Terminologies related to animal husbandry:
Breed: A breed is defined as a member of which have a common ancestry and possess similar morphological and economic characters that are inherited more or less firmly.
Silage: Silage is a succulent fodder prepared by partial anaerobic fermentation of green fodder in a container called silo. Nepalese traditional vegetables “Gundruk and sinki” are the best example of silage for human consumption. Silage can be prepared from thick stemmed crop like maize, teosinte, jowar etc.
Nymphomaniac or buller: A cow which apparently always in heat (estrus).
Cryptorchid: A male animal in which both the testicles or one of them fails to descend into the scrotal sac. This defect is a heritable characters and therefore cryptorchid animal should not be used for breeding.
Free-martin: When twin calves of different sex are born, the female calf is usually sterile, such heifers are known as free-martin. However mostly the bull is usually normal (fertile).
Drenching: If animal will not take medicine with their feed. It can be poured into the animal’s mouth with a bottle or drenching pipe or down a tube directly into the animal’s stomach called drenching.
Branding: It is the method of marking on cattle and buffaloes by the use of branching rod. It can be done by the use or hot iron or cold iron dip in liquid N2.
Steaming-up: Feeding of nutrient ration to pregnant heifer called steaming-up. It helps in their growth, growth of unborn fetus, bear stress, producing more milk after birth, increase lactation length.
Weaning: Weaning is the practice of separation of young from their dam. In case of goat weaning could be done when kids multiplied their birth weight by 2.5, or weaning could be done at late as 4 month.
Docking: The process of removing the fail of sheep to facilitate excretion, to prevent dirt and faces accumulating on tail is called docking.
Flushing: After weaning the kids, dry does could be feel according to their body condition, doe should provide to ribbing plane of balanced ration (nutrition) referred as flushing. This is the preparation for mating and pregnancy. Flushing stimulates the number of ova released thus increasing the chances for more ova/eggs to be fertilized resulting higher kidding percentage.
Dehorning: This is the process by which the horns of an animals are removed by treating the tender horn roots with the chemical, mechanical or electrical dehorner is called dehorning.
Grooming: It comprises brushing the hair roots of an animals. It is performed for cleanliness of appearances, massages and stimulates the cutaneous blood and lymph circulation, removes wastes product like loose hairs, skin secretion, removes skin parasites from hair coat.
Dipping: Dipping is the bathing or swimming of an animals in dip solution or chemical solution. It is important means of tick control in sheep, goat. Purpose of dipping is to eradicate ectoparasites to prevent spread of sheep scab, to remove waste materials and drug from fleece and to get clan wool.
Debeaking: Trimming of the beak involving removal of upper one third to one half of mandible in growing and mature birds or removing of beak from the poultry birds known as debeaking. It control cannibalism, control feather picking, breaking of eggs etc.
Dusting: It is the most convenient application of dusting powders containing parasiticides used to control fleas and lice on animal body. They may also be used for an antiseptic.
Shearing: Shearing is removing of wool used from sheep easily, quickly and completely with the minimum discomfort called shearing.
Castration: Castration is the removing of testes or make unable to produce germ cell. The male individuals not required for breeding are castrated with the help of burdizzo castrator or rubber band at an early age before reaching puberty.
Primiparous: Female who has burn but one child or who is parturient for the first time or giving or having given birth for the first time is called primiparaos