Agriculture Reference
In-Depth Information
Chapter 6: Goats
GOAT GLOSSARY
Abomasum:
The last of the four compartments in a goat's digestive system, where
true digestion occurs
ADGA:
American Dairy Goat Association
Advanced registry:
A doe documented to have given a set amount of milk over
the course of a year (high-yield)
Alcilli:
Another name for alveoli
Alveoli:
Tiny sack-like structures containing cells that secrete milk in a mammary
gland
American:
A doe that is seven-eighths pure of one breed or a buck that is fifteen-
sixteenths pure
Anthelmintics:
Medications that eliminate worms
Artificial insemination (AI):
The impregnation of a doe using frozen sperm from a
donor buck
Blind teat:
A nonfunctional teat
Broken-mouthed:
A term for a goat missing some of its front incisors
Buck:
A male goat
Buckling:
An uncastrated male kid
Burdizzo
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:
A tool used to neuter young bucks
CAE:
Caprine arthritic encephalitis,
a viral rheumatic joint inflammation passed from mother to kid
Castrate:
To render a buck sterile
Chamois:
A deep, reddish-brown color found in the Oberhasli breed
Chevon:
Goat meat
