What do you mean by terms used in swine production such as castration, boar, artificial insemination?

Question

Please define terms used in animal production: 1. castration 2. artificial insemination 3. cattle 4. boar 5. calf drop piglets

Answer 1

1.  Castration - cutting off the testicles of a male animal.  Can be done when young or old.  

2.  artificial insemination - introducing s***n into the uterus or cervix of a female animal by artificial means instead of natural s*x.

3.  cattle - multiple number of bovine, can include any combination of male, female and castrated (steers) animals or one s*x only.

4.  boar -  uncastrated male pig.

5.  calf drop piglets - never heard of it.  A calf is a baby bovine of either s*x.  Drop can mean anything.  Piglets are baby pigs.  A cow will calve and give birth to a calf, a pig will farrow and give birth to a litter of piglets.

Answer 2

Castration means cutting off the testicles so that the swine cannot reproduce.Artificial insemination means inserting the sperm from a male swine into a female swine to enable reproduction.

Answer 3

bikinkawboy:  I definitely agree with you.  As a dairy farmer, I have seen the devastation that bulls can cause.  Also, farmers are never cruel to their animals - thank you for letting people know.

Answer 4

Young male piglets are castrated to keep the meat from having "boar taint".  A mature male hog is full of hormones and when the meat is cooked, the meat emits an odor that smells like boar urine simmering on top of the stove.  Saying it's really nasty is an understatement to say the least.  Several European countries are or have banned castration of pigs because animal rights groups think it's cruel.  They claim there are certain bloodlines that won't stink or eating the meat cold will help cover the stink.  I guess if they like to eat meat that smells like strong boar pee to prevent 10 seconds of discomfort to a little pig, more power to them.

As far as the drop, cattle "drop" calves, ewes drop lambs, does drop kids but for some reason sows "have" pigs.  Maybe it's because sows often lay down while pigging where the others stand up when giving birth.  The good thing about a sow laying down when pigging is that she's less likely to eat her young.  The ones that are acting crazy and standing up seem to be the same ones that enjoy a good piglet sandwich.  Maybe the animal rights people need to be focusing on the cannibalization of one's own young more than a quick casteration.

ADDITIONAL

donfletc, no offense but you need to get your facts straight.  I use a burzido, or clamps and yes they do crush everything that needs crushing, but ne, you don't yank back and tear anything apart.  The jaws don't close completely, so blood flow is not disrupted to the s*****m.  With ram lambs, the blood flow to the s*****m does seem to be disrupted more so and most eventually fall off.  On the other hand, calves usually have a puckered up, non-functional s*****m for however long they are around.  Clamping is normally used on animals that have a more pendulous s*****m such as cattle, sheep and goats.  Surgical casteration is normally used on horses and pigs where the s*****m is held more tightly against the body.  

And use a knife as dull as a butter knife???  Who's the lier that told you that?  PETA?  First of all, if you'd ever casterated a pig or calf, you'd know there's absolutely no way it would be possible using a dull knife.  You need something very, very sharp.  In fact, some people used razor blade box cutters.  

Pain?  Sure, I won't lie or downplay that.  With little pigs, lambs or calves there is physical discomfort, but within minutes they're back nursing and within a day they're tearing around playing.  The older the animal, the more traumatic a physical casteration is.  On nearly adult or adult animals like rams or bulls, I much prefer clamping.  They are stiff and stove up for a couple of days, just like after I had a vasectomy (another barbaric practice???) but the risk of infection is lessened greatly since no incisions are made.  

I suggest you actually visit a farm to see how things are done.  Farmers are not cruel and do not intentionally inflict pain on their animals.  Think about it, livestock are raised to make money and abused animals don't make money plain and simple.  

And as far as casteration being barbaric, intact males are often dangerous to themselves as well as humans.  Ram sheep fight for dominance by butting heads and Iv'e had several that broke their necks (and died) from doing so.  One pair had a fence seperating them but they were still fighting.  Rams have even killed humans, most recently an old couple.  One tried to save the other and was themselve killed.

Bulls can become mean and people being killed by bulls is much too common.  Even when they aren't mean, bulls destroy fences, feeders, barn walls, everything just butting them.  I know guys with the sides of their pickups crushed in from mean bulls.  Stallions fight and tear each other into bloody shreds, buck goats have butted people in the legs and broken their knees and boar hogs (as well as sows) have killed people.  The only difference is hogs usually eat the person...true fact.  So maybe you better get your facts straight from actual experience and not just hearsay or some animal activist propoganda.

Answer 5

castration;means cutting of  male genetalia of young one of swine.

boar;male pig

artificial insemination;means insertion of  male sperm in female by artificial means  .

Answer 6

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Answer 7

A minor correction, castration may not involve cutting, as many castrations use a burdizo tool that crushes the vas deferens and a lot of innocent tissue, and then while the tissues are mostly still restrained are pulled clear of the part attacjhed to the testes.

This is not just sterilization, it substantially inhibits the life of the testes as well, removing the ability to produce testosterone.

The claimed benefit is that by avoiding cutting the skin there is less risk of infection and death.

Pigs, having the s*****m fairly tight to the body when young often escape this barbaric ritual, and are castrated with a dull butter knife, (less risk to the hands of the herdsman).

Answer 8

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