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• bottle jaw

  Bottle jaw disease mostly affects cattle, goats, and sheep. It is an abnormal swelling that occurs below the jaw due to the accumulation of fluid under the skin.
• bracts

  A modified leaf growing just below a flower or flower stalk.
• branding

  To burn a cow to make a mark.
• breeding unit

  The process of producing plants or animals by hybridization, inbreeding or other methods of reproduction.
• broiler

  A young chick suitable for meat production
• broiler house

  The space where you farm chickens for meat production or egg laying.
• brood

  group of young animals (birds, insects) that are raised together by their parents.
• brood sow

  female pig that is kept for breeding purpose.
• brood mare

  female horse that is kept for breeding purpose.
• Budding

  Budding is a mode of asexual reproduction where a new organism develops as an outgrowth from the body of the parent organism
• buffer capacity

  The ability of a soil to resist changes in pH. Commonly determined by presence of clay, humus, and other colloidal materials.
• bulk bin

  Bulk bins are reusable, high-capacity storage containers that simplify material storage for warehousing and logistics operations.
• bulk density

  The mass of dry soil per unit of bulk volume, including the air space. The bulk volume is determined before drying the constant weight at 105 degrees Celsius.
• bull

  A bull is a male bovine animal.
• bulling

  The behaviour of a cow when she is in heat.
• bullock

  A bullock is a young bull that has been castrated.
• cabbage

  a cultivated plant eaten as a vegetable, having thick green or purple leaves surrounding a spherical heart or head of young leaves.
• cage

  A cage is a structure of wire or metal bars in which birds or animals are kept, or anything that confines or imprisons.
• calf

  A young cow or the young of other large mammals.
• calving interval

  The amount of time (days or months) between the birth of a calf and the birth of a subsequent calf, both from the same cow.
• calving percentage

  Calving percentage is a measure of reproductive efficiency in cattle.
• camel

  a large, long-necked ungulate mammal of arid country, with long slender legs, broad cushioned feet, and either one or two humps on the back.
• candidiasis

  Infectious disease produced by the yeastlike fungus Candida albicans and closely related species.
• cane sugar

  A category of sugar that is made exclusively from sugar cane.
• cape sparrow

  The Cape sparrow, or mossie, is a bird of the sparrow family Passeridae found in southern Africa.