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Agriculture for Secondary Schools

Prolific Scarce
producing many offspring regularly. It insufficient to satisfy the need or
also refers to producing a great number demand
or amount of something regularly Scour
Prophylaxis an infection of the intestinal tract
a preventive measure designed to characterised by watery stools that
treat an animal against disease may be brown, grey, green or yellow
Puberty in colour and sometimes mixed up with
the age at which male and female blood or mucus. It is another term for
gonads become capable of producing diarrhoea
reproduction cells (gametes) Secchi disc

Ranching a black and white, circular disc which
an expansive system of raising is lowered into the water in a pond
livestock mainly through grazing until it can no longer be seen by the
observer. The depth of disappearance
Range is called Secchi depth and it is a
land or field for animals to feed on. It measure of the transparency of the
also called range land
water
Regurgitation Silo
a process by which ruminants bring a pit in the ground, a bunker, a tower,
back feed materials from the rumen an air tight-covered heap or wrapped
to the mouth for grinding into finer bale where silage is made and stored.
particles
It also mean a large round tower on a
Roost farm for storing grains
a place where birds regularly settle or Skin
congregate to rest
the natural outer layer which covers
Satiation small animals such as goat, sheep, pig,
full satisfaction of desire or need rabbit and fish
Severe Slaughter
the killing of animals for meat. It also to kill an animal for meat
mean very serious or causing very Soil colloids
great pain, difficulty or damage
the smallest sized particles in the soil
Scalding in poultry (usually clay and organic matter), being
the process of immersing the birds also considered as the most chemically
in warm or hot water to loosen the active portion of the soil because of
feathers from the follicle so as to aid their large surface area which attracts
their removal nutrient elements dissolved in the soil

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