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Dairy Cattle Basics
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1. Generally - high-producing Holsteins eat ___________ pounds of dry matter per day?
45-55
Low blood levvels of ionized calcium
75-79.9
62 to 65% moisture
2. In a cow - where would you find the alveolus?
Decreases - increases
Citrate
Udder
10%
3. This vitamin plays a role in the coagulation of blood...
Small Intestine
Vitamin K
Carbon
Pink eye
4. Which cows have higher protein requirements?
100
Very good
High-producing pregnant cows
Silage
5. Manure digesters convert _______________ fuel into electricity.
European Union
Animal Improvement Program Lab
Methane
10
6. What do nonstructural carbohydrates consist of?
Plant starch - pectin - and sugar
Rolling Herd Average
Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation
Transponders
7. The most common pathogen found in raw milk is...
Large Plastic Bags
Escherichia coli
Mud - water - and manure
282 days
8. A very popular dairy management software in Texas is...
Allowing them access to their new born calf for the 1st 30 days
Dairy Comp 305
A minimum of every 6 months
Jersey
9. If the heat detection rate is 30% and the conception rate is 30% - What is the pregnancy rate?
Blind quarter
6 hours
3-6 minutes
9%
10. Heart girth measurements of cows may be used to estimate...
Feed
Decreases - increases
70% moisture
Body weight
11. What is a nonfunctional mammary gland called?
Blind quarter
Digital Dermatitis
Copper sulfate
35 to 40%
12. PTAT
Percentage of Difficult Births in Heifers
Extremely fat
Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation
Predicted Transmitting Ability-Type
13. Which one of the following is the largest dairy milk marketing cooperative in the U.S.?
Dairy Farmers of America (DFA)
Cryoscope
Milk on Demand
National Milk Producers Federation
14. Rotary Parlors or Carousel milk barns have the advantage of being ________________ when compared to other type barns.
Intravenous injection of calcium gluconate
Fats
Faster
Lignin
15. How many chromosomes does the nucleus of each reproductive cell have in dairy cattle?
30
Left side of the body
The cows leave the milkers via an alley wide enough to allow 2 or more cows side by side
Cellulose - hemicellulose - and lignin
16. 98% of somatic cells are...
30 hours
Duodenum
Leukocytes
Modified Live Virus
17. What is lactogenesis?
Reduce the incidence of mastitis
XY
Ringworm
The initiation of milk secretion
18. When does the greatest mammary tissue growth occur during a cow's life?
Alfalfa and Clover
Abomasum
During the first pregnancy
Enteritis
19. Producers using BST must give their cows an injection of it every...
Parturient paresis
Epinephrine
14 days
Total Mixed Ration
20. Young dairy calves frequently suffer and may die due to scours. The chief cause of deadly scours at this age is...
Premis ID
The bacteria Escherichia Coli
18
A B-Vitamin
21. New computerized robotic milk stations are becoming a reality today. They have different names but one common one is MOD system. MOD means...
Displaced abomasum
Sterile heifer born twin to a bull
Milk on Demand
Heat detection and conception rates
22. Normal presentation of a calf for parturition will have...
Transponders
Front feet toward rear of the cow with head - nose first - between them
Sodium Bicarbonate
40 degrees F
23. Regarding feed formulation - What does CAD stand for?
Fat
Cation-Anion Difference
Abomasum
Hormones
24. Foot Rot is scientifically known as what?
12-14 weeks
The influence of the sire of the cow on calving ease
Interdigital phlegmon
14 days
25. What manure waste management method runs manure across a press and squeezes the water out?
Solids removal
Fat residue
Mycobacterium Paratuberculosis
A positively charged ion
26. Dairy Farmers frequently place a stomach magnet into their cows to...
Swollen hock
Prevent ingested metal objects from interfering with the digestive tract or the respiratory system
Mammals
2:1
27. What is the hormone that causes Uterine contractions to assist in parturition?
Preparing cows properly
Basic Formula Price
Oxytocin
Fats
28. Adequate consumption of long fiber roughage is important to both milk production and herd heath. A long fiber roughage is one that is...
Longer than 1.5 inches
Back flushing
Drug residue
Brown Swiss
29. When reffering to vaccinations - what do the letters MLV stand for?
Swollen hock
Sodium Bicarbonate
6 hours
Modified Live Virus
30. About 90% of U.S. dairies use a __________ milking schedule.
5000000
Twice/day
2000's
Recessive
31. FARAD
Pasteurizing system
Sickle hocked
Food Animal Residue Avoidance Databank
Calories
32. Which one of the following is not classified as a fatāsoluble vitamin?
Heifer
Pink eye
Between 28 to 30 days
Vitamin B
33. After a bulk tank is washed and rinsed - beading of water droplets is a sign of _____.
National Farmers Organization
Fat residue
Mixer box on a truck or trailer
The initiation of milk secretion
34. What hormone is responsible for maintaining pregnancy?
Sole
Cystic
Progesterone
Heat detection and conception rates
35. What is the USDA's AIPL?
Urea
40/60
Twelve
Animal Improvement Program Lab
36. The topline of a cow is made up of the...
Loin and chine
XY
Premis ID
Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
37. Recent research traits have shown that dairy cows prefer to be milked __________ times/day if they are able to choose.
Large Plastic Bags
20 to 24
Four or more times
Good plus
38. A dairy cow that has her feet too far forward (under her belly) is said to be...
2.25
Relative Forage Value
Sickle hocked
2.25
39. Cattle grazing stressed on wilted hybrid sorghum/Johnson grass type pasture - may die as a result of ________________.
9%
Once every 12 months
Cystic
Prussic acid poisoning
40. The annual sale of dairy semen exceeds __________ straws.
Brucellosis
20000000
Sterile heifer born twin to a bull
Swollen hock
41. Milk fever is also (scientifically) known as what?
General Agreement on Tariff and Trade
Progesterone
Parturient paresis
Water
42. Proponents of global warming having accused cows of being a major factor. This is due to their release of...
Nonprotein nitrogen
Carbon Dioxide Gas
Restraint and control of the animal
101.5 degrees F
43. According to recent USDA surveys - What is the most popular age to wean dairy calves?
A negatively charged ion
9 weeks
Disbudding
Displaced abomasum
44. What is the largest cost on most U.S. dairy farms?
Feed
2000's
Foreign Agricultural Service
Relative Forage Value
45. A bovine female which has not had a calf is a...
16-18
Bone calcium
Transponders
Heifer
46. dairy cow may not reach her highest milk yield until she is...
5-9 years old
Parallels out performed herringbones by nearly 8%
Pink eye
60 days
47. Ways to avoid milk fever in cows
Feed low potassium hay - silage - and anionic salts to dry cows
European Union
Symbiotic
Extremely fat
48. When referring to milk test used at the processing plant - What is a DMC?
The tendency for a group of animals to do the same thing at the same time
Subclinical
Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation
Direct Microscopic Counts
49. The major advantage of a 'low-line' milk line as compared to the older 'high-line' is...
Recessive
It has a lower vacuum requirement
Listeria
Transponders
50. In the ruminant digestive system - which to the following is the name of first section of the small intestine that is connected to the abomasum?
Duodenum
Total Mixed Ration
GTPI
Direct Microscopic Counts