ANIMAL SCIENCE

Introduction
Margie Lumanggaya-Bibat, MSA
Definition
The process through which livestock animals are
studied and understood.
It involves breeding, feeding, care and
management of animals; marketing and processing
of animals and their products based on knowledge
gained through practical experience and research.
Economic Utility derived
from animals
Food – chicken, ox, buffalo, swine, etc
Protection/Security/Guide
Power/Work – ox, buffalo, horses, dogs
Medicine - animal’s body secretions, fluid or glands
(Insulin, heparin, adrenaline, thyroxin, cod liver oil, musk,
beeswax, enzymes, and antitoxins sera)
Pets – dogs, cats, parrots and etc.
Economic Utility derived
from animals
Sports – dogs, birds, horse and etc.
Research
Clothing and aesthetic use – wool, leather, hair/fur,
feathers.
Others like musical instruments – gut strings are from
animal intestine.
Farm animals
Cattle (no humps) – Bos Taurus
Buffalo - Bubalus bubalis
Sheep - Ovis aries
Goat - Capra hircus
Pigs - Sus scrofa
Horse - Equus cabalus
Chicken - Gallus gallus
Farm animals
Mallard Duck - Anas platyrhnchos
Muscovy Duck - Cairina moschata
Goose - Anser domesticus
Turkey - Meleagris gallopavo
Pigeon - Columbia Ivia
Guinea fowl - Numida meleagris
COMMONLY USED
TERMS
Cattle and Carabao
Bull – male breeding ox of any age
Bull calf – young male calf under one year of age
Bullock – usually a stag for draft purposes
Calf – young ox of either sex, under one year of age
Cattle – domesticated bovine animals
Cow – mature female ox, one that has given birth
Cattle and Carabao
Carabull – carabao bull, caraheifer, caracow, etc.
Caracow – mature female carabao, one that has given
birth
Caraheifer – young female carabao under three years of
age usually one that has not yet given birth.
Cattle and Carabao
Heifer – young female ox under the age of three years,
usually one that has not yet given birth
Proven sire – bull about whom one have sufficient
unselected information to indicate his transmitting ability.
Ox – ruminant member of the bovine family, or
sometimes the male used for draft.
Cattle and Carabao
Stag – male ox castrated after sexual maturity
Steer – male ox castrated before sexual maturity
Horse
Broodmare – a female horse used for breeding purposes
Colt – young male horse usually up to the age of three years
Equitation – horsemanship; the art of riding on horseback
Filly – young female horse usually up to age three years old
Foal – young horse of either age below one year of age
Gelding – horse which was castrated while young
Mare – mature female horse
Horse
Ridgling – stallion with only one testis or none in its
scrotum
Stallion – mature male horse
Studhorse – a stallion used for breeding purposes
Yeld mare or dry mare – one which has not produced any
young during the breeding season
Swine
Boar – male pig of any age
Barrow – male pig which was castrated while young; a pig that
was castrated before the secondary sex characteristics have
developed
Gilt – young female pig under the one year of age, usually one
that has not yet given birth
Litter – group of pigs born in one farrowing
Litter size – the number of young pigs born in one furrowing
Swine
Shote – young pig either sex, weighing approximately 60
kg
Sow – mature female pig, one that has given birth
Stag – a male pig castrated after sexual maturity
Suckling – young pigs from birth up to weaning
Weaning – young pigs separated from the sow about 5
weeks old
Sheep and Goat
Billy goat or buck – male goat of any age
Doe – female goat of any age
Ewe – female sheep of any age
Fleece – wool covering the sheep
Kid – young sheep of either sex below one year of age
Lamb – young sheep of either sex below one year of age
Pelt – wool and skin of sheep
Sheep and Goat
Ram – male sheep of any age for breeding purposes
Shearling – yearling sheep with two teeth
Wether goat – male goat castrated before the
secondary sex characteristics have developed
Wether sheep – male sheep which was castrated while
young preferably between 1 to weeks of age
Poultry
Capon – a caponized male, readily distinguished by the
undeveloped comb and wattles
Chick – young chicken while in down stage
Chicken – one of the more common poultry species
different from turkey, geese etc.
Cockerel – a male fowl less than one year old
Drake – a male duck
Poultry
Duck – a female duck
Duckling – the young duck in down stage
Poult – the young of the domestic turkey, properly
applied until sex can be distinguished
Poultry – a collective term for all domestic birds
rendering economic service to man; can also refer to
dressed carcass of fowls
Poultry
Plumage – the feathers of fowl
Pullet – a female fowl less than one year old
Rooster – a male fowl one year old or over
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Thank
you