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Dairy Cattle Basics
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. NSC
Alfalfa and Clover
3.5-4.0
Faster
Nonstructural Carbohydrates
2. Fermented forage plants relates to...
3 years
Silage
Laminitis
Streptococus agalactae
3. Dairy rations - especially those for high producing cows - may be buffered to maintain a desirable rumen pH. The most common buffering agent for this is...
Symbiotic
Sodium Bicarbonate
Prevent ingested metal objects from interfering with the digestive tract or the respiratory system
Modified Live Virus
4. When the environmental temperature falls below 30°F - the normal diet of a young calf should be supplemented with _______________?
% Protein
To give birth
Energy
20-30%
5. What is the name of the term for a farm's unique identification number that is part of the National Animal Identification System?
Cation-Anion Difference
20000000
Integrated pest management
Premis ID
6. PTAT
Left side of the body
Predicted Transmitting Ability-Type
Holstein
Guernsey
7. When examining feed rations - what do the letters NDF stand for?
Four or more times
Neutral Detergent Fiber
Holstein
Total Mixed Ration
8. Which part of the digestive tract is responsible for absorbing excess water?
Side by side (head out)
Large intestines
Solids removal
The abomasums of a milk fed calf
9. Fats are broken down by a dairy cow In what part of her body?
Streptococus agalactae
Manure handling procedures
Small intestine
Percentage of Difficult Births in Heifers
10. Endocrinology is the science dealing with _______________.
Hormones
Commodity Credit Corporation
Small Intestine
Feed low potassium hay - silage - and anionic salts to dry cows
11. NFDM
Nonfat Dry Milk
5-9 years old
Parturient paresis
Escherichia coli
12. Reduced gestation length and retained placenta typically are the first symptoms of _________________ vitamin deficiency
International Dairy Foods Associactions
Brown Swiss
Vitamin A
The bacteria Escherichia Coli
13. What manure waste management method runs manure across a press and squeezes the water out?
Solids removal
16-18
Net Energy
Front feet toward rear of the cow with head - nose first - between them
14. A dairyman may milk in a rapid exit barn. This simply means that...
Total Digestible Nutrients
The cows leave the milkers via an alley wide enough to allow 2 or more cows side by side
Sire conception rate
3-6 minutes
15. At what isoelectric point (point at which proteins have net zero charge) do caseins precipitate?
282 days
1957
PH 4.6
Neutral Detergent Fiber
16. A material used in a footbath for cows with foot rot problems is...
Copper sulfate
3.0
6 hours
Energy
17. CCC
Abomasum
Black leg
15 months
Commodity Credit Corporation
18. One of the highest heritability traits for milk is...
% Protein
Vibriosis
Bangs
Parturient paresis
19. 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...
Stainless steel
Nitrogen
They may be bothersome to livestock and other animals
When it is proven that she will breed
20. According to recent USDA surveys - What is the most popular age to wean dairy calves?
9 weeks
Mud - water - and manure
Oxytocin
Between 28 to 30 days
21. In order to prevent bloat - the feed additive Poloxalene is often added to feed rations for cows that are grazing. Which of the following grazed forages are most likely to cause bloat?
Copper sulfate
After 55 days
National Milk Producers Federation
Alfalfa and Clover
22. GATT
Mammals
Food safety and Inspection Service
Follicle stimulating hormone
General Agreement on Tariff and Trade
23. Dairy producers are particularly watchful for zoonotic diseases in their herd. Zoonotic diseases are defined as those that...
Sire conception rate
Water
Pass from animals to humans and vice versa
Negative net energy balance
24. What state agency regulates waste management?
High % of water
Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
Preparing cows properly
85
25. The hormone BST is given to dairy cows...
After 200 days of lactation
National Milk Producers Federation
Percentage of Difficult Births in Heifers
16-18
26. On average - how many weekd after freshening does a cow's dry matter intake peak?
12-14 weeks
Prussic acid poisoning
Cellulose - hemicellulose - and lignin
Plant starch - pectin - and sugar
27. Milk sugars are not very soluble. Some people have difficulty hydrolyzing them in their bodies. This problem is called _________________.
Large intestines
Lactose intolerance
After 55 days
Copper
28. Which hormone produced by the uterus causes regression of the corpus luteum?
.39%
Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
PGF
Dairy Comp 305
29. When sanitizing milking equipment with water - the temperature must be a minimum of 170 degrees F and the utensils are to be under the flow of water for ____________ minute(s).
30
5
20-30%
Reproductive failure
30. Neospora caninum is a major cause of what in pregnant cows?
Allowing them access to their new born calf for the 1st 30 days
During the first pregnancy
Abortion
Commodity Credit Corporation
31. Alfalfa is an example of ___ in a dairy ration.
Udder - feet and legs - body form - & dairy character
Vitamin A
Roughage
Oxytocin
32. Colostrum given to a baby calf more than ____________hours old is NOT absorbed and thus does little good.
24
Bovine Viral Diarrhea
Income over feed costs
Fat
33. NMPF
90-100
50
National Milk Producers Federation
The weaving gait of affected cattle
34. When is the best time to feed anionic salts to dairy cows?
Carbon
Intravenous injection of calcium gluconate
Progesterone
Two weeks prior to calving
35. Which major dairy breed association was the first to use computers to maintain breed registry records?
Cellulose - hemicellulose - and lignin
Corpus Luteum
Copper sulfate
Guernsey
36. The two main problems that effect reproduction are...
Heat detection and conception rates
Feed low potassium hay - silage - and anionic salts to dry cows
Cheddar cheese
The abomasums of a milk fed calf
37. A Babcock test may be used to measure the __________ % of milk.
Esophageal groove
Relative Forage Value
Feed
Fat
38. The condition in which the cow is giving more milk than nutrients that she is consuming in feed is called...
Plate chiller
It is not necessary to supplement the intake of Vitamin B complex
A B-Vitamin
Negative net energy balance
39. Which of the following diseases is not caused by a virus?
A negatively charged ion
Laminitis
Nitrogen excretion
3.0
40. A disease transmitted through natural mating which causes abortion - low conception rates - and irregular heat cycles is _____________________.
Back flushing
Alfalfa and Clover
20
Vibriosis
41. Lactation is unique to _________.
After 55 days
Mammals
Sodium
Progesterone
42. A mutation where a calf is born with a single toe on one or more feet is called...
1957
Cheddar
Twelve
Mule-foot
43. What breed is known to produce milk over a greater number of years than all other breeds?
Cheddar
Brown Swiss
Restraint and control of the animal
Brucellosis
44. What units are used to measure energy?
Niacin
Calories
Inguinal
Guernsey
45. Heritability for milk production in dairy cattle is...
Sodium
Cheddar
30%
Hardware disease
46. Which dairy breed originated in the central part of the European continent?
Lactose intolerance
Brown Swiss
Calories
Corpus Luteum
47. The two U.S. dairy breeds that originated in the Channel Islands off the coast of France are...
Total Production Index
Large intestines
Guernsey and Jersey
Feeding the cow
48. What percent non-fiber carbohydrate should a ration contain for high producing cows?
Twelve
Follicle stimulating hormone
Rumen and reticulum
35 to 40%
49. How many grams of lactose are in an 8 oz. glass of milk?
10
10%
Disbudding
Dairy Comp 305
50. Jersey cattle are characterized by having a ______________ face...
Dished
Carbon
Rumen
Displaced abomasum