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altricial: An animal born in a helpless state, depending on it's parents for support and protection. For example, kittens are born blind and helpless, depending on their mother for everything.
bag: Slang for udder.
bagged up: When the udder fills with milk.
barrow: A castrated pig.
billy: Slang for a male goat, also known as a buck.
bleat: The sound a goat "maa" or sheep "baa" makes.
boar: A mature male pig.
bray: The call a donkey makes.
breed: (v) To mate and produce offspring. (n) A type of animal that has specific characteristics.
browse: (v) The act of eating trees and shrubs. (n) Trees and shrubs.
browsers: Animals that eat trees and shrubs.
buck: An adult male goat, rabbit, and deer, to name a few.
buckling: A male goat less than one year old.
bunny: A baby rabbit, also known as a kit.
calf: A young cattle.
capon: A young castrated chicken.
castrated: Remove the testicles of a male animal to prevent it from producing offspring. Also known as neutered.
cattle: The correct term for what we commonly refer to as "cows". However, cows are female cattle.
chick: A young chicken.
cob: An adult male swan. A small horse referring to body size not a particular breed.
cockeral: A young male chicken under the age of one year.
colt: A male horse under the age of four years old that has not produced a foal.
cough pellet: Birds of prey eat their kill whole. The raptor then regurgitates a pellet containing fur, bones, teeth, claws, and anything else that can not be digested by the bird of prey.
cow: An adult female cattle.
crepuscular: Active during dawn and dusk.
crop: A pouch at the base of the bird's neck that stores food, a "storage bin". Small amounts of food are released from the crop to the stomach. This allows the bird to gather lots of food at one time then to get out of harms way from predators.
crossbreed: An animal who is the offspring of two different breeds.
cud: Food that is regurgitated from the first chamber of the stomach, known as the rumen, and re-chewed.
cygnet: A young swan.
doe: The name given to an adult female goat, rabbit, and deer, to name a few.
doeling: A female goat less than one year old.
dominant animal: The leader of a group of animals.
diurnal: Active during the day.
drake: An adult male duck.
duckling: A young duck under one year old.
ewe: A mature female sheep.
feces: Also known as manure, scat or poop.
flehmen response: When an animal lip curls usually in response to a female in estrus (heat).
filly: A young female horse under the age of four years old that has not produced a foal.
fledge: When a young bird is learning to fly and leaves the nest.
fledgling: A name given to the bird that is learning to fly and leaving the nest.
flock: A group of animals that live together such as sheep, chickens, and ducks, to name a few.
foal: A young horse.
free choice: Food or minerals that are available at all times.
free range: To allow chickens to run loose so they can forage for food.
gander: A mature male goose.
gelding: A castrated horse.
gilt: A female pig that has not had a litter.
gosling: A young goose.
graze: Eating grass.
grazers: Animals that eat grass.
hatch: The process of the chicken coming out of the egg.
hatchling: A bird that has just hatched.
hen: A mature female chicken, duck, and turkey, to name a few.
heifer: A young cow that has not produced a calf.
herbivore: An animal that eats plants.
herd: A group of animals that live together such as goats, horses, cattle and pigs.
intact: A male animal that retains it's testicles. An animal that has not been castrated.
kid: A goat under the age of one year old.
kit: A baby rabbit, also known as a bunny.
lamb: A young sheep.
litter: Collectively the offspring from a single birth.
low: The "moo" sound that cattle make.
manure: feces, dung, poop, scat to name a few.
mare: A mature female horse.
mature: Old enough to reproduce.
molt: To shed feathers.
mule: A cross between a horse and a donkey.
neuter: Remove the testicles of a male animal to prevent it from producing offspring. Also known as castrate.
nestling: A young bird usually less than three weeks old that has not learned to fly and is living in the nest.
nocturnal: Active at night.
offspring: The product of two animals that have successfully bred and reproduced.
pecking order: The ranks that chickens establish to determine which one is the boss then which on ranks second, third, and so one.
peep: A baby chicken, also known as a chick.
pen: A mature female swan.
piglet: A young pig.
precocial: An animal that is hatched or born in an advanced state of developement, allowing it to move around independently within a few hours. For example a duck can walk and swim immediately after hatching and horses can stand and move with the herd soon after birth.
predator: An animal that hunts another animal for food.
prey: An animal that is hunted by a predator.
ram: An mature male sheep.
raptor: Also known as bird of prey.
reproduce: A male and female that has successfully bred and had offspring.
roost: A place where chickens spend the night usually up in a tree. Also known as a perch.
rooster: An adult male chicken.
root: A pig digging in the dirt with it's snout (nose), looking for insects to eat.
ruminant: An animal that has a four chamber stomach and chews a cud.
rut: Mature male goats, sheep and deer to name a few go into rut. Simply put it is when the male is focused on breeding, fighting other males for breeding privledges, food is secondary to the drive to reproduce.
set: To keep eggs warm so they will hatch. After the hens lay the eggs they set on them.
shear: To remove the wool or hair from an animal. This does not harm the animal.
sow: An adult female pig that has produced at least one litter.
stallion: An mature male horse or pony.
steer: A castrated cattle.
teats: The fingerlike protrusions on the bottom of the udder.
territorial: When an animal is protective of its home range or territory in which that animal lives.
testicles: Glands in a male animal that produce the sperm which makes it possible to reproduce.
tom: A mature male turkey.
udder: The milk producing glands.
vent: The opening in birds and poultry that emits the eggs.
wean: To seperate a nursing animal from it's mother, or stop feeding milk.
wether: A castrated goat or sheep.
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