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1. Foot Rot is scientifically known as what?
Low blood levvels of ionized calcium
Stainless steel
Listeria
Interdigital phlegmon

2. Milk let down in a dairy cow may be stimulated by...
Feeding the cow
Longer than 1.5 inches
25
The initiation of milk secretion

3. What percent of crude protein should a calf starter be?
Direct Microscopic Counts
16-18
Displaced abomasum
Nonfat Dry Milk

4. What is the USDA's AIPL?
Calories
Animal Improvement Program Lab
Administered via blood vessels
Bangs

5. A ____________gene in Black and White Holsteins is responsible for the red and white color being expressed at times...
Hardware disease
Calories
Recessive
Net Energy

6. Which dairy breed's milk is golden-yellow in color?
75%
Guernsey
Sterile heifer born twin to a bull
Heat detection and conception rates

7. A dairy cow that has all 8 permanent incisor teeth can be considered to be a minimum of ______________old.
GTPI
Brown Swiss
Composting
4 years

8. Rumen bacteria enable dairy cattle to utilize which feed supplement?
Urea
Vibriosis
87%
Retained placenta

9. What manure waste management method runs manure across a press and squeezes the water out?
Solids removal
Modified Live Virus
Pulsator
Dairy character

10. How many grams of lactose are in an 8 oz. glass of milk?
Restraint and control of the animal
10
Cheese
.39%

11. Which hormone produced by the uterus causes regression of the corpus luteum?
10
PGF
No less than 60% moisture
Food safety and Inspection Service

12. Hairy Heel Wart is scientifically known as what?
Digital Dermatitis
Cows Milk production this month divided by production last month X 100
10 days
Very good

13. What kinds of relationship do cattle and the microorganisms in their rumen share?
Reduce the incidence of mastitis
Symbiotic
60 days
Cheese

14. What is the sex chromosome configuration of a male calf?
20 to 24
Collecting the methane gas being produced and using it as an energy source on the dairy
XY
Rear feet and legs

15. How many das into a pregnancy can a fetus be sexed by ultrasound?
Pastuerized Milk Ordinance
100%
After 55 days
Magnesium

16. Dairy cows produce milk that is relatively high in B complex vitamins. Because they are ruminants...
It is not necessary to supplement the intake of Vitamin B complex
Brown Swiss
Hardware disease
Propionic acid

17. NFDM
The abomasums of a milk fed calf
Solids removal
Sickle hocked
Nonfat Dry Milk

18. What are the four composite indexes calculated by the Holstein Association?
Udder - feet and legs - body form - & dairy character
20
Rumen and reticulum
Nonfat Dry Milk

19. Which trait is worth the most points according to the Dairy Cow Unified Score Card?
Udder - feet and legs - body form - & dairy character
Citrate
Udder
50-70

20. Manure digesters convert _______________ fuel into electricity.
Methane
After 200 days of lactation
5
Brucellosis

21. What is another term for the lowest lateral regions of the abdomen - near the groin?
Bovine Viral Diarrhea
Inguinal
Small intestine
Nitrogen excretion

22. Dairy Farmers frequently place a stomach magnet into their cows to...
Prevent ingested metal objects from interfering with the digestive tract or the respiratory system
Feed
Nonstructural Carbohydrates
Leukocytes

23. How is a dairy's RHA calculated?
By dividing the total amount of milk produced in the past 365 days by the total number of cow years in the herd last year.
Black leg
1
50-80%

24. What percent of milk is water?
16-18
Restraint and control of the animal
After each use
87%

25. ___________ represents the largest daily input cost in producing milk.
Feed
5
Mixer box on a truck or trailer
Follicular and luteal

26. At what isoelectric point (point at which proteins have net zero charge) do caseins precipitate?
PH 4.6
Alfalfa and Clover
Cystic
Feed

27. Milk with over_____________ somatic cell count cannot legally be shipped in the United States?
750000
Disbudding
Milking Shorthorn
A minimum of every 6 months

28. A free martin is considered a...
Rolling Herd Average
80
To add a concentrated form of energy
Sterile heifer born twin to a bull

29. The standard length of the dry period in dairy cattle is ________?
Fat
Leukocytes
60 days
Parallels out performed herringbones by nearly 8%

30. How often will HACCP inspect each Dairy Farm?
85
NAtional Research Council
A minimum of every 6 months
The weaving gait of affected cattle

31. What is the reasonable score for body condition at mid-lactation?
3.0
Limber leg
Sole
85

32. In the standard protocol for cleaning milking equipment - which of the following is not one of the four phases of cleaning?
Food Animal Residue Avoidance Databank
40/60
70% moisture
Back flushing

33. What numerical value does a Holstein cow get when given the classification good?
Direct Microscopic Counts
Holstein
75-79.9
Jersey

34. IDFA
Decreases - increases
International Dairy Foods Associactions
Udder
Side by side (head out)

35. A dairy expects to cull approximately _________% of their herd each year.
Fat
25-30
Jersey
9%

36. How often will HACCP inspect each Dairy Farm?
A minimum of every 6 months
Large Plastic Bags
3.5-4.0
Total Digestible Nutrients

37. Brucellosis is also know as...
Two weeks prior to calving
Rolling Herd Average
Bangs
Inguinal

38. What are two methods for shortening udder hair?
Clipping and singeing
Vitamin A
Low blood levvels of ionized calcium
High % of water

39. The portion of the ruminant digestive system which is known as and functions as the 'true' stomach is the...
Abomasum
Farm Service Agency
To add a concentrated form of energy
Stainless steel

40. The only aspect of milk quality that can be completely controlled on the farm is ______________.
Milk on Demand
Drug residue
It has a lower vacuum requirement
Cheese

41. Bovine Progressive Degenerative Myeloencephalopathy (BPDME) is better known as Weaver Syndrome because of...
Laminitis
Streptococus agalactae
The weaving gait of affected cattle
15 months

42. In what year did the Holstein Association start its program of recording carriers of Undesirable Recessive Traits?
European Union
National Milk Producers Federation
1957
Methane

43. Which one of the following describes biotin?
Allowing them access to their new born calf for the 1st 30 days
Hardware disease
A B-Vitamin
Copper sulfate

44. The circulatory system of a dairy cow is very important to milk production. A dairy cow must circulate about _________ of blood for each pound of milk produced.
Foreign Agricultural Service
Rolling Herd Average
400 pounds
Collecting the methane gas being produced and using it as an energy source on the dairy

45. The rumen of a cow is located...
Left side of the body
Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
Plant starch - pectin - and sugar
Mycobacterium Paratuberculosis

46. New computerized robotic milk stations are becoming a reality today. They have different names but one common one is MOD system. MOD means...
Milk on Demand
25
Milk fever
By dividing the total amount of milk produced in the past 365 days by the total number of cow years in the herd last year.

47. NRC
Alfalfa and Clover
NAtional Research Council
When it is proven that she will breed
Retained placenta

48. USDEC
Mycobacterium Paratuberculosis
No less than 60% moisture
Bone calcium
United States Dairy Export Council

49. What female hormone causes follicles to begin to develop?
Digital Dermatitis
It is not necessary to supplement the intake of Vitamin B complex
Follicle stimulating hormone
Guernsey

50. The _____________is the device responsible for regulating both the vacuum level and the proportion of the vacuum for the front and rear quarters
Pulsator
Omasum
45-55
Side by side (head out)

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