ansc 200 accronyms

amino acid

Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada

Adrenocorticotrophic Hormone

Animal Care and Use Committee Livestock

Acid Detergent Fibre

Average Daily Gain

Anti-Diuretic Hormone

Alberta Farm Animal Care

Agriculture and Food Council

Agriculture, Food and Nutritional Science

• Artificial Insemination
• Avian Influenza

Alberta Innovates Biosolutions

Alberta Institute of Agrologists

Agriculture, Life, and Enviornmental Sciences

Animal Liberation Front

Alberta Livestock and Meat Agency

Apparent Metabolizable Energy

Alberta Milk Producers

Animal Nutrition Association of Canada

Alberta Agriculture and Rural Development

Breed Class Average

Body Condition Score

Butterfat

Best Management Practices

Basal Metabolic Rate

Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy

Bovine Somatotrophin

Body Weight

Corpus Albicans

Canadian Agri-Food Research Council

Canadian Council on Animal Care

Canadian Cattle Identification Agency

Critical Control Point

Crude Fibre

Chicken Farmers of Canada

Confined Feeding Operations

Corpus Luteum

Conjugated Linoleic Acid

Central Nervous System

Canadian On-Farm Food Safety Program

Crude Protein

Distiller's Dried Grains with Solubles

Digestible Energy

Dry, Firm, Dark (ie-condition of meat)

Dairy Herd Improvement

Dry Matter

Dead on Arrival

Double Yoked Egg

Ether Extract

Egg Farmers Alberta

Enzyme Linked Immudoadsorbent Assay

Erratic Oviposition and Defective Egg Syndrome

Embryo Transfer

Fatty Acid

Farm Credit Canada

Feed Conservation Rate

Feed Efficiency

Foot and Mouth Disease

Follicle Stimulating Hormone

Gross Energy

Growth Hormone

Gastro-Intestinal Tract

Gonadotropin Releasing Hormone

Heritability

Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point

Human Chorionic Gonadotropin

Hen Day egg production

Hen Housed egg production

There's a Heifer In Your Tank

Immunoglobin

Insulin-like Growth Factor

Intramuscular (ie.-injection)

Intraperitoneal (ie.-injection)

Individually Quick Frozen

Intravenous (ie.-injection)

In vitro fertilization

Justin in Time (production efficiency strategy)

Least Cost Formulation

Left-displaced Abomasum

Luteinizing Hormone

Modified Atmosphere Killing

Metabolizable Energy

ME Requirement for Maintenance

Market Share Quota

Neutral Detergent Fibe

Net Energy

Net Energy of Maintenance

Net Energy of Production

Nitrogen-Free Extract

Non-starch Polysaccharide

On-Farm Food Safety Assurance Program

World Orgainzation for Animal Health (Office International des Epizooties)

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals

Prostaglandin

Premises Identification

Pregnant Mare Serum Gonadotropin

Pregnant Mare Urine

Pale, Soft, Exudative (ie.-condition of meat)

Porcine Stress Syndrome

Red Blood Cell

Residual Feed Intake

Relative Humidty

Radioimmunoassay

• Rectal Prolapse
• Retained Placenta
• Retractor Penis Muscle

Ready To Eat

Sudden Death Syndrome (Flip Syndrome)

The five supply managed commodities in Canada (Milk, Chicken, Eggs, Turkey, and Broiler hatching eggs)

Single Nucleotide Polymorphism

Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

Specified Risk Materials

Triiodothyronine

Thyroxine

Total Digestible Nurtients

Transmissible GastroEnteritis

Thyroid Hormone

Total Mixed Ration

University of Calgary Faculty of Veterinary Medicine

United States Department of Agriculture

Utero-Vaginal Junction

Volatile Fatty Acids

Western College of Veterinary Medicine

World Health Organization