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Dairy Cattle Basics
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What is the sex chromosome configuration of a male calf?
Administered under the skin
30
XY
Interdigital phlegmon
2. Where are degradable proteins broken down?
Heat detection and conception rates
Rumen
Commodity Credit Corporation
Feeding the cow
3. A switch on a cow is...
Feeding the cow
The bottom most part of the tail
35 to 40%
Neutral Detergent Fiber
4. After a bulk tank is washed and rinsed - beading of water droplets is a sign of _____.
Fat residue
Feeding the cow
Feed
Intravenous injection of calcium gluconate
5. Bulk tanks must be emptied and cleaned every _____ hours.
A positively charged ion
Brucellosis
25
72
6. Which dairy breed has a restriction for disallowing black markings?
10%
Milking Shorthorn
Holstein
A negatively charged ion
7. New computerized robotic milk stations are becoming a reality today. They have different names but one common one is MOD system. MOD means...
Rear feet and legs
Twelve
Milk on Demand
Mastitis
8. When evaluating a dairy ration - what do the letters TDN stand for?
Total Digestible Nutrients
2.25
Abomasum
Claw
9. What is Milk Fever paresis caused by?
Low blood levvels of ionized calcium
40 gallons
PGF
Chine
10. What is a TMR to a dairy person?
MyDairy
Sodium
Total Mixed Ration
Plant starch - pectin - and sugar
11. Reduced gestation length and retained placenta typically are the first symptoms of _________________ vitamin deficiency
It is not necessary to supplement the intake of Vitamin B complex
Vitamin A
Nitrogen excretion
18
12. What is the largest cost on most U.S. dairy farms?
Administered via blood vessels
Two times
Feed
Extremely fat
13. Fermented forage plants relates to...
30
Negative net energy balance
Bovine Viral Diarrhea
Silage
14. HTST is a ______________
Sire conception rate
Roughage
Abomasum
Pasteurizing system
15. What is the most essential nutrient in animal feeding animals and maintaining health?
750000
Vibriosis
Limber leg
Water
16. How did parallels perform when compared to herringbones?
North American Free Trade Agreement
Subclinical
Parallels out performed herringbones by nearly 8%
Sickle hocked
17. When compared to normal corn silage - brown mid-rib corn silage has more energy and high digestibility. This is due largely to its lower content of__________.
Longer than 1.5 inches
Mixer box on a truck or trailer
Streptococus agalactae
Lignin
18. Milking time is best reduced by...
10
Preparing cows properly
Jersey
Attract the opposite sex
19. What breed is known to produce milk over a greater number of years than all other breeds?
Carbon
Brown Swiss
80
A minimum of every 6 months
20. What is Milk Fever paresis caused by?
Low blood levvels of ionized calcium
Mastitis
Roughage
Limber leg
21. What units are used to measure energy?
Calories
Twelve
Farm Service Agency
75%
22. A ____________ is usually necessary when feeding Dairy Cows TMR rations.
Guernsey
Sterile heifer born twin to a bull
Cheddar
Mixer box on a truck or trailer
23. What is the reasonable score for body condition at mid-lactation?
Percentage of Difficult Births in Heifers
3.0
Large Plastic Bags
Hormones
24. One form of biological pest management is a predator insect - that can be bought and released to help control flies at a dairy. Which of these is NOT true about these predators...
Fat residue
They may be bothersome to livestock and other animals
European Union
50
25. Normal presentation of a calf for parturition will have...
14 days
Four or more times
Fats
Front feet toward rear of the cow with head - nose first - between them
26. What manure waste management method runs manure across a press and squeezes the water out?
A positively charged ion
Subclinical
After each use
Solids removal
27. FAS
72
Fat residue
The initiation of milk secretion
Foreign Agricultural Service
28. A cow's gestation period is _______ long?
282 days
100%
North American Free Trade Agreement
305 days
29. Which one of the following is not classified as a fatāsoluble vitamin?
Carbon Dioxide Gas
40 gallons
Vitamin B
Four or more times
30. How many grams of lactose are in an 8 oz. glass of milk?
10%
Two times
Udder - feet and legs - body form - & dairy character
10
31. Coccidia infection can occur when calves are 4 to 8 weeks old. Coccidia causes...
Dished
Enteritis
25 gallons
Rumen
32. The only aspect of milk quality that can be completely controlled on the farm is ______________.
45-55
Drug residue
Between 28 to 30 days
50-80%
33. What is lactogenesis?
The initiation of milk secretion
Lignin
Low blood levvels of ionized calcium
Pasteurizing system
34. What describes the fraction of the ration proteins - which is broken down by digestive enzymes and utilized by rumen bacteria?
Drug residue
Farm Service Agency
Extremely fat
% Degradable proteins
35. When is the best time to feed anionic salts to dairy cows?
Two weeks prior to calving
Feed
Silage
60 days
36. What units are used to measure energy?
Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
Calories
1
Feed
37. The most costly form of mastitis is?
Sodium Bicarbonate
The bottom most part of the tail
Subclinical
% Protein
38. Fear can disrupt milk letdown in a cow. The hormone released that causes this disruption is...
3-6 minutes
Recessive
Epinephrine
Omasum
39. When looking at DHI records - what do the letters RHA stand for?
Mycotoxins
It is not necessary to supplement the intake of Vitamin B complex
Cheddar
Rolling Herd Average
40. In a cow - where would you find the alveolus?
Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation
45-55
400 pounds
Udder
41. Milk with over_____________ somatic cell count cannot legally be shipped in the United States?
750000
75%
5000000
A national dairy farmer-funded program that is used to help stabilize milk prices
42. Neospora caninum is a major cause of what in pregnant cows?
14 days
Abortion
Percentage of Difficult Births in Heifers
16-18
43. The medical name tarsal hygroma - a commonaliment of dairy cows is commonly called...
60 days
Roughage
Swollen hock
Brown Swiss
44. The breed of dairy cattle that can be roan - all red - all white - or even spotted red and white is...
Milking Shorthorn
30 hours
Administered under the skin
282 days
45. Dairy herds have historically used artificial insemination. Currently approximately ____________% of all dairy pregnancies results from A.I.
85
Swollen hock
Two
Good plus
46. The major advantage of a 'low-line' milk line as compared to the older 'high-line' is...
Between 6.0 and 6.5
Progesterone
It has a lower vacuum requirement
Guernsey
47. Which reproductive condition results when the fetal membranes remain within the uterus for an extended period following parturition?
Farm Service Agency
Energy
Oxytocin
Retained placenta
48. NAFTA
20
Dairy Comp 305
% Protein
North American Free Trade Agreement
49. Manure digesters convert _______________ fuel into electricity.
% Degradable proteins
Methane
16-18
Brown Swiss
50. A condition of low blood calcium - which results in partial paralysis of the cow is known as __________________.
90-100
Oxytocin
Milk fever
Restraint and control of the animal