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Pork Information Gateway: Glossary

Last Updated: January 31, 2007

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  • ADG
  • AI
  • AI-AO
  • Abattoir
  • Abortion
  • Acuracy of selection
  • Ad libitum feeding
  • Age at slaughter
  • Age at weaning
  • Agronomy
  • Amino acid
  • Anestrous
  • Animal welfare
  • Antibiotic
  • Antibody
  • Antimicrobial
  • Appetite
  • Aquifer
  • Arrival date
  • Artifical insemination (AI)
  • Assets, current
  • Assets, fixed
  • Atrophied piglets
  • Aujeszky's disease
  • Availability of breeding stock
  • Availability of nutrients
  • Average
  • Average daily gain
  • Average, weighted
  • Back Pressure Test
  • Backcross
  • Backfat
  • Baconer
  • Balanced diet
  • Bandwidth
  • Barrow
  • Basal metabolism
  • Belly
  • Biosecurity program
  • Birth litter
  • Birth weight
  • Blastocyst
  • Boar taint
  • Boar, breeding
  • Boar, replacement
  • Boar, unworked
  • Boar, vasectomised
  • Boar, working
  • Boston butt
  • Breeder
  • Breeding female day
  • Breeding herd
  • Breeding program goals
  • Breeding value
  • CFM
  • Calcium (CA)
  • Carcass
  • Carcass index
  • Carcass merit
  • Carcass yield
  • Carrier
  • Case ready
  • Casualty slaughter
  • Cecum
  • Central test
  • Chromosome
  • Clinical signs
  • Cold storage
  • Colibacillosis
  • Collateral relatives
  • Colon
  • Commerical Herd
  • Conceive
  • Conception
  • Conception rate
  • Condemnation
  • Condition scoring
  • Congenital
  • Congenital defect
  • Conservation plan
  • Consumption
  • Contemporary group
  • Contract production
  • Controlled feeding
  • Conventional buildings
  • Corpus albicantia
  • Corpus leuteum
  • Correlated genetic response
  • Correlation
  • Creep feed
  • Criss-cross
  • Critical temperature, maximum
  • Critical temperature, minimum
  • Cross Foster
  • Crossbred
  • Crossbreeding
  • Crude Protein
  • Cull
  • Cull rate
  • Culling percentage, females
  • Culling percentage, sows
  • Cut-out
  • Cutter
  • Cycle
  • Cytoplasm
  • Cytoplasmic droplet
  • DNA
  • Daily live weight gain
  • Dam
  • Dam line
  • Days to market
  • Death percentage, females
  • Death percentage, sows
  • Demand
  • Depopulation/Repopulation
  • Deviation
  • Diamond skin disease
  • Didi boar
  • Diet
  • Differential
  • Digestibility
  • Dominance
  • Double mating
  • Down time
  • Dressing percentage
  • Dry matter
  • Duodenum
  • EDEMA disease
  • ELISA
  • Economic value
  • Effluent
  • Emaciated
  • Embryo
  • Empty days
  • Endemic
  • Endogenous prostaglandins
  • Energy-digestible
  • Energy-metabolized
  • Energy-net
  • Enteritis
  • Entry date
  • Entry date (200-d-old rule)
  • Entry date (25-d arrival rule)
  • Environment
  • Enzootic pneumonia
  • Estimated breeding value (EBV)
  • Estradiol
  • Estrous
  • Estrous Cycle
  • Estrus
  • Event date
  • Exogenous prostaglandins
  • Expected progeny difference (EPD)
  • Exposure
  • F1
  • F2 generation
  • FPM
  • Farrow
  • Farrow to finish operation
  • Farrowing
  • Farrowing crate
  • Farrowing date
  • Farrowing index
  • Farrowing interval
  • Farrowing rate
  • Farrowing rate, adjusted
  • Farrowing, failure
  • Feed
  • Feed consumed/yr-total
  • Feed conversion ratio
  • Feed efficiency
  • Feed intake/d
  • Feed wastage
  • Feeder pig
  • Feeder pig operation
  • Female herd
  • Female herd turnover rate percentage
  • Female, breeding
  • Female-to-boar ratio
  • Fetus
  • Finish
  • Finisher
  • Finishing operation
  • First cross (F1 or F1 cross)
  • First litter sow
  • Fixed cross
  • Flat deck
  • Floor feed
  • Follicles
  • Fostering
  • Full feeding
  • Full siblings
  • Gastroenteritis
  • Gene
  • Generation interval
  • Genetic correlation
  • Genetic lag
  • Genetic level
  • Genetic marker
  • Genetic status
  • Genotype
  • Genotype-environment interaction
  • Gestation length
  • Gilt
  • Gilt pool
  • Gilt replacement rate percentage
  • Glasser's disease
  • Grandparent
  • Greasy pig disease
  • Great-grandparent
  • Grower pig
  • Growth promoters
  • Growth rate
  • Haemophilus Pneumonia
  • Half-siblings
  • Half-sibs
  • Half-sibs, maternal
  • Half-sibs, paternal
  • Ham
  • Hand breeding
  • Hand mating
  • Heat period
  • Heavy hogs
  • Hedging gain or loss
  • Herd size, female
  • Herd size, sow
  • Heredity
  • Heritability
  • Heterosis
  • Heterzygous
  • Hog
  • Homozygous
  • Hoop structure
  • Hormones
  • Hybrid vigor
  • Hysterectomy
  • Ileum
  • Immunity
  • Immunization
  • Inbreeding
  • Independent culling levels
  • Indexing
  • Induction of farrowing
  • Insemination
  • Intact pigs
  • Intensity of selection
  • Interference level
  • Isowean
  • Jejunem
  • Joule (J)
  • Kcal
  • Killing-out percentage
  • Kilocalorie
  • Kilogram
  • Labor and fringe benefits
  • Lactating
  • Lactation
  • Lactation length
  • Lactogenic Immunity
  • Lagoon
  • Lairage
  • Lairage death
  • Late foster sow
  • Leak
  • Leaving date
  • Leucine
  • Libido
  • Line breeding
  • Linecross
  • Linoleic acid
  • Litter
  • Litter birth weight
  • Litter scatter graph
  • Litter weaning weight
  • Litter weight, adjusted 21-d (LWT)
  • Litters farrowed per crate per year
  • Litters per mated female per year
  • Litters pre female per year
  • Live births per female per year
  • Live births per sow per year
  • Live birthweight, average
  • Live weight
  • Live-births/litter
  • Live-born piglets
  • Locus
  • Loin
  • Loin muscle area
  • Losses
  • Losses, causes post-weaning
  • Losses, causes preweaning
  • Luteinization
  • Luteinizing hormone (LH)
  • Lysine
  • MD
  • MEW
  • MMA
  • MMEW
  • Maiden gilt
  • Maintenance ration
  • Marbling
  • Margin
  • Marker assisted selection
  • Market hogs
  • Market weight, average
  • Marketable pork produced/yr
  • Mated female death loss percentage
  • Mated female-to-service boar ration
  • Mated femaled
  • Mating
  • Mean
  • Meat breeds
  • Megajoule (MJ)
  • Mixed pigs
  • Monograstric
  • Morbidity
  • Mortality (post-weaning)
  • Mortality (preweaning)
  • Mortality rate
  • Mother breeds
  • Motility
  • Multi-site
  • Multiplier herd
  • Mummification
  • Mummified pigs
  • Mystery swine disease
  • NRC
  • Negative pressure
  • Neutral pressure
  • Niche pork production
  • Nonadditive gene effects
  • Nonproductive sow days
  • Not in pig (NIP)
  • Nucleus herd
  • Number born alive
  • Number of contemporaries
  • Nursemaid sow
  • Nursery
  • Nursery pigs
  • Nursery, cold
  • Nursery, hot
  • Nursery, pre
  • Nursing pig
  • Nutrient
  • OCD
  • Oestrus (UK)
  • Offset
  • Opportunity cost
  • Osmotic pressure
  • Outcrossing
  • Oviduct
  • Ovulation
  • Oxytocin
  • PAR
  • PCR
  • PH
  • PIA
  • PMWS
  • PPV
  • PQA
  • PRCV
  • PRRSV
  • PRV
  • PSE
  • PSS
  • PWM
  • Parity
  • Parity 0
  • Partial Depopulation
  • Parturition
  • Pasture system
  • Pathogen
  • Pedigree
  • Pen mating
  • Per capita consumption
  • Performance data
  • Performance testing
  • Perineum
  • Phase-contrast microscope
  • Phenotype
  • Phenotypic correlation
  • Picnic
  • Pig
  • Pig density
  • Pig flow
  • Piglet
  • Pigs born live/female
  • Pigs sold/yr
  • Pigs weaned per farrowing crate per yr
  • Pigs weaned per female per yr
  • Pigs weaned per sow per yr
  • Pigs weaned per sow-place per yr
  • Plasma
  • Pork
  • Porker
  • Positive pressure
  • Post-weaning death loss percentage
  • Post-weaning loss
  • Pounds of lean pork per day of age
  • Pregnancy
  • Pregnancy rate, 40-d
  • Premature farrowing
  • Preweaning death loss percentage
  • Preweaning loss
  • Primary SPF
  • Production
  • Profitability
  • Progeny testing
  • Prostaglandin-F2α
  • Proximate analysis
  • Purebred
  • Qualitative traits
  • Quantitative traits
  • RFLP
  • RPM
  • Random mating
  • Rate of genetic improvement
  • Ration
  • Recessive gene
  • Reference sire
  • Regression
  • Rent and lease
  • Repair and maintenance
  • Repeat breeder
  • Replacement gilt
  • Replacement rate percentage
  • Restricted feeding
  • Return to estrus
  • Ridgling
  • Rotational cross
  • SEW
  • SMEDI
  • SPF
  • Salt poisoning
  • Savage
  • Scours
  • Seasonal infertility
  • Seed stock
  • Segregated early weaning
  • Selection
  • Selection differential
  • Selection index
  • Semen
  • Service
  • Service, date of
  • Service, early return to
  • Service, effective
  • Service, irregular return to
  • Service, normal or regular return to
  • Service, period
  • Service, repeat
  • Service, retun to
  • Set point
  • Sharps container
  • Shoat
  • Sibs
  • Sire line
  • Sirloin
  • Slaughter
  • Slaughter weight
  • Slaughterhouse
  • Sludge
  • Sow
  • Sow death loss
  • Sow inventory
  • Sow-to-boar ratio
  • Sow-to-gilt ratio
  • Sows weaned/yr
  • Spermatogensis
  • Spermatogonia
  • Split suckle
  • Split wean
  • Stage
  • Stage of production
  • Standing reflex
  • Starter ration
  • Static pressure
  • Stillborn
  • Stillborn percentage
  • Store pig
  • Strep, suis
  • Stress
  • Substandard pig
  • Suckling pig
  • Supplies
  • Supply
  • Swine fever
  • TGE
  • Tag
  • Target
  • Taxes
  • Tenderloin
  • Tenth rib backfat
  • Terminal sires
  • Testing, performance
  • Thermal Buoyancy
  • Thin
  • Three-site production
  • Tilth
  • Total births/litter
  • Total female inventory

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