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Swine Terminology
The following is a list of terms that could be helpful in a judging contest
Structure
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Desirable
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Undesirable
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| More durable designed |
frail skeleton |
| Leveler topped, leveler rumped |
high topped, steep rump |
| Leveler designed |
Tight structured |
| Looser structured, more flexible top |
Tight spine |
| Looser spine, higher tail set |
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| More correct slope to the shoulder or scapula |
Straight shoulder |
| More correct set to the knee |
Buck kneed |
| Set farther back at the knee |
Stiff fronted |
| More flex or cushion up front |
Straight fronted |
| More desirable flex or cushion to the pastern |
Straight or steep pastern |
| More flex and give to the rear hock |
Stiff or straight in its rear hock |
| More even toe size |
Small inside toe or uneven toe size |
| Bigger foot |
Small foot |
| Sounder footed |
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Movement
| Looser leveler hip |
Tight hipped |
| Moved with more stability out her hip |
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| Freer moving, freer wheeling |
Restricted in movement |
| More mobile, easier moving |
Stiff moving |
| Moved with a longer truer stride |
Short striding |
| More freedom up front |
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| Sounder moving and would be more adaptable to confinement |
Least adaptable to confinement |
| More durable in confinement |
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| Truer traveling from the rear |
Hocks turn in |
Frame Size
| Large framed |
Small framed |
| Big Scaled |
Small scaled |
| More skeletal Extension |
Short bodied, low fronted |
| Bigger outlined |
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| Longer sided |
Short sided |
| Late maturing |
Small framed, early maturing |
| Larger skeleton |
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| Bigger in his/her kind |
Smaller in kind |
Body Capacity
| Internal volume |
Shallow sided, flat ribbed |
| Body volume |
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| Deeper sided, bolder sprung |
Shallow ribbed, slab sided |
| More dimension of rib |
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| Wider chest |
Narrow top |
| Deeper fore rib, and flank |
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| More capacious |
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| More internal dimension |
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| More center body width |
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Muscle
| Heavier muscled |
Light muscled |
| More expressively muscled |
Narrow top, flat ham |
| More muscular shape to it top |
Narrow top |
| More honest turn to his loin edge |
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| Meatier top |
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| A butterfly shape top |
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| Outer turn to its ham |
Flat, narrow ham |
| Center dimension of ham |
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| More bulging ham |
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| More 3-dimensional ham |
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| Deeper tying ham |
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| More ham-loin indention |
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| Higher in its ham-loin junction |
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| Honest width |
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| Naturally wider underneath |
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| Wider based |
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| Works more volume of muscle from shoulder hip |
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Fat Cover
| Trimmer, leaner |
Fat, wasty, excess conditioned |
| Cleaner loin edge |
Wasty loin edge |
| Shapelier top |
Square top |
| Reads leaner down his top |
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| Leaner scanning |
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| Cleaner or trimmer about the jowl and elbow pocket |
Wasty jowl and elbow pocket |
| Trimmer through the lower one-third |
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| Rawer topped |
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| Revealed more shoulder blade action |
Fat over the shoulder |
| Cleaner designed |
Wasty made |
| Freer of external fat |
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Carcass Terms
A more muscular carcass that will cut open a larger loin eye area
Hang a meatier shaped carcass
More pounds of salable product
Kill with more pounds of edible portion
Simply hang a higher percentage of muscle
Should receive a premium in a lean value marketing system
More carcass value
Higher cutablility carcass that should generate premiums in a lean value based marketing system
Hang a carcass with less trimmable fat
Underline/feminity
| Longer neck |
Short neck |
| Longer headed, more feminine headed |
Short face |
| More feminine fronted |
short and/or coarse fronted |
| Brooder appearing |
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| More maternal appearing |
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| More replacement potential |
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| More prominent underline |
Inverted teats, pin nipples blunt teat, smooth underline |
| More feminine underline |
coarse underline |
| More refined underline |
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| Higher quality, finer textured underline |
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| More evenly space underling |
Poorly spaced underline |
| More functional underline |
Blunt teats, pin nipple |
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Durability
| Stouter, more durable |
Frail |
| Heavier structured |
Refined |
| Heavier skeleton |
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| Heavier boned, more circumference of bone |
Light boned |
| Bigger fronted, stouter headed |
Narrow chest |
| Stouter featured |
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| Bigger footed |
Small footed |
| Wider skeleton |
Narrow skeleton, slab sided |
| More width of structure |
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| More width of body cavity |
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