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Dairy Cattle Basics
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1. In regards to pedigrees - What is a RHA?
Side by side (head out)
40/60
Registered Holstein Ancestry
Guernsey and Jersey
2. At what isoelectric point (point at which proteins have net zero charge) do caseins precipitate?
PH 4.6
Neutral Detergent Fiber
A negatively charged ion
Pulsator
3. How frequently should an average freshen?
75-79.9
Faster
Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
Once every 12 months
4. A dairy cow that has all 8 permanent incisor teeth can be considered to be a minimum of ______________old.
Total Digestible Nutrients
Inguinal
Reproductive failure
4 years
5. Which trait is worth the most points according to the Dairy Cow Unified Score Card?
Udder
Cheddar
Flank
35 to 40%
6. What ration ingredients contain the highest concentration of energy?
Beta-carotene
Fats
Bovine Viral Diarrhea
Post-synch
7. Which dairy breed has a restriction for disallowing black markings?
The initiation of milk secretion
Very good
Milking Shorthorn
Epinephrine
8. What are two methods for shortening udder hair?
The weaving gait of affected cattle
Modified Live Virus
Lactose intolerance
Clipping and singeing
9. Reduced gestation length and retained placenta typically are the first symptoms of _________________ vitamin deficiency
3.0
Two
Vitamin A
It has a lower vacuum requirement
10. Which major dairy breed association was the first to use computers to maintain breed registry records?
Small intestine
Guernsey
Registered Holstein Ancestry
60 days
11. Generally - high-producing Holsteins eat ___________ pounds of dry matter per day?
A negatively charged ion
45-55
The weaving gait of affected cattle
Zinc
12. The milk produced on a dairy must be moved through a system of components and piping made from...
Stainless steel
.39%
Water
Increase - 5
13. IPM
Abomasum
Integrated pest management
A minimum of every 6 months
Energy
14. When does the greatest mammary tissue growth occur during a cow's life?
During the first pregnancy
Allowing them access to their new born calf for the 1st 30 days
5
Guernsey and Jersey
15. The condition in which the cow is giving more milk than nutrients that she is consuming in feed is called...
Guernsey
Negative net energy balance
National Farmers Organization
Pink eye
16. Reduced gestation length and retained placenta typically are the first symptoms of _________________ vitamin deficiency
Dairy Farmers of America (DFA)
Intravenous injection of calcium gluconate
400 pounds
Vitamin A
17. Which dairy breed originated in the central part of the European continent?
Large Plastic Bags
A negatively charged ion
20
Brown Swiss
18. A free martin is considered a...
Farm Service Agency
Sterile heifer born twin to a bull
Guernsey and Jersey
A B-Vitamin
19. IDFA
Vibriosis
Sterile heifer born twin to a bull
International Dairy Foods Associactions
Sodium
20. 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.
25%
400 pounds
Dairy Comp 305
Preparing cows properly
21. What is the classification for a Holstein cow given the numerical value of less than 70?
Poor
Sodium Bicarbonate
Side by side (head out)
5
22. What is the most essential nutrient in animal feeding animals and maintaining health?
Water
Zinc
Commodity Credit Corporation
Twelve
23. This vitamin plays a role in the coagulation of blood...
Cellulose - hemicellulose - and lignin
Cystic
101.5 degrees F
Vitamin K
24. Most dairies in Texas are considered to be CAFO's. A CAFO is...
The bottom most part of the tail
Displaced abomasum
3-6 minutes
Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation
25. Dairy cattle frequently develop milk fever shortly after calving. They become immobile - comatose - and may die without treatment. The treatment typically involves...
Intravenous injection of calcium gluconate
To add a concentrated form of energy
Roughage
They may be bothersome to livestock and other animals
26. When evaluating a dairy ration - what do the letters TDN stand for?
Dished
Methane
Total Digestible Nutrients
Registered Holstein Ancestry
27. What manure waste management puts solids in a bin and lets it degrade?
Composting
Bangs
50-70
Jersey
28. Pest Predators will travel up to ____ yards to find their food source (fly pupae).
14 days
60 days
Water
80
29. What is another term for the lowest lateral regions of the abdomen - near the groin?
Recessive
Inguinal
70% moisture
60 days
30. Colostrum has approximately _____ calcium - as does regular milk.
Large Plastic Bags
Laminitis
MyDairy
Two times
31. Milk traits - i.e. fat - protein - SNF and etc. - tend to have a heritability of about...
Drug residue
20-30%
Rolling Herd Average
Milk on Demand
32. After insemination - how long do sperm live in the cow's reproductive tract?
Urea
24 hours
Small Intestine
9 weeks
33. Heart girth measurements of cows may be used to estimate...
Nitrogen
Body weight
Guernsey and Jersey
Milking Shorthorn
34. The major advantage of a 'low-line' milk line as compared to the older 'high-line' is...
Food safety and Inspection Service
Farm Service Agency
30%
It has a lower vacuum requirement
35. A bovine female which has not had a calf is a...
Neutral Detergent Fiber
Heifer
% Protein
XY
36. When discussing nutrition - What does NPN stand for?
Transponders
24 hours
Nonprotein nitrogen
To add a concentrated form of energy
37. A rolling herd average (RHA) is based on how many months?
100
24 hours
Twelve
12-14 weeks
38. What female hormone causes follicles to begin to develop?
Follicle stimulating hormone
9 weeks
25 gallons
50-80%
39. This vitamin plays a role in the coagulation of blood...
72
16-18
10%
Vitamin K
40. Which one of the following is not classified as a fatāsoluble vitamin?
Swollen hock
Roughage
Vitamin B
Milk on Demand
41. NSC
Sickle hocked
Nonstructural Carbohydrates
NAtional Research Council
3-6 minutes
42. What acid is formed when nonstructural carbohydrates are digested in the rumen?
To give birth
Brown Swiss
Propionic acid
40/60
43. Fats are broken down by a dairy cow In what part of her body?
High % of water
Small intestine
Transponders
Transponders
44. What is Milk Fever paresis caused by?
Vitamin A
Low blood levvels of ionized calcium
Predicted Transmitting Ability-Type
50-70
45. What female hormone causes follicles to begin to develop?
Follicle stimulating hormone
Gonadotropin Releasing Hormone
35 to 40%
Two times
46. What numerical value does a Holstein cow get when given the classification good?
75-79.9
Side by side (head out)
Mule-foot
60 days
47. 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
2000's
Between 28 to 30 days
Pass from animals to humans and vice versa
Total Production Index
48. Dairy cows need roughage to concentrate ratio of approximately ______________ to maintain the desired fat content in the milk.
40/60
Mud - water - and manure
Duodenum
Dairy character
49. A bovine female which has not had a calf is a...
Rump
Cryoscope
Lignin
Heifer
50. When reffering to vaccinations - what do the letters MLV stand for?
Net Energy
Collecting the methane gas being produced and using it as an energy source on the dairy
Modified Live Virus
Side by side (head out)
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