Animal Breeding

• Stallion is a matured male horse used for breeding and work.
• Mare is a matured female horse.
• Colt is a young male horse.
• Filly is a young female horse.
• Gelding is a castrated young male horse.
• Ridgling is a stallion with one or both testes that can’t descend to the scrotal sac.
• Foal is a young horse of either sex.
• Foaling is the parturition in a horse.
• Yeldmare is a dry mare.
• Stag is a castrated matured male horse.
• Bull is a matured male cattle.
• Cow is a matured female cattle.
• Bull calf is a young male cattle.
• Heifer is a young female cattle.
• Steer or bullock is a castrated young male cattle.
• Free martin is an asterile female ox born twin to a male ox.
• Calf is a young cattle of either sex.
• Calving is the parturition in cattle.
• Beef is the meat of matured cattle.
• Veal is the meat of young cattle.
• Carabao is a domesticated water buffalo.
• Carabull is a matured male carabao.
• Caracow is a matured female carabao.
• Caracheifer is a young female carabao.
• Doe is a matured female rabbit.
• Buck is a matured male rabbit.
• Hutch is the shelter of rabbits.
• Pork is the meat of swine/pigs.
• Oryctolagus cuniculus is the scientific name for the rabbit.
• Kindling is the term for parturition in rabbits.
• Litter is a group of pigs born in one farrowing.
• Farrowing is the term for parturition in pigs.
• Litter size is the number of pigs in one litter.
• Chicken includes the terms Rooster or cock, Hen, Cockerel, Pullet, Straight run chicks, Broiler, Layer, Fryer, Incubation, Brooding, Oviposition, Threading, Caponization, Poulardization, Dubbing, Debeaking, Dewattling.
• Duck includes the terms Drake, Hen, Duckling, Goose, Gander, Hen, Gosling, Swan, Cob, Pen, Cygnet, Turkey, Cock, Hen, Poult, Pigeon, Squab, Guinea fowl, Dog, Butch, Bitch, Puppy, Whelping.
• Barrow is a castrated young male swine.
• Meconium is the first fecal matter of a newborn suckling rabbit.
• Colostrum is the first milk of the dam.
• Stag is a castrated matured male goat.
• Bunny is the young of either sex of a rabbit.