What's that animal called?

We had Jason Hunt from Jason's Mobile RV Service come out to check our washer/dryer on Wednesday. He confirmed that we have a leak in the water pump and that the likelihood of getting a replacement water pump is pretty low (the company last sold new ones in 2003, and used ones are... uhm... used and/or not available). His wife, Monica, came with him on the mobile call, and she and I had a very informative conversation (for me) on showing of goats.

Their two daughters (12 and 10, I think) show goats. I think they show Boer goats (a meat producing breed). She told me that they show "wethers" - I had not heard that term before, but it is a castrated male goat.

When I thought about it, it made sense - a castrated horse is a "gelding" and a castrated cow is a "steer", but I had not considered that there would be a different term for different species of animals.

Can you name what the term is for baby, adult male, juvenile male, adult female, juvenile female, and castrated male of each of the following animals?

• horse
• cow
• goat
• sheep
• chicken
• swine

 <play the Final Jeopardy! music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3lLYOGDsts to enable your thinking....>

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Here is what I have learned from a small amount of internet research:

Type	Baby	Male	Young Male	Female	Young Female	Castrated Male
Horse	Foal	Stallion	Colt	Mare	Filly	Gelding
Cow	Calf	Bull		Cow	Heifer	Steer
Goat	Kid	Buck/billy		Doe/nanny		Wether
Sheep	Lamb	Ram		Ewe		Wether
Chicken	Chick	Rooster / cock	Cockerel	Hen	Pullet	Capon
Swine	Piglet	Boar		Sow	Gilt	Barrow

The terms "bull", "cow" and "calf" are also used by extension to denote the sex or age of other large animals, including whales, hippopotamuses, camels, elk, and elephants.