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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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