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Dairy Cattle Basics

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1. Dairy herds have historically used artificial insemination. Currently approximately ____________% of all dairy pregnancies results from A.I.
Esophageal groove
Digital Dermatitis
4 years
85

2. Which dairy breed's milk is golden-yellow in color?
Guernsey
15 months
30%
The weaving gait of affected cattle

3. Where are non-degradable proteins absorbed?
Left side of the body
4 years
Solids removal
Small Intestine

4. A bovine female which has not had a calf is a...
Cation-Anion Difference
Heifer
Fat residue
305 days

5. On the PDCA Unified Dairy Score Card - the category 'dairy strength' accounts for how many points?
Parturtion
25
5-9 years old
Neutral Detergent Fiber

6. What is a TMR to a dairy person?
Epinephrine
When it is proven that she will breed
Rear feet and legs
Total Mixed Ration

7. If a dairy bull has been genetically tested to determine his genomic make-up - this will be indicated on his pedigree by what letters?
GTPI
Niacin
Food Animal Residue Avoidance Databank
Total Digestible Nutrients

8. Dry cows need 0.8 percent K in their diet. What element is K?
Very good
Potassium
Retained placenta
It has a lower vacuum requirement

9. PTAT
Carbon
Predicted Transmitting Ability-Type
Lactose intolerance
High-producing pregnant cows

10. The source of rennet (a substance used in cheese making) is...
25 gallons
1957
Corpus Luteum
The abomasums of a milk fed calf

11. 'Weaver Syndrome' is most often found in the _______________dairy breed?
Brown Swiss
To add a concentrated form of energy
Decreases - increases
After 55 days

12. What is an anion?
A negatively charged ion
A B-Vitamin
Negative net energy balance
Sole

13. Proponents of global warming having accused cows of being a major factor. This is due to their release of...
25%
Arteries
Carbon Dioxide Gas
.39%

14. What do nonstructural carbohydrates consist of?
It has a lower vacuum requirement
Plant starch - pectin - and sugar
Fat
A minimum of every 6 months

15. 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.
Plate chiller
Mud - water - and manure
Milk on Demand
Commodity Credit Corporation

16. Which major dairy breed association was the first to use computers to maintain breed registry records?
Cryoscope
Udder
Guernsey
A minimum of every 6 months

17. A disease causing air bubbles under the skin and usually results in rapid death is __________.
Black leg
Rump
Arteries
Twelve

18. What should the pH of a 'close up' Holstein's urine be?
Small intestine
Between 6.0 and 6.5
Pastuerized Milk Ordinance
Calories

19. What structural carbohydrate component makes older plants less digestible than younger plants?
Reduce the incidence of mastitis
Lignin
PH 4.6
Digestive

20. What is the scientific term for birth?
Reticulum
Parallels out performed herringbones by nearly 8%
Feed
Parturtion

21. When referring to milk test used at the processing plant - What is a DMC?
Dairy Comp 305
Stainless steel
Fat
Direct Microscopic Counts

22. What are structural carbohydrates made of?
Cellulose - hemicellulose - and lignin
Progesterone
Food Animal Residue Avoidance Databank
Between 6.0 and 6.5

23. What percent of the cows feed intake is consumed during the daylight hours?
Cheese
70%
Silage
Inguinal

24. One ejaculation from a bull typically contains _________________ sperm
5000000
Twice/day
Restraint and control of the animal
Administered under the skin

25. What breed is known to produce milk over a greater number of years than all other breeds?
Sodium
Administered via blood vessels
40/60
Brown Swiss

26. The topline of a cow is made up of the...
Pulsator
50 percent
Loin and chine
Post-synch

27. Allelomimetic behavior is defined as...
You S Animal Health Association
The tendency for a group of animals to do the same thing at the same time
Net Energy
Feed

28. When examining feed rations - what do the letters NDF stand for?
Intravenous injection of calcium gluconate
Abortion
Udder
Neutral Detergent Fiber

29. dairy cow may not reach her highest milk yield until she is...
5-9 years old
Two
3.5-4.0
Digital Dermatitis

30. FAS
Laminitis
Foreign Agricultural Service
Farm Service Agency
Abomasum

31. IPM
Integrated pest management
Food Animal Residue Avoidance Databank
25%
They may be bothersome to livestock and other animals

32. How often will HACCP inspect each Dairy Farm?
A minimum of every 6 months
14 days
Rear feet and legs
5-9 years old

33. Milk sugars are not very soluble. Some people have difficulty hydrolyzing them in their bodies. This problem is called _________________.
Modified Live Virus
Commodity Credit Corporation
Heat detection and conception rates
Lactose intolerance

34. In regards to pedigrees - What is a RHA?
750000
Registered Holstein Ancestry
Retained placenta
Carbon

35. Blood vessels that transport blood away from the heart are called...
Dairy character
Arteries
3.0
Administered via blood vessels

36. What is the hormone that causes Uterine contractions to assist in parturition?
Disbudding
Jersey
Oxytocin
Allowing them access to their new born calf for the 1st 30 days

37. According to the NRC - what percent calcium should a dry cow ration contain?
87%
Mud - water - and manure
Udder - feet and legs - body form - & dairy character
.39%

38. Which one of the following is NOT classified as a water soluble-vitamin?
60
Vitamin A
It is not necessary to supplement the intake of Vitamin B complex
50-70

39. Dairy Farmers frequently place a stomach magnet into their cows to...
Mastitis
Prevent ingested metal objects from interfering with the digestive tract or the respiratory system
The abomasums of a milk fed calf
Gonadotropin Releasing Hormone

40. The most costly form of mastitis is?
Subclinical
Niacin
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.
75-79.9

41. When evaluating dairy rations what do the letters NE stand for?
.39%
Nonstructural Carbohydrates
282 days
Net Energy

42. In which breed of cow is the incidence of milk fever most common?
Beta-carotene
Feed
Jersey
Fats

43. When using a body condition scoring system of 1 to 5 - What does a score of 5 mean?
Prevent ingested metal objects from interfering with the digestive tract or the respiratory system
To give birth
Extremely fat
Collecting the methane gas being produced and using it as an energy source on the dairy

44. How much water can a lactating cow consume in one day?
Total Mixed Ration
Total Production Index
25 gallons
Cystic

45. Cheddar cheese accounts for ____ % of American type cheeses made in the U.S.
80
Milk on Demand
50-70
Limber leg

46. A rolling herd average (RHA) is based on how many months?
Niacin
Total Digestible Nutrients
The weaving gait of affected cattle
Twelve

47. In a cow - where would you find the alveolus?
Cation-Anion Difference
Udder
Food Animal Residue Avoidance Databank
6 hours

48. ___________ represents the largest daily input cost in producing milk.
Rumen and reticulum
Food Animal Residue Avoidance Databank
Feed
Reticulum

49. Young dairy calves frequently suffer and may die due to scours. The chief cause of deadly scours at this age is...
The bacteria Escherichia Coli
Administered in the muscle
Cellulose - hemicellulose - and lignin
Dairy Comp 305

50. On the PDCA Unified Dairy Score Card - the category 'feet and legs' accounts for how many points?
Body weight
Back flushing
20
General Agreement on Tariff and Trade

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