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Livestock

Livestock. Weeks 10, 11, 12, 13 & 14. Pre- test. Name as many Livestock animals as you can? What is the Latin name for Cattle? What is the Latin name for Horses? What part of the animal do people eat? Name one cattle disease?. Define Livestock.

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Livestock

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  1. Livestock Weeks 10, 11, 12, 13 & 14

  2. Pre- test • Name as many Livestock animals as you can? • What is the Latin name for Cattle? • What is the Latin name for Horses? • What part of the animal do people eat? • Name one cattle disease?

  3. Define Livestock • animals kept for sale: animals raised for food or other products, or kept for use, especially farm animals such as meat and dairy cattle, horses, pigs, sheep, goats and poultry

  4. Latin animal names • Domestic Duck Anasplatyrhyncha • Domestic Chicken Gallus domesticus • Horse Equuscaballus • European Cattle Breeds Bostaurus • Tropical Cattle Breeds Bosindicus • Domestic Sheep Ovisaries • Domestic Goat Capra hircus • Domestic Swine Susscrofa • Domestic Rabbit Oryctolaguscuniculus

  5. Livestock Diseases • Zoonotic Disease - refers to diseases that can be passed from animals, whether wild or domesticated, to humans. • Your assignment is to get one of the diseases on the sheet and make a poster for the disease.

  6. Anthrax • Bacillus anthracis • Cattle, sheep, goats, horses, wild herbivorous animals • Worldwide; common in Africa, Asia, South America, eastern Europe • Occupational exposure; food-borne in Africa, Russia, and Asia; occasionally wounds or insect bites; rarely airborne

  7. Anthrax

  8. Top 5 Beef Breeds • Angus • Hereford • Gelbvieh • Limousin • Simmental

  9. Angus Red Angus Color comes from double recessive gene for color Black Angus No heat tolerance Great Muscles and Marbling

  10. Hereford Polled Hereford Naturally horn less Docile Great Meat Hereford Natural has horns (males and females) Docile (gentle) Great meat

  11. Gelbvieh (Gelp –fee) Fast Growth Muscling Quiet temperament Marketable

  12. Limousin Great Muscle Yellow around eye and muzzle Large animals

  13. Simmental Heritable Great Mothers Thick with heavier musculature

  14. Dairy Cattle • Aryshire • Brown Swiss • Guernsey • Holstein • Jersey

  15. Aryshire • Originated in Scotland • Originally known as the Dunlop • Color: red and white • Good feet and legs, • Excels in udder conformation • Medium-sized frame

  16. Brown Swiss • Originated in Switzerland • Because of foot and mouth disease, only 3 have been imported since 1906 • Good temperament and strong feet and legs • Color: gray or light brown to dark brown

  17. Guernsey • Originated from the Isle of Guernsey • Known for high quality (high fat and protein content) milk while consuming less feed • Intermediate frame

  18. Holstein • Originated in Netherlands • Large frame • Color: black and white or red and white • Known for outstanding milk production

  19. Jersey • Originated from the Isle of Jersey (small British isle) • Color: very light gray to dark brown or almost black • Known for high milk fat • Wide-range of body weight; typically smaller-framed

  20. Swine Breeds • Berkshire • Duroc • Hampshire • Poland China • Yorkshire

  21. Objective • Know the five main swine breeds of the US • Be able to describe what they look like • Tell where they are from • Be able to tell what type they are

  22. Berkshire • England • US breed in 1875 • Meat Type • Black body with six white points • Erect Ears

  23. Duroc • USA • US breed 1957 • Meat Type • Gold to dark Red, Droopy Ears

  24. Hampshire • USA • US breed1893 • Meat Type • Black with white belt around body and front leg, erect ears

  25. Poland China • USA • US breed 1876 • Meat Type • Black, Six white points, droopy ears

  26. Yorkshire • England • US breed 1935 • Mother Type • White, erect ears

  27. Sheep • Sheep are classified by body covering • Fine wool – Merino (100%) • Medium wool – ¼, 3/8 & ½ blood • Long wood – coarse, strong, luster (grows 12”/year) • Carpet wool – lowest quality • Hair – straight, non-elastic & glossy

  28. Fine wool Merino Rambouillet

  29. Medium wool (meat) Suffolk Dorset

  30. Long wool Leicester Long wool Lincoln Long wool

  31. Carpet wool breeds Elliottdale Romney

  32. Hair wool Pelibuey Barbados

  33. Goat Breeds • Dairy – milk, cheese, soap • Meat – eaten worldwide • Brush cleanup • Pack – hikes • Fiber – Mohair/Angora/Cashmere

  34. Dairy NIGERIAN DWARF NUBIAN

  35. Meat French Alpine La Mancha

  36. Brush Clean up ½ Nubian & ½ Alpine

  37. Pack

  38. Fiber (Mohair/Angora/Cashmere)

  39. Poultry

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