Basic Livestock Terminology

What is the name for a young goat?

• calf
• kid
• piglet
• chick

What is the name for a mature male cattle

• bull
• steer
• cow
• boar

What is a mature female chicken?

• rooster
• chick
• hen
• pullet

Mature female swine

• sow
• gilt
• boar
• barrow

mature female sheep

• wether
• sow
• ewe
• lamb

What type of agricultural product comes from swine?

• beef
• mutton
• pork
• chicken

What type of agricultural product comes from cattle?

• beef
• muttton
• pork
• chicken

Process of giving birth in sheep

• Sheeping
• Lambing
• Calving
• Farrowing

Process of giving birth in cattle

• Calving
• Farrowing
• Foaling
• Laying

Process of giving birth in Swine

• Farrowing
• Foaling
• Calving
• Lambing