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Dairy Cattle Basics

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1. Fermented forage plants relates to...
Silage
Reduce the incidence of mastitis
Streptococus agalactae
A national dairy farmer-funded program that is used to help stabilize milk prices

2. One of the highest heritability traits for milk is...
% Protein
Two
Pulsator
Rumen and reticulum

3. 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 ____
25-30
Mastitis
Beta-carotene
Laminitis

4. The hormone BST is given to dairy cows...
60 days
Rumen
After 200 days of lactation
Bovine Viral Diarrhea

5. What hormone is responsible for maintaining pregnancy?
Dairy Farmers of America (DFA)
Water
Dairy Comp 305
Progesterone

6. Which of the following is the most popular type of cheese in the United States?
Flank
Cheddar
Claw
100%

7. Which of the compartments of a cow's four-compartment stomach acts as the true stomach?
100
After each use
Abomasum
Beta-carotene

8. What percent of milk is water?
% Degradable proteins
The influence of the sire of the cow on calving ease
87%
60 days

9. What numerical value does a Holstein cow get when given the classification excellent?
90-100
A positively charged ion
Dairy character
Flank

10. What numerical value does a Holstein cow get when given the classification good?
Restraint and control of the animal
Plant starch - pectin - and sugar
Faster
75-79.9

11. Adequate consumption of long fiber roughage is important to both milk production and herd heath. A long fiber roughage is one that is...
Manure handling procedures
Jersey
Longer than 1.5 inches
Poll

12. Dairy cows produce milk that is relatively high in B complex vitamins. Because they are ruminants...
It is not necessary to supplement the intake of Vitamin B complex
Mixer box on a truck or trailer
25%
Cystic

13. The hooks and pins on an animal relate most closely to the...
Collecting the methane gas being produced and using it as an energy source on the dairy
Rump
Leukocytes
Manure handling procedures

14. What percentage of whole milk is fat when compared on a dry matter basis?
Calories
Carbon
25%
Negative net energy balance

15. What bacterium causes cattle tuberculosis (TB)?
Dished
Nitrogen excretion
Mycobacterium bovis
General Agreement on Tariff and Trade

16. When a small metal object punctures the stomach wall and causes an infection - the resulting disease is called____________________.
United States Dairy Export Council
Hardware disease
Digestive
Vitamin A

17. FSIS
Abomasum
Back flushing
Food safety and Inspection Service
NAtional Research Council

18. What manure waste management method runs manure across a press and squeezes the water out?
Post-synch
Solids removal
Sodium Bicarbonate
Two weeks prior to calving

19. Texas dairies normally must be permitted by the ___________before they begin operations.
National Milk Producers Federation
GTPI
Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
75%

20. What is the USDA's AIPL?
16-18
Solids removal
Animal Improvement Program Lab
Administered via blood vessels

21. A cow with high lactation persistence is important for a dairy's economic success. Lactation persistency is...
1957
Cows Milk production this month divided by production last month X 100
Dairy Farmers of America (DFA)
A B-Vitamin

22. How many das into a pregnancy can a fetus be sexed by ultrasound?
After 55 days
3 years
Intravenous injection of calcium gluconate
Abomasum

23. Which mineral is found in high concentrations in soft tissues such as the pancreas - liver - and kidney?
Zinc
Omasum
Propionic acid
Fats

24. What are structural carbohydrates made of?
1
Citrate
Composting
Cellulose - hemicellulose - and lignin

25. In dairy cows - What is the name of the disease caused by the organisms Staph Aureus - Strep Uberis - and Klebsiella?
80
Mastitis
Pink eye
Dished

26. Nutritionists have developed a test to compare one alfalfa sample to another - determining the RFV of each. RFV stands for...
Magnesium
Modified Live Virus
Relative Forage Value
Dairy Comp 305

27. What is Milk Fever paresis caused by?
Low blood levvels of ionized calcium
Parathyroid gland
Jersey
85

28. The number one reason for culling in U.S. dairy herds is...
Reproductive failure
Clipping and singeing
Subclinical
Lactose intolerance

29. When referring to rations - what do the letters NFC stand for?
62 to 65% moisture
Non-forage Carbohydrates
Foreign Agricultural Service
Hormones

30. Heart girth measurements of cows may be used to estimate...
70%
Pulsator
PH 4.6
Body weight

31. Why is fat added to dairy rations?
To add a concentrated form of energy
Hormones
The bottom most part of the tail
Basic Formula Price

32. 98% of somatic cells are...
Leukocytes
20
Cheese
Left side of the body

33. What percent of dry matter in plants is made of carbohydrates?
75%
Rear feet and legs
Sterile heifer born twin to a bull
Swollen hock

34. The hormone BST is given to dairy cows...
Small intestine
25 gallons
750000
After 200 days of lactation

35. The first feeding of colostrum should equal about ___ percent of the calf's body weight?
Ringworm
5
Nonfat Dry Milk
10 days

36. A perfect score for a cow according to the Dairy Cow Unified Score Card is...
Abomasum
Fat residue
Symbiotic
100

37. Milk traits - i.e. fat - protein - SNF and etc. - tend to have a heritability of about...
Restraint and control of the animal
Nonstructural Carbohydrates
72
20-30%

38. What is intra musclular injection?
1
Administered in the muscle
80
Sickle hocked

39. A mutation where a calf is born with a single toe on one or more feet is called...
The abomasums of a milk fed calf
Mule-foot
Clipping and singeing
50

40. For best results calves should be fed colostrum within ____ hours of calving...
6 hours
% Protein
1
25%

41. The medical name tarsal hygroma - a commonaliment of dairy cows is commonly called...
Beta-carotene
Swollen hock
50
% Protein

42. What is the approximate time of ovulation in cattle after the beginning of heat?
10
30 hours
Epinephrine
Fats

43. Research has shown that by formulating lactating cow rations with proper amounts of certain amino acids - we can decrease the crude protein content of the ration and reduce _______________________?
Nitrogen excretion
The tendency for a group of animals to do the same thing at the same time
After each use
Rolling Herd Average

44. A material used in a footbath for cows with foot rot problems is...
Copper sulfate
400 pounds
Vitamin A
Dairy Farmers of America (DFA)

45. What is the scientific term for birth?
Parturtion
Modified Live Virus
Black leg
Administered in the muscle

46. Lactation is unique to _________.
Mammals
Guernsey
Manure handling procedures
10

47. 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.
8.62 pounds
60 days
NAtional Research Council
2:1

48. What are the four composite indexes calculated by the Holstein Association?
40 gallons
Udder - feet and legs - body form - & dairy character
5-9 years old
Feed low potassium hay - silage - and anionic salts to dry cows

49. What kinds of relationship do cattle and the microorganisms in their rumen share?
The bacteria Escherichia Coli
Symbiotic
Total Production Index
Urea

50. What percent moisture should corn silage be chopped at when stored in horizontal bunker silos or bags?
Feed
The cows leave the milkers via an alley wide enough to allow 2 or more cows side by side
70% moisture
5-9 years old

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