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Dairy Cattle Basics

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1. GATT
40/60
General Agreement on Tariff and Trade
Chine
Sickle hocked

2. The portion of the milker unit that first receives the milk as it is withdrawn from the cow is the...
80
Allowing them access to their new born calf for the 1st 30 days
Listeria
Claw

3. As a rule of thumb when milk production ________ - the milk fat content _______
45-55
Commodity Credit Corporation
Decreases - increases
Brown Swiss

4. Dairy cattle where first successfully cloned in the_______________.

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5. Which of the following is the most popular type of cheese in the United States?
Between 6.0 and 6.5
Post-synch
Cheddar
North American Free Trade Agreement

6. If the freezing point of a sample of raw milk is above 30 degrees F this indicates...
40 degrees F
The weaving gait of affected cattle
High % of water
After 200 days of lactation

7. A ____________ is usually necessary when feeding Dairy Cows TMR rations.
Income over feed costs
Sodium
Mixer box on a truck or trailer
Omasum

8. Legally you cannot make cottage cheese from raw milk - but you can make _________ from raw milk.
Sire conception rate
XY
Cheddar cheese
75-79.9

9. Most dairies in Texas are considered to be CAFO's. A CAFO is...
Omasum
30%
Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation
The abomasums of a milk fed calf

10. Rumen bacteria enable dairy cattle to utilize which feed supplement?
Urea
Corpus Luteum
Mycobacterium Paratuberculosis
Abomasum

11. For best results calves should be fed colostrum within ____ hours of calving...
Pink eye
6 hours
Mixer box on a truck or trailer
Poll

12. When feeding close-up cows a calcium deficient diet - which gland is simulated?
Subclinical
Parathyroid gland
A positively charged ion
40/60

13. Some Texas dairymen are placing Bermuda and/or corn forage into ______________ for fermentation and silage production.
Zinc
Feeding the cow
Large intestines
Large Plastic Bags

14. 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.
National Milk Producers Federation
Plate chiller
It has a lower vacuum requirement
After 200 days of lactation

15. One ejaculation from a bull typically contains _________________ sperm
5000000
Brown Swiss
The abomasums of a milk fed calf
62 to 65% moisture

16. One of the highest heritability traits for milk is...
Hardware disease
50-80%
Brown Swiss
% Protein

17. What should the pH of a 'close up' Holstein's urine be?
Administered via blood vessels
Between 6.0 and 6.5
Foreign Agricultural Service
4 years

18. What is the most essential nutrient in animal feeding animals and maintaining health?
Water
25%
Registered Holstein Ancestry
Abomasum

19. Which reproductive condition results when the fetal membranes remain within the uterus for an extended period following parturition?
Pastuerized Milk Ordinance
Retained placenta
80
Pink eye

20. What female hormone causes follicles to begin to develop?
Predicted Transmitting Ability-Type
25%
Follicle stimulating hormone
Increase - 5

21. What is the classification for a Holstein cow given the numerical value 80-84.9?
16-18
Good plus
Low blood levvels of ionized calcium
300 + degree

22. Normal body temperature for a dairy cow is _____________.
101.5 degrees F
Large intestines
Sodium
Four or more times

23. Bulk tanks must be emptied and cleaned every _____ hours.
Lignin
Pulsator
72
Small intestine

24. According to the American Veterinary Medicine Association - the preferred method of dehorning young calves is_________.
Cheese
Plant starch - pectin - and sugar
Disbudding
Claw

25. A ____________gene in Black and White Holsteins is responsible for the red and white color being expressed at times...
Recessive
Listeria
Omasum
Parturtion

26. %DBH
The tendency for a group of animals to do the same thing at the same time
National Milk Producers Federation
Percentage of Difficult Births in Heifers
Bone calcium

27. How frequently should an average freshen?
305 days
Once every 12 months
Attract the opposite sex
Body weight

28. Which one of the following is the largest dairy milk marketing cooperative in the U.S.?
Between 28 to 30 days
Carbon
Dairy Farmers of America (DFA)
Holstein

29. When is the best time to feed anionic salts to dairy cows?
25-30
A negatively charged ion
Two weeks prior to calving
Longer than 1.5 inches

30. The only aspect of milk quality that can be completely controlled on the farm is ______________.
Predicted Transmitting Ability-Type
10%
Drug residue
100%

31. FSA
Negative net energy balance
Twelve
Farm Service Agency
300 + degree

32. Young dairy calves frequently suffer and may die due to scours. The chief cause of deadly scours at this age is...
Dairy character
Copper
The bacteria Escherichia Coli
Sickle hocked

33. After a bulk tank is washed and rinsed - beading of water droplets is a sign of _____.
100%
Solids removal
40 gallons
Fat residue

34. The rumen of a cow is located...
Fats
Parturtion
Beta-carotene
Left side of the body

35. What state agency regulates waste management?
Water
GTPI
Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
In the cell wall

36. Young dairy calves frequently suffer and may die due to scours. The chief cause of deadly scours at this age is...
A B-Vitamin
The bacteria Escherichia Coli
Feed
Pulsator

37. Blood vessels that transport blood away from the heart are called...
1957
Arteries
750000
Mycobacterium Paratuberculosis

38. The top most part of a cow's head is called the...
Twelve
Poll
They may be bothersome to livestock and other animals
62 to 65% moisture

39. Protein is a combination of amino acids. The amino acids are unique among compounds involved in nutrition because they contaIn what element?
Food safety and Inspection Service
Poor
National Farmers Organization
Nitrogen

40. What is the USDA's AIPL?
The cows leave the milkers via an alley wide enough to allow 2 or more cows side by side
Follicle stimulating hormone
Animal Improvement Program Lab
750000

41. What machine is used to determine if water has been added to milk?
Fats
Bovine Somatotropin
Leukocytes
Cryoscope

42. Dairy heifers need to bred at ________ of age assuming they are at least 65% of their adult weight at that time.
Roughage
Feed
305 days
15 months

43. Foot Rot is scientifically known as what?
Food safety and Inspection Service
Mule-foot
Interdigital phlegmon
MyDairy

44. What is another term for the lowest lateral regions of the abdomen - near the groin?
1957
20
Inguinal
Small intestine

45. To the hundreth - how many pounds of milk are in a gallon?
Digestive
9%
8.62 pounds
Follicular and luteal

46. A bovine female which has not had a calf is a...
Dairy Comp 305
6 hours
Heifer
Between 14 and 35 days

47. What manure waste management method runs manure across a press and squeezes the water out?
Follicle stimulating hormone
Solids removal
Listeria
Cheddar cheese

48. The first feeding of colostrum should equal about ___ percent of the calf's body weight?
5
Calories
Pasteurizing system
Mule-foot

49. Why is fat added to dairy rations?
To add a concentrated form of energy
Vitamin K
PGF
Sickle hocked

50. A dairy expects to cull approximately _________% of their herd each year.
30%
25-30
Fat
Faster

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