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Dairy Cattle Basics
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1. Which dairy breed originated in the central part of the European continent?
Carbon
Roughage
Brown Swiss
Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation
2. NFO
A positively charged ion
National Farmers Organization
Reticulum
Sole
3. A rolling herd average (RHA) is based on how many months?
Pink eye
60 days
Twelve
Water
4. One of the highest heritability traits for milk is...
Cellulose - hemicellulose - and lignin
20 to 24
% Protein
General Agreement on Tariff and Trade
5. When evaluating a dairy ration - what do the letters TDN stand for?
Negative net energy balance
Total Digestible Nutrients
A minimum of every 6 months
Cryoscope
6. To the hundreth - how many pounds of milk are in a gallon?
The initiation of milk secretion
Pastuerized Milk Ordinance
Plant starch - pectin - and sugar
8.62 pounds
7. Body condition scores form 1 to 5 are used to track herd health and nutrition. Dry cows should have a body score from...
Large Plastic Bags
25%
3.5-4.0
100
8. If the heat detection rate is 30% and the conception rate is 30% - What is the pregnancy rate?
9%
Lignin
Brucellosis
Attract the opposite sex
9. What is the accepted standard length for a lactation record in dairy cattle?
NAtional Research Council
305 days
National Farmers Organization
Relative Forage Value
10. A cow with high lactation persistence is important for a dairy's economic success. Lactation persistency is...
MyDairy
Reduce the incidence of mastitis
Cows Milk production this month divided by production last month X 100
75-79.9
11. What manure waste management method runs manure across a press and squeezes the water out?
Copper
Solids removal
Lignin
Cystic
12. What are two methods for shortening udder hair?
Mule-foot
Total Production Index
Jersey
Clipping and singeing
13. What are the two types of ovarian cysts?
Nonstructural Carbohydrates
Follicular and luteal
Allowing them access to their new born calf for the 1st 30 days
Arteries
14. A bovine female which has not had a calf is a...
Heifer
% Degradable proteins
Flank
2.25
15. Ways to avoid milk fever in cows
Feed low potassium hay - silage - and anionic salts to dry cows
Pink eye
United States Dairy Export Council
Manure handling procedures
16. The rumen of a cow is located...
Left side of the body
80
50-80%
Mycobacterium bovis
17. In what year did the Holstein Association start its program of recording carriers of Undesirable Recessive Traits?
1957
Oxytocin
Pulsator
Water
18. What pathway in youg calves direct milk into the abomasum - bypassing the rumen - reticulum - and omasum?
Swollen hock
282 days
Esophageal groove
24
19. What percent of dry matter in plants is made of carbohydrates?
75%
Mule-foot
Prevent ingested metal objects from interfering with the digestive tract or the respiratory system
Mycotoxins
20. A condition of low blood calcium - which results in partial paralysis of the cow is known as __________________.
Milk fever
60
Water
Longer than 1.5 inches
21. In cows - salmonellosis infections are most common in those that have calved within __________.
High % of water
10 days
Rump
Duodenum
22. Milk sugars are not very soluble. Some people have difficulty hydrolyzing them in their bodies. This problem is called _________________.
Lignin
Parturient paresis
Follicular and luteal
Lactose intolerance
23. Where are non-degradable proteins absorbed?
Brown Swiss
Small Intestine
Mycobacterium Paratuberculosis
Sodium Bicarbonate
24. Which mineral functions in maintaining osmotic pressure - acid-base balance - and body fluid balance?
Good plus
Vitamin K
Feed
Sodium
25. If you add sugar to a milk product - you must ______ the minimum pasteurization temperature by _____ degrees F.
Increase - 5
70%
General Agreement on Tariff and Trade
2.25
26. To maintain margins - you should be monitoring and making decisions based on your herd's IOFC. What do the initials IOFC stand for?
Direct Microscopic Counts
Income over feed costs
6 hours
30 hours
27. What structural carbohydrate component makes older plants less digestible than younger plants?
Nonstructural Carbohydrates
Omasum
Lignin
Corpus Luteum
28. FARAD
Fat residue
Direct Microscopic Counts
Food Animal Residue Avoidance Databank
Subclinical
29. Dairy herds have historically used artificial insemination. Currently approximately ____________% of all dairy pregnancies results from A.I.
Preparing cows properly
85
40 degrees F
Recessive
30. Dairy cows need roughage to concentrate ratio of approximately ______________ to maintain the desired fat content in the milk.
Copper sulfate
Four or more times
40/60
Heifer
31. Corn silage stored in sealed upright silos should be ensiled at what moisture?
Holstein
300 + degree
Holstein
No less than 60% moisture
32. How often will HACCP inspect each Dairy Farm?
A minimum of every 6 months
Pasteurizing system
Percentage of Difficult Births in Heifers
Back flushing
33. The major advantage of a 'low-line' milk line as compared to the older 'high-line' is...
It has a lower vacuum requirement
Citrate
Water
Feeding the cow
34. A perfect score for a cow according to the Dairy Cow Unified Score Card is...
100
Two weeks prior to calving
Subclinical
Pasteurizing system
35. To the hundreth - how many pounds of milk are in a gallon?
Sire conception rate
40 gallons
Allowing them access to their new born calf for the 1st 30 days
8.62 pounds
36. BVD
Loin and chine
300 + degree
Bovine Viral Diarrhea
20 to 24
37. Name the three common places Coliforms are found.
Swollen hock
Mud - water - and manure
2:1
6 hours
38. When using sexed semen - conception rates are _________ percent of the conception rates achieved when using unsexed semen under the same conditions?
Cryoscope
Longer than 1.5 inches
50-80%
Cation-Anion Difference
39. The Global Dairy Agenda for Action is a pledge to reduce _______ emissions in an attempt to address global warming?
15 months
Carbon
Decreases - increases
3-6 minutes
40. Fear can disrupt milk letdown in a cow. The hormone released that causes this disruption is...
Foreign Agricultural Service
Udder
40 degrees F
Epinephrine
41. What is the hormone that causes Uterine contractions to assist in parturition?
Between 6.0 and 6.5
70%
National Milk Producers Federation
Oxytocin
42. The medical name tarsal hygroma - a commonaliment of dairy cows is commonly called...
Large intestines
Milk fever
4 years
Swollen hock
43. What bacterium causes cattle tuberculosis (TB)?
A national dairy farmer-funded program that is used to help stabilize milk prices
Nitrogen excretion
Mycobacterium bovis
Swollen hock
44. What is the most abundant mineral in the body?
Total Mixed Ration
Guernsey and Jersey
Calcium
PGF
45. Which part of an animal touches the ground if he/she is walking on a correct set of feet and legs?
20-30%
Brown Swiss
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.
Sole
46. What are the four composite indexes calculated by the Holstein Association?
40/60
Mud - water - and manure
Faster
Udder - feet and legs - body form - & dairy character
47. What do nonstructural carbohydrates consist of?
750000
12-14 weeks
Plant starch - pectin - and sugar
Twelve
48. To maintain margins - you should be monitoring and making decisions based on your herd's IOFC. What do the initials IOFC stand for?
50 percent
25 gallons
Income over feed costs
Cryoscope
49. The most costly form of mastitis is?
Pink eye
Symbiotic
A negatively charged ion
Subclinical
50. In a cow - where would you find the alveolus?
Udder
Oxytocin
After 55 days
Milking Shorthorn