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Dairy Cattle Basics
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A rolling herd average (RHA) is based on how many months?
High % of water
Twelve
PGF
4 years
2. What hormone is responsible for maintaining pregnancy?
Composting
Progesterone
2:1
Parturtion
3. What ration ingredients contain the highest concentration of energy?
9 weeks
.39%
Fats
40 degrees F
4. When evaluating dairy rations what do the letters NE stand for?
Good plus
Net Energy
Heat detection and conception rates
Cryoscope
5. Dairy Management Inc. introduced the _______ social media program for dairy advocates?
Mixer box on a truck or trailer
Mastitis
MyDairy
Cheese
6. Producers using BST must give their cows an injection of it every...
PH 4.6
14 days
Registered Holstein Ancestry
40/60
7. Dairy cows produce milk that is relatively high in B complex vitamins. Because they are ruminants...
It is not necessary to supplement the intake of Vitamin B complex
Pastuerized Milk Ordinance
20
305 days
8. Milk with over_____________ somatic cell count cannot legally be shipped in the United States?
70% moisture
750000
Two weeks prior to calving
24
9. To dairymen - the most harmful disease impacting milk production and their economic bottom line is...
50
750000
Mastitis
Lactation records have been adjusted to the same milk fat percentage
10. What are the four composite indexes calculated by the Holstein Association?
Udder - feet and legs - body form - & dairy character
Copper
25-30
Progesterone
11. Which mineral functions in maintaining osmotic pressure - acid-base balance - and body fluid balance?
Sodium
Administered via blood vessels
Rolling Herd Average
To give birth
12. When evaluating a dairy ration - what do the letters TDN stand for?
Total Digestible Nutrients
Post-synch
Vitamin A
3-6 minutes
13. The hooks and pins on an animal relate most closely to the...
Gonadotropin Releasing Hormone
Abomasum
Food safety and Inspection Service
Rump
14. What numerical value does a Holstein cow get when given the classification good?
.39%
18
75-79.9
Fat residue
15. 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
Four or more times
Milk on Demand
16. Adequate consumption of long fiber roughage is important to both milk production and herd heath. A long fiber roughage is one that is...
Reticulum
50 percent
Bangs
Longer than 1.5 inches
17. Which body part is located more towards the front of the animal?
Brucellosis
Flank
Percentage of Difficult Births in Heifers
2:1
18. Crude fiber in a dietary ration must be at least ___% or milk fat percent will decrease.
Administered under the skin
18
Administered via blood vessels
When it is proven that she will breed
19. One ejaculation from a bull typically contains _________________ sperm
Integrated pest management
5000000
It is not necessary to supplement the intake of Vitamin B complex
After 55 days
20. Dairy cattle frequently develop milk fever shortly after calving. They become immobile - comatose - and may die without treatment. The treatment typically involves...
Reproductive failure
Listeria
Abomasum
Intravenous injection of calcium gluconate
21. A dairy expects to cull approximately _________% of their herd each year.
62 to 65% moisture
Listeria
25-30
Carbon Dioxide Gas
22. In the reproductive tract of a dairy cow - how many uterine horns are there?
Roughage
The initiation of milk secretion
Mycobacterium bovis
Two
23. Allelomimetic behavior is defined as...
20-30%
The tendency for a group of animals to do the same thing at the same time
Mule-foot
Reproductive failure
24. When a cow comes into heat every few days - she is referred to as?
Omasum
Cystic
Between 14 and 35 days
Guernsey
25. How many grams of lactose are in an 8 oz. glass of milk?
North American Free Trade Agreement
Gonadotropin Releasing Hormone
10
Extremely fat
26. NFO
Disbudding
Epinephrine
Mud - water - and manure
National Farmers Organization
27. How many grams of lactose are in an 8 oz. glass of milk?
10
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.
Extremely fat
35 to 40%
28. How many days after breeding can a pregnancy be detected by ultrasound?
Between 28 to 30 days
Fat residue
Vitamin B
Intravenous injection of calcium gluconate
29. The top most part of a cow's head is called the...
Reduce the incidence of mastitis
Poll
80
Water
30. A dairy cow that has all 8 permanent incisor teeth can be considered to be a minimum of ______________old.
Administered via blood vessels
4 years
Pasteurizing system
Allowing them access to their new born calf for the 1st 30 days
31. What is the average production lifetime of a dairy cow?
3 years
Stainless steel
750000
Fat
32. What is a common name for infectious kerato conjunctivitis?
Magnesium
Once every 12 months
Pink eye
15 months
33. Milking time is best reduced by...
Preparing cows properly
Milking Shorthorn
Milk on Demand
The tendency for a group of animals to do the same thing at the same time
34. ___________ represents the largest daily input cost in producing milk.
Feed
A positively charged ion
The initiation of milk secretion
Mammals
35. When evaluating dairy rations what do the letters NE stand for?
Net Energy
Bovine Somatotropin
Retained placenta
72
36. According to recent USDA surveys - What is the most popular age to wean dairy calves?
National Milk Producers Federation
Jersey
9 weeks
Oxytocin
37. When referring to rations - what do the letters NFC stand for?
Arteries
Mammals
15 months
Non-forage Carbohydrates
38. According to the American Veterinary Medicine Association - the preferred method of dehorning young calves is_________.
Disbudding
Dairy Comp 305
Streptococus agalactae
5
39. NFDM
Food safety and Inspection Service
25
Nonfat Dry Milk
Leukocytes
40. Corn silage - stored in upright - top-unloading silos - should be chopped at which percent moisture?
62 to 65% moisture
The tendency for a group of animals to do the same thing at the same time
Solids removal
Milk on Demand
41. Colostrum given to a baby calf more than ____________hours old is NOT absorbed and thus does little good.
Feeding the cow
24
Milk fever
30%
42. BFP
Copper
Basic Formula Price
A negatively charged ion
50-70
43. What units are used to measure energy?
Calories
30 hours
Holstein
Percentage of Difficult Births in Heifers
44. What is a cation?
Laminitis
62 to 65% moisture
Cows Milk production this month divided by production last month X 100
A positively charged ion
45. Regarding feed formulation - What does CAD stand for?
Cation-Anion Difference
Faster
100
Plant starch - pectin - and sugar
46. FSA
Enteritis
Escherichia coli
Large Plastic Bags
Farm Service Agency
47. In the reproductive tract of a dairy cow - how many uterine horns are there?
Two
60 days
1957
No less than 60% moisture
48. What percent of dry matter in plants is made of carbohydrates?
Heat detection and conception rates
75%
Solids removal
50-80%
49. When using sexed semen - conception rates are _________ percent of the conception rates achieved when using unsexed semen under the same conditions?
50-80%
Mixer box on a truck or trailer
3 years
Jersey
50. As a rule of thumb when milk production ________ - the milk fat content _______
Laminitis
Decreases - increases
87%
Rumen and reticulum