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Dairy Cattle Basics
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Ways to avoid milk fever in cows
Sodium Bicarbonate
Feed low potassium hay - silage - and anionic salts to dry cows
Fats
Propionic acid
2. What trait with the only positive genetic correlation to milk production?
You S Animal Health Association
Administered in the muscle
Dairy character
A negatively charged ion
3. When a small metal object punctures the stomach wall and causes an infection - the resulting disease is called____________________.
80
20
Hardware disease
Limber leg
4. What is the largest cost on most U.S. dairy farms?
Nonprotein nitrogen
Left side of the body
Feed
Pasteurizing system
5. Which one of the following is the largest dairy milk marketing cooperative in the U.S.?
Dairy Farmers of America (DFA)
90-100
Jersey
Carbon Dioxide Gas
6. The dairy breed which produces the highest volume of milk is the...
Reduce the incidence of mastitis
Restraint and control of the animal
Preparing cows properly
Holstein
7. What percent of milk is water?
18
87%
Vitamin A
Bangs
8. A Babcock test may be used to measure the __________ % of milk.
50-80%
No less than 60% moisture
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.
Fat
9. Which of the following is an infectious disease?
Water
Ringworm
Intravenous injection of calcium gluconate
Rolling Herd Average
10. What stomach compartments are not developed in a newborn calf?
Rear feet and legs
Holstein
Total Production Index
Rumen and reticulum
11. Which part of the digestive tract is responsible for absorbing excess water?
Large intestines
Attract the opposite sex
Vibriosis
8.62 pounds
12. Legally you cannot make cottage cheese from raw milk - but you can make _________ from raw milk.
Direct Microscopic Counts
70% moisture
Cheddar cheese
Follicular and luteal
13. Bulk tanks must be emptied and cleaned every _____ hours.
Fats
72
101.5 degrees F
Feeding the cow
14. Fumonsin and zearalenone are examples of...
Water
Total Mixed Ration
Mycotoxins
Displaced abomasum
15. To maintain margins - you should be monitoring and making decisions based on your herd's IOFC. What do the initials IOFC stand for?
Income over feed costs
United States Dairy Export Council
2000's
90-100
16. What are the four composite indexes calculated by the Holstein Association?
Interdigital phlegmon
3.5-4.0
Feeding the cow
Udder - feet and legs - body form - & dairy character
17. New computerized robotic milk stations are becoming a reality today. They have different names but one common one is MOD system. MOD means...
Milk on Demand
16-18
90-100
Body weight
18. Each animal inherits certain genes from both parents. What percentage of genes does a calf receive from its sire?
Abomasum
High % of water
50 percent
Arteries
19. FSIS
Food safety and Inspection Service
Pass from animals to humans and vice versa
Udder
Cryoscope
20. Which major dairy breed association was the first to use computers to maintain breed registry records?
Nonstructural Carbohydrates
Loin and chine
Guernsey
Intravenous injection of calcium gluconate
21. What structural carbohydrate component makes older plants less digestible than younger plants?
Lignin
Predicted Transmitting Ability-Type
The cows leave the milkers via an alley wide enough to allow 2 or more cows side by side
18
22. In reference to reproduction - What does CL stand for?
Abortion
Faster
Sickle hocked
Corpus Luteum
23. Pest Predators will travel up to ____ yards to find their food source (fly pupae).
6 hours
80
Swollen hock
XY
24. What is the name of the term for a farm's unique identification number that is part of the National Animal Identification System?
Premis ID
25
3.0
Body weight
25. Limber leg is found most often in the ____________ dairy breed?
Jersey
Beta-carotene
Cheese
Cellulose - hemicellulose - and lignin
26. Dairy cows need roughage to concentrate ratio of approximately ______________ to maintain the desired fat content in the milk.
Lactose intolerance
40/60
5000000
Between 14 and 35 days
27. Feeding proper rations during the summer is important for both cow comfort and maintaining milk production. Which nutrient is most important during the summer months?
Faster
30
Cryoscope
Water
28. When is the best time to feed anionic salts to dairy cows?
Two times
Arteries
Bangs
Two weeks prior to calving
29. Dry cows need 0.8 percent K in their diet. What element is K?
Brucellosis
Basic Formula Price
2:1
Potassium
30. Which one of the following is not classified as a fat‐soluble vitamin?
Vitamin B
Milking Shorthorn
Propionic acid
60 days
31. According to the American Veterinary Medicine Association - the preferred method of dehorning young calves is_________.
Disbudding
Mycobacterium bovis
No less than 60% moisture
100%
32. 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.
25 gallons
Plate chiller
3 years
25%
33. A ____________ is usually necessary when feeding Dairy Cows TMR rations.
Mixer box on a truck or trailer
Cystic
The cows leave the milkers via an alley wide enough to allow 2 or more cows side by side
Food Animal Residue Avoidance Databank
34. How many days after breeding can a pregnancy be detected by ultrasound?
Calories
Mycotoxins
Between 28 to 30 days
The bottom most part of the tail
35. What acid is formed when nonstructural carbohydrates are digested in the rumen?
Prevent ingested metal objects from interfering with the digestive tract or the respiratory system
Propionic acid
Two times
Water
36. What pathway in youg calves direct milk into the abomasum - bypassing the rumen - reticulum - and omasum?
Between 6.0 and 6.5
Oxytocin
Post-synch
Esophageal groove
37. The rumen of a mature cow will hold approximately...
Sole
Sire conception rate
60 days
40 gallons
38. Crude fiber in a dietary ration must be at least ___% or milk fat percent will decrease.
Recessive
60
Mycotoxins
18
39. What is the scientific term for birth?
25
Poll
Parturtion
Escherichia coli
40. When using sexed semen - conception rates are _________ percent of the conception rates achieved when using unsexed semen under the same conditions?
Calcium
Between 6.0 and 6.5
50-80%
The initiation of milk secretion
41. If a dairy bull has been genetically tested to determine his genomic make-up - this will be indicated on his pedigree by what letters?
GTPI
400‐500 gallons
Copper sulfate
2000's
42. On the PDCA Unified Dairy Score Card - the category 'dairy strength' accounts for how many points?
Sodium Bicarbonate
25
Nonprotein nitrogen
Streptococus agalactae
43. Protein is a combination of amino acids. The amino acids are unique among compounds involved in nutrition because they contaIn what element?
Copper
Predicted Transmitting Ability-Type
Neutral Detergent Fiber
Nitrogen
44. How much more energy do fats contain per unit the carbohydrates and proteins?
Commodity Credit Corporation
2.25
Income over feed costs
Holstein
45. The major advantage of a 'low-line' milk line as compared to the older 'high-line' is...
It has a lower vacuum requirement
282 days
Faster
Between 6.0 and 6.5
46. In the standard protocol for cleaning milking equipment - which of the following is not one of the four phases of cleaning?
Total Mixed Ration
40 degrees F
Back flushing
20-30%
47. When examining feed rations - what do the letters NDF stand for?
Between 14 and 35 days
3.0
Holstein
Neutral Detergent Fiber
48. When discussing nutrition - What does NPN stand for?
.39%
Epinephrine
Nonprotein nitrogen
Modified Live Virus
49. The top most part of a cow's head is called the...
Lactation records have been adjusted to the same milk fat percentage
Interdigital phlegmon
Poll
Mammals
50. The hooks and pins on an animal relate most closely to the...
Rump
20
70%
General Agreement on Tariff and Trade