Swine Management Practices

________ is a form of ownership or strategic management where all or more than one section of an industry is combined under the same ownership.

• Seedstock operation

• Vertical integration

• Farrow-to-finish

• Farrow-to-nursery

Which breed is red with white faces, feet and underline?

• Hampshire

• Duroc

• Hereford

• Tamworth

What is the first limiting nutrient of all animals?

• Water

• Protein

• Minerals

• Vitamins

What is a main factor in selecting breeding hogs?

• Muscling

• Frame size

• Structural correctness

• Maternal traits

________ is the period of time in a sow’s cycle when she is receptive to a boar for breeding purposes and the vulva is swollen and red.

• Gestation

• Farrowing

• Castration

• Estrus

The gestation length of swine is three weeks and three days.

• True

• False

______ is the mother’s first milk and contains the antibodies necessary for the piglets’ health.

• Colostrum
• Castration

• Farrowing

• Gestation

______ is the universal swine identification system.

• Ear notching
• Ear tagging

• Tail trimming

• Castration

______ is the removal of the testicles from a male animal.

• Castration
• Ear notching

• Tail trimming

• Ear tagging

The USDA pork grades are one, two, three, four and utility.

• True

• False