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Dairy Cattle Basics

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1. The rumen of a cow is located...
Clipping and singeing
Left side of the body
Lactose intolerance
50

2. Blood vessels that transport blood away from the heart are called...
The abomasums of a milk fed calf
High-producing pregnant cows
Arteries
Total Production Index

3. Which body part is located more towards the front of the animal?
Solids removal
Flank
Body weight
20 to 24

4. What numerical value does a Holstein cow get when given the classification excellent?
90-100
20000000
Drug residue
Foreign Agricultural Service

5. NMPF
Once every 12 months
Large Plastic Bags
Collecting the methane gas being produced and using it as an energy source on the dairy
National Milk Producers Federation

6. Cheddar cheese accounts for ____ % of American type cheeses made in the U.S.
Guernsey
Between 28 to 30 days
80
72

7. The standard length of the dry period in dairy cattle is ________?
60 days
You S Animal Health Association
Food safety and Inspection Service
Fats

8. What percent of crude protein should a calf starter be?
72
Urea
Milk fever
16-18

9. To the hundreth - how many pounds of milk are in a gallon?
North American Free Trade Agreement
Milk fever
8.62 pounds
Swollen hock

10. Which reproductive condition results when the fetal membranes remain within the uterus for an extended period following parturition?
85
Between 6.0 and 6.5
Retained placenta
Left side of the body

11. Heart girth measurements of cows may be used to estimate...
Rolling Herd Average
Body weight
Escherichia coli
Pass from animals to humans and vice versa

12. Cattle grazing stressed on wilted hybrid sorghum/Johnson grass type pasture - may die as a result of ________________.
90-100
Prussic acid poisoning
Rumen
Holstein

13. Which hormone produced by the uterus causes regression of the corpus luteum?
PGF
Water
Farm Service Agency
Oxytocin

14. Cheddar cheese accounts for ____ % of American type cheeses made in the U.S.
The bottom most part of the tail
During the first pregnancy
80
Udder - feet and legs - body form - & dairy character

15. The rear quarters produce __________% of the daily milk yield.
Solids removal
60
Calcium
When it is proven that she will breed

16. A material used in a footbath for cows with foot rot problems is...
Fat residue
Copper sulfate
In the cell wall
Prussic acid poisoning

17. What is a TMR to a dairy person?
Mycobacterium bovis
Displaced abomasum
Total Mixed Ration
35 to 40%

18. How many days after breeding can a pregnancy be detected by ultrasound?
Between 28 to 30 days
Composting
Lactation records have been adjusted to the same milk fat percentage
75-79.9

19. The most common pathogen found in raw milk is...
Lignin
400 pounds
Escherichia coli
60 days

20. NAFTA
Cryoscope
Commodity Credit Corporation
North American Free Trade Agreement
Mud - water - and manure

21. One of the highest heritability traits for milk is...
% Protein
Predicted Transmitting Ability-Type
PH 4.6
Gonadotropin Releasing Hormone

22. What is the USDA's AIPL?
25
Animal Improvement Program Lab
National Milk Producers Federation
Cheddar

23. USAHA
80
Magnesium
You S Animal Health Association
Two weeks prior to calving

24. IPM
70% moisture
Udder - feet and legs - body form - & dairy character
100
Integrated pest management

25. NSC
24
Holstein
Nonstructural Carbohydrates
50

26. What is a nonfunctional mammary gland called?
70% moisture
Blind quarter
87%
Feed low potassium hay - silage - and anionic salts to dry cows

27. What is an anion?
Jersey
Holstein
A negatively charged ion
A minimum of every 6 months

28. On the PDCA Unified Dairy Score Card - the category 'dairy strength' accounts for how many points?
High % of water
European Union
25
High-producing pregnant cows

29. Bovine Progressive Degenerative Myeloencephalopathy (BPDME) is better known as Weaver Syndrome because of...
The weaving gait of affected cattle
Relative Forage Value
70% moisture
Guernsey

30. In reference to reproduction - What does CL stand for?
Corpus Luteum
Carbon
Esophageal groove
Rolling Herd Average

31. Which one of the following is NOT classified as a water soluble-vitamin?
Vitamin A
Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
Feed
Propionic acid

32. When evaluating a dairy ration - what do the letters TDN stand for?
Potassium
Total Digestible Nutrients
After each use
Cryoscope

33. How many grams of lactose are in an 8 oz. glass of milk?
Parturtion
Foreign Agricultural Service
Udder
10

34. The typical lactation curve shows a dairy cow reaching her peak production about ________days into the lactation cycle.
50-70
Parturtion
Premis ID
Mastitis

35. Endocrinology is the science dealing with _______________.
Chine
Hormones
Abomasum
Registered Holstein Ancestry

36. 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.
Foreign Agricultural Service
Plate chiller
Carbon
Fats

37. What is the average production lifetime of a dairy cow?
3 years
50-80%
Nitrogen
Premis ID

38. Dairy heifers need to bred at ________ of age assuming they are at least 65% of their adult weight at that time.
Ringworm
Side by side (head out)
15 months
14 days

39. A very popular dairy management software in Texas is...
Propionic acid
Dairy Comp 305
High-producing pregnant cows
Rear feet and legs

40. On average - how many weekd after freshening does a cow's dry matter intake peak?
Brown Swiss
4 years
12-14 weeks
Vitamin A

41. The portion of the ruminant digestive system which is known as and functions as the 'true' stomach is the...
Parturtion
Rolling Herd Average
Abomasum
Feeding the cow

42. Cow comfort has been linked to milk production in numerous research studies. Not an example of a way to improve cow comfort used by dairymen?
Arteries
Allowing them access to their new born calf for the 1st 30 days
Total Mixed Ration
Displaced abomasum

43. Dairy cattle have a ________ field of vision to their front
Food safety and Inspection Service
300 + degree
Hormones
To add a concentrated form of energy

44. What are the two types of ovarian cysts?
Negative net energy balance
Listeria
Follicular and luteal
Copper sulfate

45. Research has shown that by formulating lactating cow rations with proper amounts of certain amino acids - we can decrease the crude protein content of the ration and reduce _______________________?
Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
Nitrogen excretion
25 gallons
Vitamin K

46. Alfalfa is an example of ___ in a dairy ration.
Roughage
50-80%
Parturient paresis
Dairy character

47. How frequently should an average freshen?
Between 28 to 30 days
Once every 12 months
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.
Mycobacterium bovis

48. Milk with over_____________ somatic cell count cannot legally be shipped in the United States?
Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
Jersey
Nonstructural Carbohydrates
750000

49. Colostrum given to a baby calf more than ____________hours old is NOT absorbed and thus does little good.
Brucellosis
Calories
Neutral Detergent Fiber
24

50. When reffering to vaccinations - what do the letters MLV stand for?
Holstein
24 hours
Calcium
Modified Live Virus