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Agriculture for Secondary Schools


            Breed                                    Colostrum
               a group of animals that have similar     the  first  form  of  milk  produced  by
               appearance  and are related  to each     mammary glands in the first few days
               other through a common ancestry          following parturition

            Brucellosis                              Cull
               a contagious disease of livestock        selecting  and removing genetically
               which can also infect people,            undesirable,  inferior, diseased  or
               characterised with abortion. It is also   infested animals from a herd
               termed as bang’s disease in livestock
               and as undulant fever in human being   Condemnation
               because  of the intermittent fevers      the  process of discarding  all  non-
               accompanying the infection               wholesome meat

            Calcification                            Curdle
               the accumulation of calcium salt in a    a state of milk turning from liquid
               body tissue                              gradually  to solid, forming lumps
                                                        along the way
            Calf
               young cattle                          Dam
                                                        a female parent in animals especially
            Carcass
               the body of a livestock animal from      domesticated mammals such as cattle
               which the head, hide, legs, tail  and  Dark firm and dry meat
               viscera  or offal  have  been  removed   a carcass  quality condition occurred
               before rendering it into cuts of meat    mostly in cattle but also in other

            Cash book                                   ruminants’ meat from an animal
               a book in which receipts and payment     whose muscles have been depleted
               of money are recorded                    of glycogen reserves due to being
                                                        subjected to excessive stress before
            Cation                                      slaughter thus making the meat dark
               an atom or a group of atoms, that is, a   in colour, less fresh and undesirable to
               molecule which is positively charged
                                                        consumers
            Chevon
               goat meat                             Dressing percentage
                                                        the weight of a carcass expressed as
            Cock                                        a proportion of the live weight of the
               a male bird especially  of domestic      animal before slaughter, expressed as
               fowl                                     a percentage. It is equal to
            Colitis                                        Carcass weight
               an inflammation of the large intestine      Live weight     × 100
               (colon) which is characterised with
               diarrhoea or loose stools


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