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Dairy Cattle Basics

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1. A condition of low blood calcium - which results in partial paralysis of the cow is known as __________________.
Milk fever
Large intestines
Negative net energy balance
Milking Shorthorn

2. In cows - salmonellosis infections are most common in those that have calved within __________.
Between 14 and 35 days
PGF
10 days
Administered under the skin

3. Which body part is located more towards the front of the animal?
Flank
Brown Swiss
International Dairy Foods Associactions
Four or more times

4. Fermented forage plants relates to...
Silage
90-100
400 pounds
18

5. In reference to reproduction - What does CL stand for?
Dairy character
Jersey
Milking Shorthorn
Corpus Luteum

6. What female hormone causes follicles to begin to develop?
Follicle stimulating hormone
Two times
Silage
750000

7. Lactation is unique to _________.
% Degradable proteins
Mammals
50-70
24

8. Legally you cannot make cottage cheese from raw milk - but you can make _________ from raw milk.
Non-forage Carbohydrates
National Milk Producers Federation
The initiation of milk secretion
Cheddar cheese

9. If the freezing point of a sample of raw milk is above 30 degrees F this indicates...
Post-synch
High % of water
75-79.9
Modified Live Virus

10. At what isoelectric point (point at which proteins have net zero charge) do caseins precipitate?
Attract the opposite sex
25%
PH 4.6
Nonprotein nitrogen

11. The portion of the ruminant digestive system which consists of many folds of tissue is the...
Follicle stimulating hormone
Omasum
Fats
Rear feet and legs

12. What are structural carbohydrates made of?
% Protein
Cellulose - hemicellulose - and lignin
80
Four or more times

13. Milk traits - i.e. fat - protein - SNF and etc. - tend to have a heritability of about...
Foreign Agricultural Service
Four or more times
20-30%
Allowing them access to their new born calf for the 1st 30 days

14. Adequate consumption of long fiber roughage is important to both milk production and herd heath. A long fiber roughage is one that is...
Faster
The bottom most part of the tail
Longer than 1.5 inches
45-55

15. A dairy expects to cull approximately _________% of their herd each year.
Two times
25-30
Mixer box on a truck or trailer
30 hours

16. What is a common name for infectious kerato conjunctivitis?
Pink eye
Holstein
Holstein
Good plus

17. How often will HACCP inspect each Dairy Farm?
Displaced abomasum
Nonfat Dry Milk
A minimum of every 6 months
12-14 weeks

18. What kinds of relationship do cattle and the microorganisms in their rumen share?
Hormones
Front feet toward rear of the cow with head - nose first - between them
Symbiotic
Mixer box on a truck or trailer

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...
They may be bothersome to livestock and other animals
Abomasum
40 gallons
80

20. A dairy cow that has all 8 permanent incisor teeth can be considered to be a minimum of ______________old.
4 years
Rolling Herd Average
Reticulum
10

21. As a rule of thumb when milk production ________ - the milk fat content _______
Decreases - increases
Foreign Agricultural Service
25
Parturient paresis

22. GATT
General Agreement on Tariff and Trade
35 to 40%
Epinephrine
Loin and chine

23. FSIS
Food safety and Inspection Service
Holstein
14 days
Intravenous injection of calcium gluconate

24. What manure waste management puts solids in a bin and lets it degrade?
Pink eye
Nitrogen excretion
Feeding the cow
Composting

25. FARAD
Bovine Somatotropin
Administered under the skin
Fats
Food Animal Residue Avoidance Databank

26. What is the classification for a Holstein cow given the numerical value of less than 70?
Poor
Sickle hocked
Disbudding
Guernsey

27. Which trait is worth the most points according to the Dairy Cow Unified Score Card?
25-30
Lignin
Udder
70% moisture

28. Milk fever is also (scientifically) known as what?
Restraint and control of the animal
Reproductive failure
Dairy character
Parturient paresis

29. Allelomimetic behavior is defined as...
Oxytocin
Dairy character
300 + degree
The tendency for a group of animals to do the same thing at the same time

30. Which dairy breed has a restriction for disallowing black markings?
Limber leg
Displaced abomasum
Heifer
Milking Shorthorn

31. NMPF
Four or more times
Two
National Milk Producers Federation
After each use

32. The Global Dairy Agenda for Action is a pledge to reduce _______ emissions in an attempt to address global warming?
Brucellosis
101.5 degrees F
Carbon
PH 4.6

33. %DBH
Lactose intolerance
In the cell wall
Limber leg
Percentage of Difficult Births in Heifers

34. EU
5
European Union
87%
After 55 days

35. In regards to pedigrees - What is a RHA?
Registered Holstein Ancestry
Milk fever
Jersey
5

36. BFP
4 years
Food safety and Inspection Service
Arteries
Basic Formula Price

37. GnRH
Twice/day
Gonadotropin Releasing Hormone
Sole
30 hours

38. A very popular dairy management software in Texas is...
8.62 pounds
Silage
Dairy Comp 305
Parallels out performed herringbones by nearly 8%

39. The most costly form of mastitis is?
Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
20000000
300 + degree
Subclinical

40. What is an anion?
30 hours
A negatively charged ion
Mastitis
Brown Swiss

41. What percentage of whole milk is fat when compared on a dry matter basis?
282 days
25%
They may be bothersome to livestock and other animals
Intravenous injection of calcium gluconate

42. CCC
High % of water
Lactation records have been adjusted to the same milk fat percentage
Commodity Credit Corporation
3-6 minutes

43. Which of the following is an infectious disease?
Ringworm
Follicular and luteal
Potassium
You S Animal Health Association

44. Rumen bacteria enable dairy cattle to utilize which feed supplement?
Good plus
Urea
Leukocytes
GTPI

45. Corn silage - stored in upright - top-unloading silos - should be chopped at which percent moisture?
The influence of the sire of the cow on calving ease
62 to 65% moisture
In the cell wall
Fat residue

46. What are structural carbohydrates made of?
85
Cellulose - hemicellulose - and lignin
They may be bothersome to livestock and other animals
Total Mixed Ration

47. Dairy Management Inc. introduced the _______ social media program for dairy advocates?
MyDairy
Extremely fat
Integrated pest management
Cryoscope

48. If you add sugar to a milk product - you must ______ the minimum pasteurization temperature by _____ degrees F.
Between 14 and 35 days
The influence of the sire of the cow on calving ease
100
Increase - 5

49. What structural carbohydrate component makes older plants less digestible than younger plants?
Post-synch
Brown Swiss
Lignin
Mycotoxins

50. Which compartment of a dairy cow's stomach is located closest to the heart and it is a spot where hardware disease occurs?
Reticulum
305 days
Brown Swiss
Flank