in an animal's body tissue after exposure to the substance | residue |
| a protein formed by the body's immune system to protect against disease | antibody |
| animals that have not produced offspring | barren |
| stage in a sheep's life when the teeth begin to fall out | broken mouth |
| grown in the US | domestic |
| in a heterozygous gene pair, the gene that is expressed is said to be | dominant |
| oral administration of medication | drenching |
| difficult birth | dystocia |
| accumulation of abnormal amounts of fluid in body tissues | edema |
| inflammation of the brain | encephalitis |
| animal with inverted eyelids | entropian |
| study of disease | epidemiology |
| female reproductive hormone | estrogen |
| wool in its natural state | grease wool |
| another name for hybrid vigor | heterosis |
| chemical substance produced in one region of the body that has a specific action | hormone |
| mating of individuals more closely related than the average of the breed | inbreeding |
| invasion of the body by harmful bacteria, viruses or parasites | infection |
| basic response by the body to an injury, irritation or infection, characterized by heat, redness, swelling and pain | inflammation |
| infection of the joints | joint ill, naval ill or erysipelas |
| process of removing stained or inferior wool such as belly and leg wool | skirting |
| genetic condition in which lambs have severe bone deformities | spider syndrome |
| refers to the length of wool fiber | staple |
| shearing wool off the udder and dock regions of sheep | tagging |
| preparation of whole organisms or parts used to stimulate a protective immune response | vaccine |
| internal organs of an animal | viscera |
| to take the young away from their mother | weaning |
| persistant diarrhea | scours |
| iron deficiency | anemia |
| a backwards birth | breech |
