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Dairy Cattle Basics
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1. What percent moisture should corn silage be chopped at when stored in horizontal bunker silos or bags?
Omasum
70% moisture
The cows leave the milkers via an alley wide enough to allow 2 or more cows side by side
5
2. NSC
Lignin
40 gallons
Black leg
Nonstructural Carbohydrates
3. Proponents of global warming having accused cows of being a major factor. This is due to their release of...
Sickle hocked
The weaving gait of affected cattle
Carbon Dioxide Gas
Guernsey
4. Which compartment of a dairy cow's stomach is located closest to the heart and it is a spot where hardware disease occurs?
Potassium
Cryoscope
Reticulum
The cows leave the milkers via an alley wide enough to allow 2 or more cows side by side
5. When the environmental temperature falls below 30°F - the normal diet of a young calf should be supplemented with _______________?
Vitamin K
Pastuerized Milk Ordinance
Udder - feet and legs - body form - & dairy character
Energy
6. What is the average production lifetime of a dairy cow?
305 days
3.0
Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
3 years
7. What is intravenous injection?
Feed
Black leg
Administered via blood vessels
Cows Milk production this month divided by production last month X 100
8. What is intravenous injection?
Hormones
Streptococus agalactae
Administered via blood vessels
Body weight
9. Which mineral functions in maintaining osmotic pressure - acid-base balance - and body fluid balance?
United States Dairy Export Council
282 days
Solids removal
Sodium
10. Most dairies in Texas are considered to be CAFO's. A CAFO is...
Inguinal
Animal Improvement Program Lab
5
Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation
11. 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...
Digestive
Sodium Bicarbonate
Left side of the body
.39%
12. Fermented forage plants relates to...
Silage
NAtional Research Council
Cryoscope
80
13. A mutation where a calf is born with a single toe on one or more feet is called...
Mule-foot
Omasum
Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
5
14. Rotary Parlors or Carousel milk barns have the advantage of being ________________ when compared to other type barns.
25 gallons
Faster
Alfalfa and Clover
Bangs
15. 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 ____
5
Beta-carotene
50-80%
Drug residue
16. Legally you cannot make cottage cheese from raw milk - but you can make _________ from raw milk.
25
.39%
Guernsey and Jersey
Cheddar cheese
17. When reffering to vaccinations - what do the letters MLV stand for?
15 months
25
Modified Live Virus
25-30
18. An average Holstein cow should give _______ pounds per day for each lactation.
50
5
40 degrees F
Cation-Anion Difference
19. FSA
Black leg
In the cell wall
Farm Service Agency
Calcium
20. What manure waste management method runs manure across a press and squeezes the water out?
Escherichia coli
Administered in the muscle
35 to 40%
Solids removal
21. In which breed of cow is the incidence of milk fever most common?
Jersey
Heifer
Predicted Transmitting Ability-Type
Prussic acid poisoning
22. FARAD
High-producing pregnant cows
Cheese
Food Animal Residue Avoidance Databank
Body weight
23. Alfalfa is an example of ___ in a dairy ration.
Interdigital phlegmon
300 + degree
Roughage
Plant starch - pectin - and sugar
24. The hormone BST is given to dairy cows...
75%
Blind quarter
After 200 days of lactation
Neutral Detergent Fiber
25. What machine is used to determine if water has been added to milk?
Modified Live Virus
Cryoscope
Rump
5
26. Each animal inherits certain genes from both parents. What percentage of genes does a calf receive from its sire?
Premis ID
Silage
50 percent
Mammals
27. If a dairy bull has been genetically tested to determine his genomic make-up - this will be indicated on his pedigree by what letters?
Heat detection and conception rates
GTPI
Lactation records have been adjusted to the same milk fat percentage
Digestive
28. Dairy herds have historically used artificial insemination. Currently approximately ____________% of all dairy pregnancies results from A.I.
Parathyroid gland
85
Small intestine
Retained placenta
29. Cattle grazing stressed on wilted hybrid sorghum/Johnson grass type pasture - may die as a result of ________________.
After 200 days of lactation
Prussic acid poisoning
United States Dairy Export Council
85
30. What is the scientific term for birth?
16-18
Administered via blood vessels
Laminitis
Parturtion
31. For best results calves should be fed colostrum within ____ hours of calving...
Sickle hocked
6 hours
Udder - feet and legs - body form - & dairy character
Methane
32. If there are large numbers of flies around the dairy barn - what should be the first thing to be examined in an attempt to solve the fly problem?
Manure handling procedures
Mastitis
400‐500 gallons
10 days
33. The CWT programs stands for Cooperatives Working Together. Which of the following describes the function of this program?
9%
Carbon
Lignin
A national dairy farmer-funded program that is used to help stabilize milk prices
34. How many das into a pregnancy can a fetus be sexed by ultrasound?
Twice/day
Limber leg
After 55 days
Cheese
35. The annual sale of dairy semen exceeds __________ straws.
Reticulum
Relative Forage Value
20000000
Urea
36. What bacterium causes cattle tuberculosis (TB)?
Stainless steel
Mycobacterium bovis
Preparing cows properly
Rumen
37. Rumen bacteria enable dairy cattle to utilize which feed supplement?
National Milk Producers Federation
Urea
Relative Forage Value
PH 4.6
38. The number one reason for culling in U.S. dairy herds is...
Reproductive failure
Food Animal Residue Avoidance Databank
Prussic acid poisoning
Mixer box on a truck or trailer
39. If the heat detection rate is 30% and the conception rate is 30% - What is the pregnancy rate?
Digital Dermatitis
Mastitis
Pasteurizing system
9%
40. At how many days can pregnancy be detected by palpation?
Between 14 and 35 days
Flank
United States Dairy Export Council
5
41. As a rule of thumb when milk production ________ - the milk fat content _______
Negative net energy balance
European Union
Decreases - increases
Food safety and Inspection Service
42. Which hormone produced by the uterus causes regression of the corpus luteum?
Parturtion
Restraint and control of the animal
PGF
Parathyroid gland
43. If a dairy bull has been genetically tested to determine his genomic make-up - this will be indicated on his pedigree by what letters?
Brown Swiss
Side by side (head out)
Twelve
GTPI
44. Corn silage - stored in upright - top-unloading silos - should be chopped at which percent moisture?
Plant starch - pectin - and sugar
Feed low potassium hay - silage - and anionic salts to dry cows
75%
62 to 65% moisture
45. Normal presentation of a calf for parturition will have...
Two
Holstein
40/60
Front feet toward rear of the cow with head - nose first - between them
46. Dairy Management Inc. introduced the _______ social media program for dairy advocates?
72
Pasteurizing system
MyDairy
GTPI
47. When evaluating a dairy ration - what do the letters TDN stand for?
Total Digestible Nutrients
Ringworm
Increase - 5
Brown Swiss
48. Reduced gestation length and retained placenta typically are the first symptoms of _________________ vitamin deficiency
25-30
Vitamin A
Bovine Viral Diarrhea
Mixer box on a truck or trailer
49. 'Weaver Syndrome' is most often found in the _______________dairy breed?
Sickle hocked
Brown Swiss
Alfalfa and Clover
Roughage
50. On the PDCA Unified Dairy Score Card - the category 'dairy strength' accounts for how many points?
Reduce the incidence of mastitis
Mule-foot
25
Hormones