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Dairy Cattle Basics
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1. What combines the Predicted Transmitting Ability for protein - fat - type and udder composite index and ranks the animal on its ability to transmit a balance of these four traits
305 days
Potassium
Total Production Index
Black leg
2. Which of the following is an infectious disease?
Sodium
Poor
Udder
Ringworm
3. The most common pathogen found in raw milk is...
1
Inguinal
Escherichia coli
Cheddar cheese
4. In dairy cows - What is the name of the disease caused by the organisms Staph Aureus - Strep Uberis - and Klebsiella?
Mastitis
Dairy character
Magnesium
Cheese
5. BFP
Copper sulfate
Rump
After 200 days of lactation
Basic Formula Price
6. Which of the following diseases is not caused by a virus?
Loin and chine
During the first pregnancy
Laminitis
6 hours
7. Producers using BST must give their cows an injection of it every...
Registered Holstein Ancestry
14 days
60 days
20-30%
8. Pest Predators will travel up to ____ yards to find their food source (fly pupae).
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.
80
Integrated pest management
Large Plastic Bags
9. What is the accepted standard length for a lactation record in dairy cattle?
The influence of the sire of the cow on calving ease
Inguinal
14 days
305 days
10. The hormone BST is given to dairy cows...
High % of water
Extremely fat
After 200 days of lactation
Disbudding
11. Which one of the following is the largest dairy milk marketing cooperative in the U.S.?
Feed
Large intestines
Vitamin A
Dairy Farmers of America (DFA)
12. Many dairies place bands on their cows necks or feet - with black boxes containing electronic I.D. - production - management information. These units are called...
Rolling Herd Average
Transponders
MyDairy
5
13. What are two methods for shortening udder hair?
Loin and chine
Modified Live Virus
Cows Milk production this month divided by production last month X 100
Clipping and singeing
14. A ____________ is usually necessary when feeding Dairy Cows TMR rations.
Twelve
Prevent ingested metal objects from interfering with the digestive tract or the respiratory system
25%
Mixer box on a truck or trailer
15. What ration ingredients contain the highest concentration of energy?
Methane
60
Fats
Food Animal Residue Avoidance Databank
16. A ____________gene in Black and White Holsteins is responsible for the red and white color being expressed at times...
Limber leg
Milk fever
Bone calcium
Recessive
17. Blood vessels that transport blood away from the heart are called...
Prussic acid poisoning
The abomasums of a milk fed calf
Digital Dermatitis
Arteries
18. The portion of the ruminant digestive system which consists of many folds of tissue is the...
NAtional Research Council
Nitrogen
Omasum
Energy
19. Crude fiber in a dietary ration must be at least ___% or milk fat percent will decrease.
Administered via blood vessels
National Farmers Organization
Water
18
20. What is the scientific term for birth?
Oxytocin
Brown Swiss
Manure handling procedures
Parturtion
21. If you add sugar to a milk product - you must ______ the minimum pasteurization temperature by _____ degrees F.
Increase - 5
Reduce the incidence of mastitis
Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
Lactose intolerance
22. What are the two types of ovarian cysts?
NAtional Research Council
50
Follicular and luteal
Oxytocin
23. What percent moisture should corn silage be chopped at when stored in horizontal bunker silos or bags?
The bottom most part of the tail
70% moisture
8.62 pounds
Progesterone
24. Dairy herds have historically used artificial insemination. Currently approximately ____________% of all dairy pregnancies results from A.I.
Sodium
Mycotoxins
85
50-80%
25. The standard length of the dry period in dairy cattle is ________?
Rolling Herd Average
Relative Forage Value
60 days
40/60
26. Texas dairies normally must be permitted by the ___________before they begin operations.
Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
Streptococus agalactae
Between 14 and 35 days
Percentage of Difficult Births in Heifers
27. What manure waste management method runs manure across a press and squeezes the water out?
Solids removal
Total Digestible Nutrients
Administered under the skin
Swollen hock
28. In the standard protocol for cleaning milking equipment - which of the following is not one of the four phases of cleaning?
100%
45-55
Back flushing
Milk on Demand
29. What percent of lactating dairy cows have oxytocin in their bloodstreams during milking?
Oxytocin
100%
Mycotoxins
Sole
30. What state agency regulates waste management?
Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
25%
A minimum of every 6 months
20000000
31. When evaluating a dairy ration - what do the letters TDN stand for?
24
Low blood levvels of ionized calcium
Total Digestible Nutrients
Good plus
32. Producers using BST must give their cows an injection of it every...
14 days
85
Modified Live Virus
Feed low potassium hay - silage - and anionic salts to dry cows
33. When referring to milk test used at the processing plant - What is a DMC?
Composting
Direct Microscopic Counts
Food safety and Inspection Service
4 years
34. Which part of an animal touches the ground if he/she is walking on a correct set of feet and legs?
100%
Methane
Citrate
Sole
35. The major advantage of a 'low-line' milk line as compared to the older 'high-line' is...
5
Two weeks prior to calving
It has a lower vacuum requirement
Vitamin B
36. Parallel milk barns typically have several cows on each side. The cows are arranged in a ____________ fashion in this barn.
60
Once every 12 months
Side by side (head out)
30%
37. A very popular dairy management software in Texas is...
Disbudding
Dairy Comp 305
14 days
Methane
38. What should the pH of a 'close up' Holstein's urine be?
Between 6.0 and 6.5
3.0
.39%
Decreases - increases
39. Dairy cows need roughage to concentrate ratio of approximately ______________ to maintain the desired fat content in the milk.
40/60
3 years
After 200 days of lactation
Water
40. The condition in which the cow is giving more milk than nutrients that she is consuming in feed is called...
20-30%
A national dairy farmer-funded program that is used to help stabilize milk prices
5-9 years old
Negative net energy balance
41. To maintain margins - you should be monitoring and making decisions based on your herd's IOFC. What do the initials IOFC stand for?
Increase - 5
Income over feed costs
8.62 pounds
Clipping and singeing
42. At how many days can pregnancy be detected by palpation?
Lactose intolerance
Between 14 and 35 days
To give birth
Corpus Luteum
43. Corn silage stored in sealed upright silos should be ensiled at what moisture?
Once every 12 months
Pulsator
No less than 60% moisture
Ringworm
44. Which dairy breed originated in the central part of the European continent?
Listeria
Brown Swiss
Restraint and control of the animal
The cows leave the milkers via an alley wide enough to allow 2 or more cows side by side
45. What manure waste management method runs manure across a press and squeezes the water out?
3-6 minutes
Solids removal
Progesterone
Mycobacterium Paratuberculosis
46. Rotary Parlors or Carousel milk barns have the advantage of being ________________ when compared to other type barns.
75-79.9
Hardware disease
Faster
90-100
47. The most costly form of mastitis is?
Subclinical
20
Niacin
5
48. A bovine female which has not had a calf is a...
A negatively charged ion
Heifer
Mastitis
PGF
49. Which of the following is not a commonly usedestrus synchronization program for dairy cattle?
Basic Formula Price
Post-synch
Once every 12 months
Follicular and luteal
50. When looking at DHI records - what do the letters RHA stand for?
60 days
Reduce the incidence of mastitis
40 degrees F
Rolling Herd Average
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