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Agriculture for Secondary Schools

Glossary

Acidosis Asset
a build-up of excessive acid in the an item or property (cash and cash
body fluids or tissues equivalent) owned by a person/farmer
Ascariasis or organisation which can be used for
infestation of the intestines with the payment of debts
roundworms Bellow

Acclimatisation characteristic sound produced by
the process of change or adjustment cows when on heat or hungry
by which an organism becomes better Biosecurity
suited to different conditions of life the hygiene and sanitation measures to

Ad libitum feeding be taken so as to prevent the spread of
prodiving feed to an animal all times. diseases to livestock
Adulteration Bloat
addition or removal of a component a swollen state of rumen and reticulum
in liquid or solid food, drug or caused by excessive accumulation of
chemical material that would lower gas, commonly occurs in ruminants
its nutritional or working quality that have been grazed on young, lush
Anaemia legumes or ingested large amounts of
a condition in which the number of concentrate rations
red blood cells or the haemoglobin Boar
concentration within them is lower a mature male pig usually kept for
than normal breeding
Anion Buck
an atom or a group of atoms, that is, a a male goat or rabbit
molecule which is negatively charged
Buffer solution
Anti-nutritional factors a solution containing an acid and a
are substances that when present
in animal feed or water reduce the base or salt, which tends to maintain a
availability of one or more nutrients constant hydrogen ion concentration

Anti-oxidant Buffer
a substance which slows down the rate to maintain a constant hydrogen
at which something decays because ion concentration. It also means a
of oxidisation, that is, combining chemical that keeps a liquid from
with oxygen becoming more or less acidic
Bull
uncastrated male cattle

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