Animal TERMS AND THEIR PROPER USAGE

What is a capon? What is a lambkin? Here is a list of terms that will help you better empathize the words commonly used by breeders and fanciers when discussing the various species.

Livestock are animals kept past people for apply or pleasance.

  • Bovine is a term relating to cattle.
  • Caprine is a term relating to goats.
  • Equine is a term relating to horses, mules, zebras, and asses.
  • Herd is a group of a single species of livestock. At that place may be exceptions to the term's usage outside of cattle, horses, asses, swine, and rabbits.
  • Ovine is a term relating to sheep.
  • Porcine is a term relating to swine.

Ass is a single hoofed mammal of the genus Equus, related to the horses. They typically have a smaller build and longer ears.

  • Ass is the correct term used for a ass, burro, or jackstock.
  • Burro is the Spanish term used for ass (by and large used west of the Mississippi)
  • A donkey is the domesticated form of an ass.
  • A hinny is a hybrid brute that is produced when a female donkey (jennet) is crossed with a male horse (stallion).
  • Horse hinny is the proper term for a male person hinny over three years of historic period.
  • Equus caballus mule is the proper term for a male mule over iii years of age.
  • Jack is a male donkey. (Notation – young jacks are non referred to as colts)
  • Jackstock is the plural referring to American Mammoth jacks and jennets. These animals are properly termed asses and are not referred to as donkeys, and never called burros.
  • Jennet or jenny is a female ass. (Note – a young jennet or jenny is not referred to as a filly)
  • Jennet jack a male person ass used to produce donkeys.
  • John is an informal term for a male mule.
  • Mule is a hybrid animal that is produced when a male person ass (jack) is crossed with a female horse (mare).
  • Mule colts (males) and mule fillies (females) are young mules under 3 years of age.
  • Mule jack is a male person ass used to produce mules.
  • Mare hinny is the proper term for a female hinny over iii years of age.
  • Mare mule is the proper term for a female mule over three years of age.
  • Molly is an informal term for a female person mule.

Cattle domesticated mammals of the genus Bos.

  • Balderdash is an in-tact male bovine.
  • Bull calf is a male calf.
  • Calf is a young bovine. This term is used from the time of nativity up until about 6 to ten months of age when the beast is weaned.
  • Cow is a female bovine that has had a dogie. (This term may also exist used for other species)
  • Heifer is a female bovine that has not had a dogie.
  • Heifer calf is a female calf.
  • Steer is a castrated male person bovine or tin be a time to come ox that is less than 4 years one-time.
  • Ox is castrated bull that has been trained to work and is at least four years of historic period.
  • Oxen is the plural of ox.

Goat the domesticated class of capra hircus.

  • Buck is a male person goat over one year of age.
  • Buckling is a young male goat less than a year quondam.
  • Doe is a female goat over i twelvemonth of age.
  • Doeling is a young female caprine animal less than a yr old.
  • Flock is a grouping of goats. (The term may be used in reference to other livestock.)
  • Kid is a baby goat of either sexual practice.
  • Wether is a castrated male goat (or sheep).

Horse is a domesticated large single hoofed mammal (Equus caballus) with a short-haired coat, a long mane, and a long tail used for riding, pulling, or conveying loads.

  • Filly is a male person horse under iii years of age.
  • Filly is a female equus caballus under 3 years of age.
  • Foal is a young equine nether 1 year of age.
  • Gelding is a castrated male person horse.
  • Mare is a female horse afterwards her fourth altogether.
  • Stallion is an intact male equus caballus.

Rabbit is a mammal of the family Leporidae or the domesticated Old Earth species Oryctolagus cuniculus.

  • Cadet is a male rabbit.
  • Doe is a female rabbit.
  • Fryer or "young rabbit" is a rabbit that is ii months old and weighs 3 ¾ lbs to 4 ½ lbs.
  • Kit is a babe rabbit.
  • Rabbitry is where owners keep their herd of rabbits in split cages.
  • Stewer or "mature rabbit" is a rabbit 3 months of historic period or older averaging 6 pounds or more.
  • Warren is where owners keep their herd of rabbits as a group in a large cage or enclosure.

Sheep the domesticated species ovis aries.

  • Ewe is a female person sheep at least 1 yr of age.
  • Ewe lamb is a female sheep nether i year of age.
  • Flock is a group of sheep. (The term may be used in reference to other livestock.)
  • Lamb is a immature sheep. When referring to meat, lamb is meat from a sheep that is 12-xiv months old or less.
  • Lambkin or lambling is a newly built-in lamb.
  • Ram is an intact male sheep that is at least one year of historic period.
  • Ram lamb is a male sheep that is under ane year of age.
  • Sheep is a mature ovine at to the lowest degree i year of age and may also refer to the ovine species.
  • Wether is a castrated male sheep (or goat).

Swine are fifty-fifty-toed ungulates of the family unit Suidae, including pigs, hogs, and boars.

  • Barrow is a castrated (before sexual maturity) male swine.
  • Boar is an adult male swine.
  • Gilt is a female swine that has non given nativity.
  • Collection is a group of swine.
  • Feeder pig is a young pig, virtually frequently between forty-70lbs that is produced by i farmer and sold to another for growing out to marketplace weight.
  • Grunter is a mature swine with an adult weight above 150 pounds.
  • Lard types of grunter were developed to have big deposits of fatty that could exist more than easily butchered from the animal in large chunks. This makes rendering easier and results in less loss of good meat.
  • Market hog is a grunter that weighs from 220-260 pounds and is 5-vii months of historic period when information technology is sent to market.
  • Meat types of hog (also known as Salary types) were developed to accept more lean meat with moderate marbling of fat.
  • Pig is a young swine that is not sexually mature or a mature swine with an adult weight nether 150 pounds.
  • Piglet or baby grunter refers to a young pig in its get-go 14-21 days of life and is still nursing.
  • Shoat is a immature grunter (non sexually mature) that has been weaned and is set for market weighing 150-260 pounds
  • Sow is an adult female person swine.
  • Stag is a castrated (later on sexual maturity) male person swine.

Poultry are domesticated birds that are kept for meat or eggs including birds of the order Galliformes: chicken, turkey, natatorial (swimming) birds: duck and goose.

  • Flock is a group comprised of one species of poultry.
  • Trio is typically a group of poultry with one male and two females

Craven is a common domestic fowl (Gallus domesticus).

  • Broiler is a meat chicken processed at the age of seven-12 weeks when information technology reaches 2 ½ to 3 ½ pounds live weight.
  • Fryer is a meat chicken usually marketed at 12-20 weeks.
  • Capon are male chickens that have been castrated and they are harvested at 4-viii months sometime. They weigh five-9 pounds and produce more white meat and have higher fat content than other chickens.
  • Chick is a newly hatched or a very young craven.
  • Erect is a male person chicken at to the lowest degree ane year of historic period or older.
  • Cockerel is a male craven less than one year quondam.
  • Cornish game hens are a cross betwixt a Cornish and Plymouth Rock chicken (although originally they were pure Cornish), iv-5 weeks old, weighing about two pounds. They may exist of either sex.
  • Hen is a female craven at least one year of age.
  • Poussin or "leap craven" is a young chicken, three-4 weeks old, weighing about 1 pound that is prepared equally a single serving.
  • Pullet is a female person chicken less than one twelvemonth of age. A pullet is, in industry, a young female that has nevertheless to start laying eggs
  • Roasters are chickens that are half-dozen-12 months of age weighing 4-7 pounds.
  • Rooster is a male chicken over one twelvemonth of historic period.
  • Stewing fowl is a mature male person or female craven over one yr of historic period.

Ducks are whatsoever wild or domesticated pond birds of the family Anatidae, typically having a broad, flat bill, short legs, and webbed anxiety.

  • Drake is an developed male person duck.
  • Duck can refer to a female person of the duck family unit.
  • Ducklings are baby ducks.
  • Old drake is a male duck over 1 year of age.
  • Old duck is a female duck over 1 twelvemonth of historic period.
  • Young drake is a male duck nether i year of age.
  • Young duck is a female duck under ane year of historic period.

Geese are wild or domesticated water birds of the family Anatidae and of the genera Anser and Branta that typically have a shorter neck than a swan and a shorter, more than pointed beak than a duck.

  • Gander is a male goose over 1 year of age. (As well referred to as sometime gander.)
  • Goose is the singular of geese or a female person goose.
  • Gosling is a immature goose up until feathers have replaced all of their down.
  • Onetime goose is a female goose over 1 twelvemonth of age.
  • Young gander is a male person goose under 1 year of age.
  • Young goose is a female goose nether 1 year of historic period.

Turkey is a big North American bird (Meleagris gallopavo) that is widely domesticated for food and comes in many varieties.

  • Hen is a female turkey over one year of age.
  • Old hen is a female person turkey over one yr of historic period.
  • Old tom is a male turkey over 1 yr of age.
  • Poult is a young domestic (not wild) turkey.
  • Tom is a male turkey.
  • Young hen is a female turkey nether ane year of age.
  • Young tom is a male turkey under 1 year of age.