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• Artiodactyla


  Classification of animals where all even-toed ungulates belong
• Omnivore


  An organism that regularly consumes a variety of material, including plants, animals
• Herbivore


  An organism that feeds mostly on plants
• Carnivore


  An organism that mostly eats meat, or the flesh of animals, sometimes called predators
• Monogastric Animals


  Animal having only one stomach or a stomach with only one digestive chamber, generally unable to digest much cellulose food materials such as grasses
• Ruminant


  Animal whose stomach has four parts: rumen, reticulum, omasum, and abomasum. Includes cattle, sheep, goats, buffalo, deer and elk.
• Rumination


  During rest periods, cattle regurgitate (bring up) soft feed wads (cud) to re-chew and break into smaller pieces, re-salivate the feed and re-swallow it
• Cud


  The bolus (ball-like) regurgitated by ruminants containing fibers, other food particles, rumen liquor and microbial flora, for further chewing to make the feed easier for the microbes to digest
• Livestock


  Domestic farm animals that are kept and raised for productive purposes
• Poultry


  Collective term for all domestic avian species or the carcass of such avian dressed/processed for human consumption
• Waterfowl


  Any of the numerous species of wild or domestic large birds belonging to family Anatidae, sub-family Anserinae
• Mallard duck


  • Commonly known as "itik" and kept mainly for egg production
• Muscovy


  • Duck commonly known as "pato" used primarily for meat production and identified by its red knobby nodules along the eyes and above the base of the bill
• Plumage


  The entire feathery covering of a fowl/bird and the pattern, color, and arrangement of those feathers
• Downy stage


  Stage of newly hatched birds wherein the body is covered by hair-like silky, yellow feathers
• Cull


  Undesirable animal removed from the herd or flock; usually unproductive breeders
• Animal unit


  Common denominator for measuring animal feed requirements where one animal unit is equivalent to the feed requirement for a 1000 lb mature beef cow
• Feeder


  Animal that needs further feeding prior to slaughter, also a producer who feeds cattle
• Avian


  Of, relating to, or characteristic of birds, derived from birds
• Bovine


  An animal belonging to the family Bovidae with a compound stomach, includes the species Bos Taurus L. (cattle) or Bubalus bubalis L. (water buffalo), the Bison spp. (bison) and hybrids like Bos Taurus x Bison bison (beefalo)
• Caprine


  Of, relating to, or being a goat
• Equine


  Of, relating to, or resembling a horse or the horse family
• Ovine


  Of, relating to, or resembling sheep
• Porcine


  Of, relating to, or suggesting swine
• Leporine


  Of, relating to, or resembling a rabbit or hare
• Voice


  The peculiar sound of animals; with specific terms for each species of animals
• Voice of animals


  • Horses: neigh, whinny, nicker
  • Cows: moo, low
  • Bulls: bellow or bellows
  • Donkeys: bray
  • Pigs: grunt, snort, squeal
  • Goats: bleat
  • Guinea pigs: wheek or squeak
  • Rabbits: squeak or thump
  • Hens: cluck or cackle
  • Roosters: craw
  • Ducks: quack
  • Geese: honk, hiss
  • Turkeys: gobble
• Flock


  A group of animals (such as birds or sheep) assembled or herded together
• Groups of birds


  • In flight: flight
  • Game birds: Volary, brace, plump, knob
  • On the ground: Flock, dissimulation
  • Chickens in general: broad, peep
  • Chicks: Broad, clutch, chattering
• Groups of ducks


  • On the ground: Brace, Badling
  • On water: Raft, Team, Paddling
• Groups of geese


  • On the ground: gaggle, herd, corps
  • In flight: skein
• Groups of other birds


  • Guinea fowl: confusion
  • Mallard ducks in general: brace
  • Mallard ducks in flight: sord
  • Quails: covey, bevy
• Groups of animals


  • Asses: pace, herd, drove
  • Buffalo: herd, troop, gang, obstinacy
  • Camels: caravan, flock, train
  • Cattle: herd, drove, team
  • Cows: kine
  • Goats: herd, tribe, drove, flock, trip
  • Horses in general: stable, harras, team, troop
  • Horses belonging to one owner: stud
  • Colts: rag, rake
  • Ponies: string
  • Wild horses: herd
  • Mules: pack, span, barren, rake
  • Oxen: team, yoke, drove
  • Pigs in general: drift, drove
  • Boars: sounder, singular
  • Piglets: litter, farrow
  • Domestic rabbits: herd
  • Young rabbits: litter, nest
  • Sheep: drove, flock, down, hurtle, fold, pack, trip
• Type


  The purpose for which an animal is to be raised
• Breed


  Animals having a common origin and characteristics that distinguish them from other groups within the same species and uniformly transmitted to successive generations
• Variety


  A category used in the classification of plants and animals below the species level, consisting of a group of individuals that differ distinctly from but can interbreed with other varieties of the same species, with genetically inherited characteristics
• Strain


  A genetic variant, subtype or culture of a biological species, more popularly used in microbiology
• Animal breeding


  The art and science of mating animals for perpetuation of species and improvement of traits
• Dam owner


  In most breed associations, the owner of the dam at the time she was mated or bred to produce offspring
• Breeding animal


  An animal caused to produce offspring typically in a controlled and organized way