Texas FFA Livestock Judging Test questions with correct answers

The sudden death of heavily muscled hogs is referred to as: Answer Porcine Stress Syndrome A swine nutritional health problem caused by lack of iron in the diet. Answer Anemia Which vitamin do animals tend to produce enough of so that it does not need to be included as a specific nutrient in their rations? Answer Vitamin C The removal of the testicles from a male animal Answer Castration Which species of livestock reaches puberty based on the season and not age? Answer Goats The process of placing sperm in the female reproductive tract by some other means than natural mating is known as: Answer artificial insemination The first breed of beef cattle imported to the United States in the late 1700's was the: Answer Shorthorn A measure of the degree of difference between the offspring of a specific bull and the offspring of the average bull of the breed in the trait being m