Livestock Terminology
- Barrow - a male hog castrated before it reaches sexual maturity
- Boar - an adult uncastrated male pig
- Bovine - the scientific name for cattle
- Broilers - chickens that are six to 13 weeks of age
- Bull - a sexually mature male (un-castrated) bovine
- Bullock – an adult castrated male of cow
- Buck - an adult, male rabbit or goat
- Bunny – immature young rabbit
- Calf - a sexually immature young bovine
- Calving – a process of giving birth in bovine
- Cavy - a particular breed of guinea pig
- Cow - a mature female bovine
- Doe - an adult, female rabbit or goat
- Ewe - a mature female sheep
- Farrowing –a process of giving birth in pigs
- Foaling – a process of giving birth in equines
- Gilt - a young female pig, An immature femal
- Heifer - a female bovine less than three years of age which has not borne a calf
- Hen - an adult female chicken or turkey
- Hog - a mature swine (usually weighing more than 120 pounds)
- Kid - a young goat
- Kidding – a process of giving birth in goat
- Kindling – a process of giving birth in rabbit
- Lactation – milk yielding period
- Lamb - a sheep less than one year in age
- Lambing – a process of giving birth in sheep
- Laying – a process of giving egg in poultry
- Livestock - domestic farm animals kept for productive purposes (meat, milk, work, wool)
- Market animal - livestock bred and produced for food consumption
- Pig - a young swine (usually weighing less than 120 lbs.)
- Polled - a naturally hornless animal
- Ratite - a species of bird consisting of rheas, ostriches and emus
- Rooster - an adult male chicken
- Ram/Buck- An uncastrated male sheep
- Sow - a mature female swine that has had a litter or has reached an advanced stage of pregnancy.
- Steer - a castrated male (within the first 6 months after birth) bovine
- Stag- cattle or swine castrated after reaching sexual maturity
- Swine - the scientific name for pigs and hog
- Vealer- a milk-fed calf (cattle) less than 3 months old.
- Wether - a castrated shortly after birth male sheep or goat
