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Dairy Cattle Basics
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. dairy cow may not reach her highest milk yield until she is...
Heifer
Listeria
5-9 years old
Zinc
2. What ration ingredients contain the highest concentration of energy?
United States Dairy Export Council
Sodium Bicarbonate
Cheese
Fats
3. BST is the acronym for what compound?
Copper sulfate
Allowing them access to their new born calf for the 1st 30 days
Bovine Somatotropin
6 hours
4. Which one of the following describes biotin?
Digestive
A B-Vitamin
% Protein
Post-synch
5. 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).
Cation-Anion Difference
Guernsey and Jersey
5
Two times
6. Which major dairy breed association was the first to use computers to maintain breed registry records?
The influence of the sire of the cow on calving ease
Guernsey
Farm Service Agency
Milk fever
7. dairy cow may not reach her highest milk yield until she is...
5-9 years old
Rear feet and legs
Calcium
10%
8. Fresh milk - at a dairy - is required to be cooled to a minimum of 50 degrees F within 4 hours time after milking. However many larger dairies are using a _______________ to accomplish this within minutes.
Food safety and Inspection Service
After each use
10
Plate chiller
9. On average - how many weekd after freshening does a cow's dry matter intake peak?
9%
Sole
12-14 weeks
25
10. What hormone is responsible for maintaining pregnancy?
2000's
Jersey
60 days
Progesterone
11. What is the USDA's AIPL?
Animal Improvement Program Lab
Zinc
Nitrogen
The bottom most part of the tail
12. What mineral is necessary for hemoglobin formation?
Limber leg
Blind quarter
Leukocytes
Copper
13. Crude fiber in a dietary ration must be at least ___% or milk fat percent will decrease.
Claw
18
5
Cystic
14. If a dairy bull has been genetically tested to determine his genomic make-up - this will be indicated on his pedigree by what letters?
Dairy character
5
GTPI
Plant starch - pectin - and sugar
15. High potassium intake will decrease a cows ability to mobilize what?
Bone calcium
Reduce the incidence of mastitis
Pulsator
The bacteria Escherichia Coli
16. 'Weaver Syndrome' is most often found in the _______________dairy breed?
Brown Swiss
Faster
Integrated pest management
2:1
17. Approximately how many gallons of blood pass through the udder for each gallon of milk produced?
Nonfat Dry Milk
Listeria
18
400‐500 gallons
18. At how many days can pregnancy be detected by palpation?
9 weeks
Hormones
Between 14 and 35 days
Front feet toward rear of the cow with head - nose first - between them
19. When looking at DHI records - what do the letters RHA stand for?
Citrate
Rolling Herd Average
Pasteurizing system
30 hours
20. How frequently should an average freshen?
5
6 hours
Once every 12 months
Collecting the methane gas being produced and using it as an energy source on the dairy
21. 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
Total Production Index
Food Animal Residue Avoidance Databank
Holstein
Vibriosis
22. The typical lactation curve shows a dairy cow reaching her peak production about ________days into the lactation cycle.
A minimum of every 6 months
50-70
45-55
Jersey
23. FSA
Reduce the incidence of mastitis
Farm Service Agency
Two times
3.0
24. In the reproductive tract of a dairy cow - how many uterine horns are there?
Two
Total Production Index
Mud - water - and manure
20
25. 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.
282 days
5000000
Energy
400 pounds
26. When is the best time to feed anionic salts to dairy cows?
Decreases - increases
Parathyroid gland
Administered under the skin
Two weeks prior to calving
27. Milk should be below what temperature before it is transferred to a milk truck?
Abomasum
40 degrees F
Lignin
Omasum
28. What mineral is necessary for hemoglobin formation?
NAtional Research Council
Copper
80
Laminitis
29. Where are structural carbohydrates found in the plant?
Decreases - increases
Listeria
In the cell wall
Oxytocin
30. 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?
Between 6.0 and 6.5
Water
Sodium
Digestive
31. Almost 95% of the dairy cows in the U.S. are...
Percentage of Difficult Births in Heifers
Methane
Epinephrine
Holstein
32. When a small metal object punctures the stomach wall and causes an infection - the resulting disease is called____________________.
5-9 years old
Milking Shorthorn
Hardware disease
Manure handling procedures
33. This vitamin plays a role in the coagulation of blood...
Vitamin K
The initiation of milk secretion
Vitamin A
Vitamin A
34. Mule-foot is found most often in ___________dairy breed?
A national dairy farmer-funded program that is used to help stabilize milk prices
During the first pregnancy
3-6 minutes
Holstein
35. Allelomimetic behavior is defined as...
Predicted Transmitting Ability-Type
80
14 days
The tendency for a group of animals to do the same thing at the same time
36. Cattle grazing stressed on wilted hybrid sorghum/Johnson grass type pasture - may die as a result of ________________.
MyDairy
Prussic acid poisoning
Jersey
Two weeks prior to calving
37. If there are large numbers of flies around the dairy barn - what should be the first thing to be examined in an attempt to solve the fly problem?
Total Mixed Ration
Restraint and control of the animal
Manure handling procedures
20-30%
38. Fresh milk - at a dairy - is required to be cooled to a minimum of 50 degrees F within 4 hours time after milking. However many larger dairies are using a _______________ to accomplish this within minutes.
45-55
Plate chiller
Food safety and Inspection Service
Heat detection and conception rates
39. What does the term freshen mean in relation the dairy production?
Composting
Methane
Urea
To give birth
40. When discussing lactation records - What does the term 'fat corrected milk' mean?
Milk fever
Lactation records have been adjusted to the same milk fat percentage
Animal Improvement Program Lab
Recessive
41. Neospora caninum is a major cause of what in pregnant cows?
Abortion
Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation
It is not necessary to supplement the intake of Vitamin B complex
Large intestines
42. On the PDCA Unified Dairy Score Card - the category 'dairy strength' accounts for how many points?
Milk on Demand
Dairy character
25
NAtional Research Council
43. Which mineral is found in high concentrations in soft tissues such as the pancreas - liver - and kidney?
75%
Jersey
Zinc
Relative Forage Value
44. What is the classification for a Holstein cow given the numerical value 80-84.9?
Good plus
Nitrogen excretion
Large Plastic Bags
Sodium Bicarbonate
45. A switch on a cow is...
Omasum
Methane
Food Animal Residue Avoidance Databank
The bottom most part of the tail
46. What is another term for the lowest lateral regions of the abdomen - near the groin?
Inguinal
Water
90-100
Bangs
47. 98% of somatic cells are...
Milking Shorthorn
Animal Improvement Program Lab
Leukocytes
85
48. After insemination - how long do sperm live in the cow's reproductive tract?
Small Intestine
24 hours
Hormones
Dished
49. Which compartment of a dairy cow's stomach is located closest to the heart and it is a spot where hardware disease occurs?
40 degrees F
Reticulum
50-80%
2.25
50. USAHA
Corpus Luteum
Large intestines
You S Animal Health Association
Laminitis