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Dairy Cattle Basics

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1. The condition in which the cow is giving more milk than nutrients that she is consuming in feed is called...
20000000
Negative net energy balance
Rumen
Basic Formula Price

2. Which one of the following describes biotin?
50 percent
A B-Vitamin
Leukocytes
Between 14 and 35 days

3. Foot Rot is scientifically known as what?
Relative Forage Value
Sterile heifer born twin to a bull
Interdigital phlegmon
Fats

4. Normal presentation of a calf for parturition will have...
Swollen hock
Front feet toward rear of the cow with head - nose first - between them
Swollen hock
Gonadotropin Releasing Hormone

5. A condition of low blood calcium - which results in partial paralysis of the cow is known as __________________.
Nonstructural Carbohydrates
Milk fever
50 percent
Mud - water - and manure

6. Which one of the following is the name of the part of the cow's back that lies between the withers and the loin?
50 percent
Two
Milking Shorthorn
Chine

7. 'Weaver Syndrome' is most often found in the _______________dairy breed?
General Agreement on Tariff and Trade
45-55
Brown Swiss
2:1

8. What trait with the only positive genetic correlation to milk production?
Two times
20
Dairy character
Reduce the incidence of mastitis

9. Cheddar cheese accounts for ____ % of American type cheeses made in the U.S.
80
Lignin
Water
400 pounds

10. What pathway in youg calves direct milk into the abomasum - bypassing the rumen - reticulum - and omasum?
87%
30 hours
60 days
Esophageal groove

11. After a bulk tank is washed and rinsed - beading of water droplets is a sign of _____.
Post-synch
Epinephrine
Fat residue
20-30%

12. What is a cation?
Parallels out performed herringbones by nearly 8%
A positively charged ion
Extremely fat
Good plus

13. The top most part of a cow's head is called the...
Guernsey
Poll
Between 6.0 and 6.5
Udder - feet and legs - body form - & dairy character

14. Which hormone produced by the uterus causes regression of the corpus luteum?
Mastitis
PGF
Sole
A positively charged ion

15. What bacterium causes Johne's disease in cattle?
Mycobacterium Paratuberculosis
Mud - water - and manure
3 years
Progesterone

16. Feeding proper rations during the summer is important for both cow comfort and maintaining milk production. Which nutrient is most important during the summer months?
Abomasum
International Dairy Foods Associactions
Propionic acid
Water

17. What is lactogenesis?
Net Energy
The initiation of milk secretion
Inguinal
Hormones

18. FSA
Farm Service Agency
Total Production Index
The bacteria Escherichia Coli
72

19. Pest Predators will travel up to ____ yards to find their food source (fly pupae).
Laminitis
Integrated pest management
24 hours
80

20. Cows have _____ streak canals per teat.
Lactation records have been adjusted to the same milk fat percentage
Dairy character
1
Feeding the cow

21. What is the classification for a Holstein cow given the numerical value of less than 70?
Mycotoxins
Large intestines
Poor
Rumen

22. What is the most abundant mineral in the body?
To give birth
Fat residue
The influence of the sire of the cow on calving ease
Calcium

23. Which of the following is an infectious disease?
Ringworm
Parturtion
10%
Corpus Luteum

24. FAS
To add a concentrated form of energy
Foreign Agricultural Service
Milk on Demand
It has a lower vacuum requirement

25. When discussing nutrition - What does NPN stand for?
Laminitis
Parturient paresis
A positively charged ion
Nonprotein nitrogen

26. If the freezing point of a sample of raw milk is above 30 degrees F this indicates...
Plate chiller
5
Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation
High % of water

27. Which body part is located more towards the front of the animal?
Flank
Hardware disease
Administered via blood vessels
90-100

28. A mutation where calves have little or no control over the movement of their legs is called...
MyDairy
Brucellosis
Energy
Limber leg

29. Manure management is a major concern for most modern - large-scale dairies. The newest management techniques being used involve...
Cheddar cheese
Alfalfa and Clover
Collecting the methane gas being produced and using it as an energy source on the dairy
Lignin

30. When sanitizing milking equipment with water - the temperature must be a minimum of 170 degrees F and the utensils are to be under the flow of water for ____________ minute(s).
Allowing them access to their new born calf for the 1st 30 days
Relative Forage Value
Udder
5

31. Dairy cattle where first successfully cloned in the_______________.

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32. An average Holstein cow should give _______ pounds per day for each lactation.
Listeria
50
Administered in the muscle
XY

33. The portion of the milker unit that first receives the milk as it is withdrawn from the cow is the...
Claw
3 years
Body weight
Holstein

34. 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?
Omasum
In the cell wall
Allowing them access to their new born calf for the 1st 30 days
100

35. A ____________ is usually necessary when feeding Dairy Cows TMR rations.
Sire conception rate
Mixer box on a truck or trailer
Composting
Reduce the incidence of mastitis

36. The portion of the ruminant digestive system which is known as and functions as the 'true' stomach is the...
30%
Gonadotropin Releasing Hormone
Carbon
Abomasum

37. What is intra musclular injection?
Twice/day
Corpus Luteum
Poor
Administered in the muscle

38. Which of the following diseases is not caused by a virus?
Mastitis
Laminitis
Basic Formula Price
The cows leave the milkers via an alley wide enough to allow 2 or more cows side by side

39. According to the American Veterinary Medicine Association - the preferred method of dehorning young calves is_________.
Disbudding
The bottom most part of the tail
Udder
When it is proven that she will breed

40. In what year did the Holstein Association start its program of recording carriers of Undesirable Recessive Traits?
Zinc
Reproductive failure
Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
1957

41. In order to prevent bloat - the feed additive Poloxalene is often added to feed rations for cows that are grazing. Which of the following grazed forages are most likely to cause bloat?
Holstein
North American Free Trade Agreement
Alfalfa and Clover
3-6 minutes

42. In regards to dairy production RHA refers to...
Sole
Rolling Herd Average
Zinc
Udder

43. Fermented forage plants relates to...
The bacteria Escherichia Coli
Silage
Predicted Transmitting Ability-Type
Symbiotic

44. Bovine Progressive Degenerative Myeloencephalopathy (BPDME) is better known as Weaver Syndrome because of...
Urea
The weaving gait of affected cattle
A B-Vitamin
Inguinal

45. Foot Rot is scientifically known as what?
Bangs
Interdigital phlegmon
Food Animal Residue Avoidance Databank
Fat residue

46. What is a common name for infectious kerato conjunctivitis?
During the first pregnancy
Pink eye
It is not necessary to supplement the intake of Vitamin B complex
80

47. EU
European Union
General Agreement on Tariff and Trade
Reticulum
40/60

48. Ways to avoid milk fever in cows
Feed low potassium hay - silage - and anionic salts to dry cows
PH 4.6
20
101.5 degrees F

49. According to the American Veterinary Medicine Association - the preferred method of dehorning young calves is_________.
Premis ID
Disbudding
Twelve
20000000

50. BFP
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.
Basic Formula Price
Mule-foot
Non-forage Carbohydrates

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