Livestock Terminology

Meat that we get from Swine? 

• Pork
• Beef
• Poultry
• Lamb

Meat that we get from Cattle? 

• Pork
• Beef
• Mutton
• Chicken

Meat that we get from Sheep? 

• Pork
• Beef
• Poultry
• Mutton

A castrated male chicken:

• Rooster
• Wether
• Capon
• Lapin

An intact male goat:

• Gilt
• Buck
• Wether
• Barrow

A female swine who HAS given birth:

• Heifer
• Barrow
• Sow
• Gelding

A young/baby horse:

• Foal
• Stallion
• Kid
• Calf

A female sheep:

• Lamb
• Doe
• Gilt
• Ewe

A female swine who has NOT given birth:

• Boar
• Doe
• Gilt
• Sow

This term means the male cannot reproduce.

• Intact
• Castrated
• Immature
• Mature