Farm Tour Vocabulary

            Cattle

Bull: fertile male cattle over one year old

Calf: any young cattle less than one year old

Cow: mature female cattle that has given birth

Heifer: a young beef or dairy female that has not given birth

Ox: mature, castrated bull

Ruminant: animals that digest food using four-part stomach system (includes cattle, goat,

and sheep) with the aid of symbiotic bacteria

Stanchion: device used to restrain a cow inside the barn, but allows for some up and

down and some forward and backward motion; used so cow will not walk away while being milked

Steer: an ox less than four years old

            Chickens

            Capons: castrated male birds

Chicks: young birds with down feathers

Hen: mature female chicken

Poultry: includes chicken, geese, duck, turkey, and guinea fowl

            Pullets: young immature birds

            Rooster: mature male chicken

            Honeybees

            Drones: male honeybee; large, stout body and large eyes; main job is to mate with queen

Queen: egglayer in the colony, larger than worker and longer than drone, may lay up to

3,000 eggs/day

Workers: female bees that are the smallest members of the colony and most plentiful,

main workers in the hive

            Rabbits

            Buck: male rabbit

            Bunny: a young rabbit

            Doe: female rabbit

            Sheep

Ewe: mature female sheep

Lamb: sheep age one year and below

Ram: mature male sheep

Wether: castrated ram

            Swine

Barrow: young castrated male

Boar: fertile male

Gilt: young female pig

Hog: full grown swine

Pig: young, immature swine

Piglet: baby pig

Sow: female