Beef Cattle Glossary

  • Abomasum
  • Abortion-beef cattle
  • Abscess-beef cattle
  • Absorption
  • Accessory organs
  • Accuracy (of selection)
  • Acid detergent fiber
  • Ad libitum
  • Adjusted Weaning Weight
  • Afterbirth
  • Agricultural Marketing Service
  • AI
  • Air dry
  • Allelomimetic behavior
  • Alliance
  • Alveolus
  • Amino acid-beef cattle
  • Amino acid, limiting
  • Amino acid, essential
  • Amnion
  • Ampulla
  • Anabolism
  • Anaplasmosis
  • Androgen
  • Anestrous-beef cattle
  • Anorexia nervosa
  • Antagonist
  • Antemortem
  • Anterior Pituitary
  • Anthelmintic-beef cattle
  • Antibiotics
  • Antibody
  • Antigen
  • Antiseptic
  • Antioxidants-beef cattle
  • Artery
  • Arteriosclerosis
  • Artificial insemination
  • Artificial vagina
  • As fed
  • Assimilation
  • ATP
  • Atherosclerosis
  • Atrophy
  • AU
  • AUM
  • Autopsy
  • Average daily gain (ADG)
  • Backgrounding
  • Bacterin
  • Balance, metabolic
  • Balanced ration
  • Bang’s disease
  • Barren
  • Basal Metabolism
  • Beef Carcass Data Service
  • Beef Improvement Federation (BIF)
  • Beri-beri
  • Bioassay measurements
  • Biological value, protein
  • Biosecurity
  • Birth weight-beef cattle
  • Birth weight EPD
  • Blackleg
  • Blemish-beef cattle
  • Bloat
  • BLUP
  • Body condition score
  • Bog spavin
  • Bolus
  • Bone spavin
  • Bos Indicus
  • Bos Taurus
  • Bovine
  • Boxed beef
  • Brand
  • Bred
  • Breed Average (herd-mates)
  • Breed- beef cattle
  • Breech
  • Breeding value-beef cattle
  • Brisket disease
  • British breeds
  • Brockle-faced
  • Broken-mouth
  • BRSV (Bovine Respiratory Syncytial Virus)
  • Brucellosis-beef cattle
  • Bulbourethral (Cowper’s) gland
  • Bull
  • Buller-Steer Syndrome
  • Bullock
  • Bunk breaking
  • Bunker silo
  • Bureau of Land Management
  • Bushel
  • Buttons
  • BVD (Bovine Virus Diarrhea)
  • By-product
  • Calf
  • Calf crop
  • Calf-feds
  • Calfhood Vaccination (Official Calfhood Vaccination)
  • Call option
  • Calve
  • Calving interval
  • Calving season
  • Capped hocks
  • Captive supply
  • Carcass Cutability
  • Carcass Evaluation
  • Carcass merit
  • Carcass weight
  • Carrier
  • Carrying capacity-beef cattle
  • Caruncle
  • Casein
  • Castrate
  • Catabolism
  • Cattalo
  • Cattle cycle
  • Cecum
  • Center for Veterinary Medicine
  • Central Testing Stations
  • Certified organic beef
  • Cervix
  • Cesarean section
  • Chemical score
  • Chemotherapeutics
  • Cholesterol
  • Chorion
  • Chronic(s)
  • Chute Randomization
  • Chyme
  • Chymotrypsin
  • CIDR
  • Class
  • Clitoris
  • Closed Herds
  • Clostridial disease
  • Coccidia
  • Coccidiosis
  • Coccidiostat
  • Cod
  • Colostrum-beef cattle
  • Commercial
  • Comparable Cows
  • Compensatory gain
  • Composite
  • Concentrate
  • Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation
  • Conception
  • Congenital
  • Continental breeds
  • Cooperative Extension Service
  • Correlation-beef cattle
  • Corpus luteum
  • Cost of gain
  • Cow
  • Cow-calf operation
  • Creep feeding
  • Crossbreeding
  • Crude fiber
  • Crude protein
  • Cryptochidism
  • Cud
  • Cull
  • Curb
  • Custom Feedyard
  • Cutability
  • Cwt
  • Cycling
  • Dam
  • Dark cutter
  • Days on feed
  • DIP
  • Dehorn
  • Delivery month
  • Deviation
  • Dewclaws
  • Dewlap
  • Dietary adjustment period
  • Digest
  • Digestible energy
  • Digestibility
  • Distillers grains
  • Dominant-beef cattle
  • Double Muscling
  • Downer
  • Drench
  • Dressing Percentage
  • Drop
  • Drop credit
  • Dry matter
  • Dwarfism
  • Dysentery
  • Dystocia-beef cattle
  • E. Coli
  • Economic Value
  • Edema
  • Ejaculation
  • Electronic Identification
  • Emaciation
  • Embryo transfer
  • Emulsifiers
  • Endocrine gland
  • Enzyme
  • Epididymis
  • Epiphysis
  • Equal Progeny Treatment
  • Eruction
  • Esophageal groove
  • Estrous-beef cattle
  • Estrus-beef cattle
  • Expected progeny difference
  • Fastiny
  • Fatty acids, essential
  • Feed additives
  • Feed adulterants
  • Feed conversion
  • Feed efficiency
  • Feed grain
  • Feed markup
  • Feeder
  • Feeder grades
  • Fertility
  • Fescue toxicity
  • Fetus-beef cattle
  • Finish-beef cattle
  • Fistula
  • Flehmen
  • Food and Drug Administration
  • Food Safety and Inspection Service
  • Footrot
  • Forage
  • Force-fed
  • Founder
  • Frame score
  • Frame size
  • Free choice
  • Freemartin
  • Futures contract
  • Generally regarded as safe
  • Generation interval-beef cattle
  • Genes
  • Genetic Correlation
  • Genome
  • Genotype
  • Gestation
  • Goiter
  • Gonad
  • Gossypol
  • Grade
  • Grass tetany
  • Green chop
  • Grid
  • Haemophilus somnus
  • Half-sib
  • Hand mating-beef cattle
  • Hay
  • Haylage
  • Heat synchronization
  • Heifer
  • Heiferette
  • Herd-beef cattle
  • Heredity
  • Heritability
  • Heritability Estimate
  • Hernia
  • Heterosis
  • Heterozygous
  • Hides
  • High moisture corn
  • Homeotherm
  • Homozygous
  • Hydrocephalus
  • Hypothalamus
  • Hypoxia
  • IBR (Infectious Bovine Rhinotracheitis)
  • Implantation
  • Immunity-beef cattle
  • Inbreeding-beef cattle
  • Incomplete Dominance
  • Independent culling level
  • Index-beef cattle
  • Infection
  • Ingest
  • Inheritance
  • Insemination-beef cattle
  • Integration
  • Intensity (of selection)
  • Intermediary metabolism
  • Intravenous
  • Intrinsic factor
  • In vitro
  • Involution
  • Ionophore
  • Ketosis
  • Kidney, pelvic and heart fat
  • Killed vaccine
  • Kosher meat
  • Kwashiorkor
  • Lactalbumin
  • Lactation-beef cattle
  • Lagoon-beef cattle
  • Land Grant University
  • Lean body mass
  • Legume
  • Leptospirosis (5-varieties)
  • Libido-beef cattle
  • Lice
  • Line breeding
  • Line crossing
  • Linear Measurements
  • Liver flukes
  • Longevity
  • Luteinizing hormone
  • Macroclimate
  • Macromineral
  • Maintenance
  • Malnutrition
  • Mammary gland
  • Marasmus
  • Marbling-beef cattle
  • Market class
  • Market grade
  • Masticate
  • Meat
  • Melengestrol acetate
  • Metabolic body size
  • Metabolic water
  • Metabolism
  • Metabolites
  • Metabolizable energy
  • Metritis
  • Microclimate
  • Micromineral
  • Milk EPD
  • Minimum culling level
  • Modified live vaccine
  • Monoparous
  • Morbidity-beef cattle
  • Mortality rate-beef cattle
  • Most Probable Producing Ability
  • Mouthed
  • Muzzle
  • Mycotoxins
  • National Sire Evaluation
  • Natural Resources Conservation Service
  • Near Infrared Reflectance Spectroscopy
  • Necropsy-beef cattle
  • Net energy
  • Net energy for maintenance
  • Net energy for production
  • Neutral detergent fiber
  • Nicking
  • Nitrogen-carbon balance
  • Non-point pollution
  • NPN
  • Number of Contemporaries
  • Nutrient-beef cattle
  • Nutrient/calorie ratio
  • Nutrient density
  • Nutrient management plan
  • Nutritional stress
  • Offal
  • Oilseeds
  • Omasum
  • Oocyte
  • Open
  • Outbreeding
  • Outcrossing-beef cattle
  • Ovary
  • Overeating disease
  • Overshot jaw
  • Ovulation
  • Ovum
  • PI3 (Parainfluenza virus)
  • Palpation
  • Parasite-beef cattle
  • Parity-beef cattle
  • Parrot mouth
  • Parturient paresis
  • Parturition-beef cattle
  • Pasture rotation
  • Pasteurella baemolytica
  • Paunch
  • Pay weight
  • Pedigree-beef cattle
  • Pellets
  • Pencil shrink
  • Penis
  • Performance Data
  • Performance Pedigree
  • Performance test
  • Phenotype
  • Phenotype Correlations
  • Pheromones
  • Pin bones
  • Pinkeye (Infectious Bovine Keratoconjunctivitis, or IBK)
  • Pinworms
  • Placenta
  • Pneumonia
  • Polled
  • Polyphagia
  • Positive controls
  • Possible Change Value
  • Postgastric fermentation
  • Postpartum
  • Postpartum interval
  • Pounds of Retail Cuts per Day of Age
  • Preconditioning
  • Precursor
  • Pregastric fermentation
  • Prenatal
  • Probe
  • Process verified program
  • Production testing
  • Progeny
  • Progeny Data
  • Progeny testing-beef cattle
  • Progesterone-beef cattle
  • Prolapse
  • Prostaglandins
  • Prostate
  • Protein
  • Protein efficiency ratio
  • Protein sparing action
  • Protein supplement
  • Prussic acid
  • Puberty
  • Purebred
  • Put option
  • Qualitative traits-beef cattle
  • Quantitative trait locus
  • Quality System Assessment Program
  • Quality
  • Quality grades
  • Quantitative Traits
  • Radio frequency identification
  • Railer
  • Random Mating
  • Range cubes
  • Rangeland
  • Rate of Genetic Improvement
  • Ration
  • Reach
  • Realized heritability
  • Realizer
  • Recessive gene
  • Reciprocal recurrent selection
  • Rectal prolapse
  • Recurrent selection
  • Red meat
  • Reference Sire
  • Registered
  • Regression
  • Regurgitate
  • Repeatablility
  • Reproduction-beef cattle
  • Retained placenta
  • Reticulum
  • Rhinitis
  • Rib-eye area
  • Rotavirus
  • Roughage
  • Rumen
  • Ruminant
  • Rumination
  • Scale-beef cattle
  • Scours-beef cattle
  • Screwworms
  • Scrotal circumference
  • Scrotum
  • Scurs
  • Selection
  • Selection Differential
  • Seminal vesicles
  • Seminiferous tubules
  • Settle
  • Shipping fever
  • Shrink
  • Sickle hocked
  • Sigmoid flexure
  • Silage
  • Silage bags
  • Silo
  • Soilage
  • Somatotropin
  • Specific combining ability
  • Standing heat
  • Stags
  • Starvation
  • Steam flaking
  • Steer
  • Sterility
  • Stifle
  • Stocker
  • Stomach worms
  • Structural soundness
  • Subcutaneous (SQ or subq)
  • Suckling gain
  • Superovulation
  • Supplement
  • Switch
  • Syndactyly
  • Synthesis
  • Tallow
  • Tandem selection
  • Tattoo
  • TDN
  • Teat
  • Terminal sire
  • Testicle
  • Testosterone
  • Tetanus
  • Thermoneutral zone
  • Thoroughpin
  • Total mixed ration
  • Toxicity
  • Transgenic animals
  • Tripe
  • Twist
  • Type
  • Udder
  • UIP
  • Ultrasonics
  • Ultrasound
  • Umbilical cord
  • Undegradable intake protein
  • United States Department of Agriculture
  • United States Forest Service
  • Upright silo
  • Urinary calculi
  • Uterus
  • Vaccination
  • Vaccine
  • Vagina
  • Variance
  • Variety meats
  • Vas deferens
  • Vasectomy
  • Veal
  • Vermifuge
  • Vibriosis
  • Vitamin
  • Vitamin precursors
  • Volatile fatty acids (VFA)
  • Vulva
  • Warble
  • Wattle
  • Weaning-beef cattle
  • Weaning weight EPD
  • Weanling
  • Weight per Day of Age
  • Weight Ratio
  • White muscle disease
  • Withdrawal time
  • Yardage
  • Yearling
  • Yearling weight EPD
  • Yield-beef cattle
  • Yield grades
  • Zone of thermoneutrality
  • Zoonotic Diseases