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Dairy Cattle Basics
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1. What numerical value does a Holstein cow get when given the classification good?
Milking Shorthorn
75-79.9
Magnesium
Neutral Detergent Fiber
2. 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
Premis ID
Guernsey
You S Animal Health Association
3. IPM
Integrated pest management
Total Production Index
Once every 12 months
Sickle hocked
4. A Babcock test may be used to measure the __________ % of milk.
Brown Swiss
Mule-foot
Fat
The bottom most part of the tail
5. Heart girth measurements of cows may be used to estimate...
Twice/day
Body weight
Post-synch
20 to 24
6. Neospora caninum is a major cause of what in pregnant cows?
70%
Abortion
Between 28 to 30 days
Prussic acid poisoning
7. This bacteria causes 'Circling Disease' in cattle...
Propionic acid
PH 4.6
Listeria
30%
8. Dry cows need 0.8 percent K in their diet. What element is K?
Potassium
You S Animal Health Association
Bangs
Black leg
9. High potassium intake will decrease a cows ability to mobilize what?
Bone calcium
Once every 12 months
Decreases - increases
Modified Live Virus
10. In reference to reproduction - What does CL stand for?
10%
50
Corpus Luteum
To give birth
11. Colostrum has approximately _____ calcium - as does regular milk.
MyDairy
MyDairy
A negatively charged ion
Two times
12. How many days after breeding can a pregnancy be detected by ultrasound?
Between 28 to 30 days
5
Lignin
Reproductive failure
13. When feeding close-up cows a calcium deficient diet - which gland is simulated?
14 days
International Dairy Foods Associactions
Parathyroid gland
Direct Microscopic Counts
14. Regarding feed formulation - What does CAD stand for?
The bottom most part of the tail
Nitrogen
2:1
Cation-Anion Difference
15. What is the largest cost on most U.S. dairy farms?
The bacteria Escherichia Coli
PH 4.6
Milking Shorthorn
Feed
16. USAHA
National Milk Producers Federation
You S Animal Health Association
Esophageal groove
Dished
17. Milk fever is also (scientifically) known as what?
XY
Parturient paresis
Collecting the methane gas being produced and using it as an energy source on the dairy
Mud - water - and manure
18. When using sexed semen - conception rates are _________ percent of the conception rates achieved when using unsexed semen under the same conditions?
Magnesium
Post-synch
50-80%
To add a concentrated form of energy
19. dairy cow may not reach her highest milk yield until she is...
Streptococus agalactae
Vitamin K
5-9 years old
Between 6.0 and 6.5
20. What percent of the cows feed intake is consumed during the daylight hours?
Collecting the methane gas being produced and using it as an energy source on the dairy
3.0
70%
The abomasums of a milk fed calf
21. When is the best time to feed anionic salts to dairy cows?
MyDairy
A B-Vitamin
30
Two weeks prior to calving
22. It is widely acknowledged that a calcium/phosphorus ration of about ______________ is best for a dairy ration since this mirrors that of the cows' body.
Citrate
80
GTPI
2:1
23. A very popular dairy management software in Texas is...
2.25
Dairy Comp 305
Urea
Beta-carotene
24. Which cows have higher protein requirements?
282 days
High-producing pregnant cows
80
Nonstructural Carbohydrates
25. FARAD
Ringworm
Animal Improvement Program Lab
Food Animal Residue Avoidance Databank
Heat detection and conception rates
26. Which cows have higher protein requirements?
Omasum
Administered under the skin
Energy
High-producing pregnant cows
27. dairy cow may not reach her highest milk yield until she is...
5-9 years old
18
Retained placenta
282 days
28. What percentage of whole milk is fat when compared on a dry matter basis?
25%
Plate chiller
Negative net energy balance
Progesterone
29. In dairy cows - What is the name of the disease caused by the organisms Staph Aureus - Strep Uberis - and Klebsiella?
Mixer box on a truck or trailer
% Protein
GTPI
Mastitis
30. When doing classification scoring - a cow given the numerical value of 85-89.9 is classified as...
Rear feet and legs
Very good
After 200 days of lactation
Nonfat Dry Milk
31. What state agency regulates waste management?
75-79.9
Parallels out performed herringbones by nearly 8%
Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
Restraint and control of the animal
32. What does the term freshen mean in relation the dairy production?
To give birth
Relative Forage Value
Twice/day
Net Energy
33. Which mineral functions in maintaining osmotic pressure - acid-base balance - and body fluid balance?
10 days
Sodium
Dairy character
Displaced abomasum
34. One ejaculation from a bull typically contains _________________ sperm
Back flushing
5000000
Progesterone
Parallels out performed herringbones by nearly 8%
35. Quality forage is critical for acow's milk production. Many people evaluate hay based upon its green color; others think the color is a poor indication of nutrient composition. However - green colored hay is generally considered to have a higher ____
Beta-carotene
Nitrogen
Commodity Credit Corporation
Animal Improvement Program Lab
36. New computerized robotic milk stations are becoming a reality today. They have different names but one common one is MOD system. MOD means...
Calcium
Commodity Credit Corporation
Milk on Demand
Mastitis
37. Milk let down in a dairy cow may be stimulated by...
Integrated pest management
Interdigital phlegmon
Feeding the cow
24 hours
38. 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?
Percentage of Difficult Births in Heifers
A national dairy farmer-funded program that is used to help stabilize milk prices
Nonprotein nitrogen
Allowing them access to their new born calf for the 1st 30 days
39. According to recent USDA surveys - What is the most popular age to wean dairy calves?
45-55
PGF
9 weeks
% Degradable proteins
40. Which of the following is not a commonly usedestrus synchronization program for dairy cattle?
Follicular and luteal
Displaced abomasum
30 hours
Post-synch
41. Which one of the following is NOT classified as a water soluble-vitamin?
50-70
Laminitis
After 200 days of lactation
Vitamin A
42. What is a TMR to a dairy person?
Niacin
300 + degree
Total Mixed Ration
Front feet toward rear of the cow with head - nose first - between them
43. How many days after parturition should you wait before breeding a cow back?
60 days
20 to 24
Mycobacterium bovis
Sterile heifer born twin to a bull
44. Which of the compartments of a cow's four-compartment stomach acts as the true stomach?
Abomasum
Follicle stimulating hormone
Back flushing
The influence of the sire of the cow on calving ease
45. Manure management is a major concern for most modern - large-scale dairies. The newest management techniques being used involve...
Dairy Comp 305
Manure handling procedures
Cellulose - hemicellulose - and lignin
Collecting the methane gas being produced and using it as an energy source on the dairy
46. BFP
70%
Large intestines
Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
Basic Formula Price
47. GATT
General Agreement on Tariff and Trade
Copper sulfate
Nonprotein nitrogen
Loin and chine
48. Milk with over_____________ somatic cell count cannot legally be shipped in the United States?
750000
NAtional Research Council
Vitamin B
North American Free Trade Agreement
49. In the ruminant digestive system - which to the following is the name of first section of the small intestine that is connected to the abomasum?
12-14 weeks
Vitamin A
Mycotoxins
Duodenum
50. Dairy cattle where first successfully cloned in the_______________.
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