Clean Jointed

Clean jointed is a term that can be utilized through all livestock- both breeding and market. The term cleaner jointed usually refers to the amount of swelling, or lack there of, on the animals hock. Being swollen jointed or puffy hocked is the opposite of clean jointed, and is clearly a negative. Having swelling on an animals joint work is typically correlated with a structure problem or injury and can hinder that way the animal moves, being very painful.

Distribution of the types of classes in our database this term is used in.