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Dairy Cattle Basics
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1. On average - how many weekd after freshening does a cow's dry matter intake peak?
Abomasum
12-14 weeks
Ringworm
10 days
2. A ____________gene in Black and White Holsteins is responsible for the red and white color being expressed at times...
Recessive
80
50 percent
20 to 24
3. When compared to normal corn silage - brown mid-rib corn silage has more energy and high digestibility. This is due largely to its lower content of__________.
87%
Bovine Somatotropin
80
Lignin
4. Manure management is a major concern for most modern - large-scale dairies. The newest management techniques being used involve...
Administered in the muscle
Collecting the methane gas being produced and using it as an energy source on the dairy
Pink eye
Udder
5. Jersey cattle are characterized by having a ______________ face...
Dished
Bangs
Bovine Viral Diarrhea
Prevent ingested metal objects from interfering with the digestive tract or the respiratory system
6. HTST is a ______________
Vitamin B
18
Pasteurizing system
Hormones
7. Generally - high-producing Holsteins eat ___________ pounds of dry matter per day?
45-55
Pastuerized Milk Ordinance
Foreign Agricultural Service
Bangs
8. BFP
Basic Formula Price
Once every 12 months
Rump
Feed
9. What is Milk Fever paresis caused by?
Low blood levvels of ionized calcium
Parathyroid gland
Progesterone
Total Production Index
10. The major advantage of a 'low-line' milk line as compared to the older 'high-line' is...
Bovine Viral Diarrhea
North American Free Trade Agreement
Preparing cows properly
It has a lower vacuum requirement
11. When does the greatest mammary tissue growth occur during a cow's life?
282 days
During the first pregnancy
The bottom most part of the tail
It has a lower vacuum requirement
12. Each animal inherits certain genes from both parents. What percentage of genes does a calf receive from its sire?
Flank
50 percent
Pink eye
80
13. Lactation is unique to _________.
Twice/day
Mammals
Vitamin A
Enteritis
14. The medical name tarsal hygroma - a commonaliment of dairy cows is commonly called...
Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation
United States Dairy Export Council
Swollen hock
Parturtion
15. What describes the fraction of the ration proteins - which is broken down by digestive enzymes and utilized by rumen bacteria?
50
% Degradable proteins
Calories
A B-Vitamin
16. High potassium intake will decrease a cows ability to mobilize what?
30 hours
Bone calcium
Preparing cows properly
Displaced abomasum
17. According to recent USDA surveys - What is the most popular age to wean dairy calves?
Fats
Digestive
9 weeks
Retained placenta
18. USDEC
Rump
Dished
United States Dairy Export Council
Left side of the body
19. NFO
Propionic acid
Heat detection and conception rates
The bottom most part of the tail
National Farmers Organization
20. How much more energy do fats contain per unit the carbohydrates and proteins?
Gonadotropin Releasing Hormone
Pass from animals to humans and vice versa
2.25
Registered Holstein Ancestry
21. When feeding close-up cows a calcium deficient diet - which gland is simulated?
101.5 degrees F
Milking Shorthorn
400 pounds
Parathyroid gland
22. The two U.S. dairy breeds that originated in the Channel Islands off the coast of France are...
Prevent ingested metal objects from interfering with the digestive tract or the respiratory system
The bottom most part of the tail
Side by side (head out)
Guernsey and Jersey
23. New computerized robotic milk stations are becoming a reality today. They have different names but one common one is MOD system. MOD means...
Increase - 5
Prevent ingested metal objects from interfering with the digestive tract or the respiratory system
Milk on Demand
Food Animal Residue Avoidance Databank
24. What state agency regulates waste management?
Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
Abomasum
35 to 40%
Vitamin A
25. The top most part of a cow's head is called the...
Poll
% Degradable proteins
30%
750000
26. This vitamin plays a role in the coagulation of blood...
Vitamin K
Mycobacterium Paratuberculosis
Pulsator
Fat
27. Dairy cows produce milk that is relatively high in B complex vitamins. Because they are ruminants...
Small Intestine
Omasum
.39%
It is not necessary to supplement the intake of Vitamin B complex
28. Cheddar cheese accounts for ____ % of American type cheeses made in the U.S.
80
Cheese
20000000
The initiation of milk secretion
29. The topline of a cow is made up of the...
Loin and chine
400‐500 gallons
North American Free Trade Agreement
400 pounds
30. Dairy rations - especially those for high producing cows - may be buffered to maintain a desirable rumen pH. The most common buffering agent for this is...
5000000
Body weight
Sodium Bicarbonate
Lactation records have been adjusted to the same milk fat percentage
31. The hooks and pins on an animal relate most closely to the...
Parturient paresis
Rump
Parallels out performed herringbones by nearly 8%
When it is proven that she will breed
32. A mutation where calves have little or no control over the movement of their legs is called...
Cows Milk production this month divided by production last month X 100
Limber leg
Vitamin A
Twelve
33. Proponents of global warming having accused cows of being a major factor. This is due to their release of...
72
4 years
Carbon Dioxide Gas
Udder
34. %DBH
Listeria
PGF
Holstein
Percentage of Difficult Births in Heifers
35. How frequently should an average freshen?
Streptococus agalactae
Solids removal
Brown Swiss
Once every 12 months
36. What describes the fraction of the ration proteins - which is broken down by digestive enzymes and utilized by rumen bacteria?
% Degradable proteins
No less than 60% moisture
Calories
10%
37. What trait with the only positive genetic correlation to milk production?
Dairy character
Magnesium
Omasum
National Farmers Organization
38. What acid is formed when nonstructural carbohydrates are digested in the rumen?
Retained placenta
Propionic acid
Abortion
2000's
39. What is the hormone that causes Uterine contractions to assist in parturition?
Two times
60 days
Parathyroid gland
Oxytocin
40. Manure digesters convert _______________ fuel into electricity.
Bangs
Mycobacterium bovis
Methane
Negative net energy balance
41. NRC
Blind quarter
Parathyroid gland
International Dairy Foods Associactions
NAtional Research Council
42. Texas dairies normally must be permitted by the ___________before they begin operations.
100%
Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
8.62 pounds
Fats
43. 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.
Dished
Side by side (head out)
400 pounds
Parathyroid gland
44. What percent of the cows feed intake is consumed during the daylight hours?
70%
Plate chiller
Niacin
Two times
45. Cow comfort has been linked to milk production in numerous research studies. Not an example of a way to improve cow comfort used by dairymen?
Intravenous injection of calcium gluconate
Large Plastic Bags
Allowing them access to their new born calf for the 1st 30 days
Brucellosis
46. ___________ represents the largest daily input cost in producing milk.
750000
Holstein
Small intestine
Feed
47. Milk fever is also (scientifically) known as what?
Parturient paresis
Bovine Viral Diarrhea
Net Energy
The abomasums of a milk fed calf
48. Where are structural carbohydrates found in the plant?
Side by side (head out)
In the cell wall
Large intestines
Guernsey
49. Rotary Parlors or Carousel milk barns have the advantage of being ________________ when compared to other type barns.
12-14 weeks
Faster
Heifer
8.62 pounds
50. Which reproductive condition results when the fetal membranes remain within the uterus for an extended period following parturition?
Calcium
Holstein
5
Retained placenta