{"id":2016,"date":"2016-03-26T18:46:32","date_gmt":"2016-03-26T22:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bovin.qc.ca\/en\/?page_id=2016"},"modified":"2022-04-28T10:51:26","modified_gmt":"2022-04-28T14:51:26","slug":"glossary","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bovin.qc.ca\/en\/who-are-we\/glossary\/","title":{"rendered":"Glossary"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Glossary<\/h1>\n<p>This glossary is intended as an explanation in plain language of certain terms frequently used in cattle production. It is not meant to be a scientific reference but simply a tool facilitating understanding of our site.<\/p>\n<table style=\"font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Backgrounding:<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Growth phase of the feeder calf between weaning and finishing<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>BSE (bovine spongiform encephalopathy):<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Progressive fatal diseases of the cattle nervous system associated with the presence of an abnormal protein called prion<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Cull cattle:<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Dairy or beef cattle at the end of their career marketed for meat<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Dairy calf:<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Young dairy calf marketed for growing for the purpose of veal production (generally males) or for dairy production (females)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Fed cattle:<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Beef cattle grown for beef production<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Feeder calf or cow-calf:<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Feeder calf fed on its mother&#8217;s milk and pasture grass<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Feedlot:<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Pens used to grow the animals<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Finishing:<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Last phase of cattle production during which cattle are grown to an ideal weight for slaughter<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Grain-fed calf:<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Dairy calf fed mainly with grain corn for the purpose of veal production<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Heifer:<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Young female that has not yet given birth to a calf<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Milk-fed calf:<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Dairy calf fed mainly with milk (milk replacer) for the purpose of veal production<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Preconditioning:<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Action of preparing the feeder calf (vaccinating, weaning, castrating, dehorning, deworming) with the aim of continuing to grow it<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Weaning:<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Action of ceasing to feed a calf on a diet mainly consisting of milk to replace it with a solid diet<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Glossary This glossary is intended as an explanation in plain language of certain terms frequently used in cattle production. It is not meant to be a scientific reference but simply a tool facilitating understanding of our site. Backgrounding: Growth phase of the feeder calf between weaning and finishing BSE (bovine spongiform encephalopathy): Progressive fatal diseases [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":1672,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2016","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bovin.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bovin.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bovin.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bovin.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bovin.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2016"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/bovin.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14127,"href":"https:\/\/bovin.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2016\/revisions\/14127"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bovin.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bovin.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}