BASC

• Technology's role in 21st century making safe, affordable and abundant food a global reality
• In the year 2050, the world population will require 100% more food and 70% of this food should come from efficiency-improving technology
• Global challenges

  • Increasing human population
  • Reduction of areas for agricultural production
  • Increasing challenge to produce more animal food products
• Attributes of animals that enhances the ability of an agricultural system to produce food for human

  • Animal can feed on and convert plants and other material which could have otherwise gone to waste, into rich human food
  • Animal products have chemical composition that closely resemble man's dietary requirement and therefore more digestible and nutritious
• Other non-food products from animals

  • Glue from horns
  • Fertilizer and fuel from feces
  • Feeds from bones and offal's (internal organs of an animal used as food)
• Order and Family of Livestock

  • Horse - Perrissodactyla, Equidae
  • Cattle - Artiodactyla, Bovidae
  • Carabao - Artiodactyla, Bovidae
  • Goat - Artiodactyla, Bovidae
  • Sheep - Artiodactyla, Bovidae
  • Swine - Artiodactyla, Suidae
  • Rabbit - Lagomorpha, Liporidae
• Cattle, Horses and Sheep are graze animals (not picky eater). Goats on the other hand are picky eaters.
• Pen


  Cage or kulungan
• DOC

  • Day OLD chicks
• Dubbing


  removal of combs to prevent damage and freezing
• Sometimes chicken are cannibals
• Veal


  Calf meat, more expensive than beef.
• Horse terminology


  • Stallion - matured male horse for breeding and for work
  • Mare - matured female
  • Colt - young male
  • Filly - young female
  • Gelding - castrated young male
  • Ridgling - a stallion with one or both testes can't be descend to scrotal sac
  • Foal - young horse of either sex
  • Foaling - parturition in horse
  • Yeldmare - dry mare
  • Stag - castrated mature male
• Cattle terminology

  • Bull - matured male
  • Cow - matured female
  • Bull calf - young male
  • Heifer - young female
  • Steer or bullock - castrated young male
  • Free martin - a sterile female ox is born twin to a male ox
  • Calf - young cattle of either sex (baby cow)
  • Calving - parturition in cattle
  • Beef - meat of matured cattle
  • Veal - meat of young cattle
• Carabao terminology

  • Carabull - matured male
  • Caracow - matured female
  • Caraheifer - young female
  • Carasteer - castrated young male
  • Caracalf - young carabao of either sex
  • Caracalving - parturition in carabao
  • Carabeef - meat of matured carabao
  • Caraveal - meat of young carabao
• Sheep terminology

  • Ram - matured male
  • Ewe - matured female
  • Lamb - young of either sex
  • Lambing - parturition
  • Wether sheep - castrated young male
  • Stag - castrated mature male
  • Wool - hair covering of sheep
  • Shearing - clipping of fleece
  • Lambchop - meat of young
  • Mutton - meat of matured sheep
• Urition


  Urination in horse
• Yeldmare


  Dry mare
• Stag


  Castrated mature male
• Calving


  Parturition in cattle
• Beef


  Meat of matured cattle
• Veal


  Meat of young cattle
• Caracalving


  Parturition in carabao
• Carabeef


  Meat of matured carabao
• Caraveal


  Meat of young carabao
• Wool


  Hair covering of sheep
• Shearing


  Clipping of fleece
• Lambchop


  Meat of young sheep
• Mutton


  Meat of matured sheep
• Goat

  • Buck or billy goat - matured male
  • Doe or nanny goat - matured female
  • Kid - young of either sex
  • Wether - castrated young male
  • Stag - castrated matured male
  • Chevon - meat of goat
  • Browse plant - shrubs or trees nibbled by goats
  • Tethering - Restraining an animal with a rope or chain
• Browse plants


  Shrubs or tree nibble by goats
• Tethering


  Restraining animal with a rope or chain
• Swine

  • Boar - matured male for breeding
  • Junior boat - young male
  • Sow - matured female that has given birth
  • Gilt - young female and has not given birth yet
  • Suckling - young pig from birth up to weaning
  • Barrow - castrated young male
  • Stag - castrated mature male
  • Farrowing - parturition of pigs
  • Pork - meat
• Pork

  Meat of the pig
• Litter

  Group of pigs born in one farrowing
• Litter size

  The number of pigs in one litter
• Colostrum


  First milk of dam (pigs)
• The pigglets should drink the colostrum 24 hours after birth because if they didn't, they will die
• Meconium


  First fecal matter of newborn suckling
• Rabbit


  • Buck - matured male
  • Doe - matured female
  • Bunny - young of either sex
  • Kindling - parturition or rabbit
  • Lapan - meat of rabbit
  • Hutch - Shelter of rabbits