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Dairy Cattle Basics
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1. Milk with over_____________ somatic cell count cannot legally be shipped in the United States?
2.25
750000
25-30
GTPI
2. Which mineral functions in maintaining osmotic pressure - acid-base balance - and body fluid balance?
25
70% moisture
Sodium
High % of water
3. Texas dairies normally must be permitted by the ___________before they begin operations.
Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
Cystic
Plate chiller
Vitamin A
4. What bacterium causes cattle tuberculosis (TB)?
Prussic acid poisoning
Mycobacterium bovis
Leukocytes
Commodity Credit Corporation
5. Corn silage - stored in upright - top-unloading silos - should be chopped at which percent moisture?
The cows leave the milkers via an alley wide enough to allow 2 or more cows side by side
Percentage of Difficult Births in Heifers
62 to 65% moisture
Reduce the incidence of mastitis
6. When can a heifer calf born twin to a bull be registered?
Streptococus agalactae
Decreases - increases
Total Production Index
When it is proven that she will breed
7. What numerical value does a Holstein cow get when given the classification good?
5
25%
NAtional Research Council
75-79.9
8. How often will HACCP inspect each Dairy Farm?
A minimum of every 6 months
Niacin
Net Energy
Leukocytes
9. A switch on a cow is...
The bottom most part of the tail
Poll
After 200 days of lactation
305 days
10. BFP
Gonadotropin Releasing Hormone
20 to 24
Brown Swiss
Basic Formula Price
11. FSA
Poll
Twelve
Extremely fat
Farm Service Agency
12. CCC
Dairy Comp 305
10
12-14 weeks
Commodity Credit Corporation
13. If you add sugar to a milk product - you must ______ the minimum pasteurization temperature by _____ degrees F.
Increase - 5
4 years
Copper sulfate
Administered in the muscle
14. How much more energy do fats contain per unit the carbohydrates and proteins?
Energy
Recessive
Faster
2.25
15. On average - how many weekd after freshening does a cow's dry matter intake peak?
Lignin
A B-Vitamin
Left side of the body
12-14 weeks
16. Dairy cows produce milk that is relatively high in B complex vitamins. Because they are ruminants...
To give birth
Vitamin B
Lignin
It is not necessary to supplement the intake of Vitamin B complex
17. When doing classification scoring - a cow given the numerical value of 85-89.9 is classified as...
Escherichia coli
Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
400 pounds
Very good
18. A mutation where calves have little or no control over the movement of their legs is called...
Brown Swiss
Restraint and control of the animal
3 years
Limber leg
19. Which one of the following is not classified as a fat‐soluble vitamin?
Silage
A national dairy farmer-funded program that is used to help stabilize milk prices
Vitamin B
300 + degree
20. This bacteria causes 'Circling Disease' in cattle...
High % of water
Parallels out performed herringbones by nearly 8%
Listeria
Bovine Viral Diarrhea
21. EU
Guernsey
Solids removal
European Union
Oxytocin
22. Which body part is located more towards the front of the animal?
70%
Flank
Dairy Comp 305
Milking Shorthorn
23. NFDM
Good plus
Premis ID
Restraint and control of the animal
Nonfat Dry Milk
24. Rumen bacteria enable dairy cattle to utilize which feed supplement?
Urea
General Agreement on Tariff and Trade
400‐500 gallons
Milk on Demand
25. Brucellosis is also know as...
Decreases - increases
Bangs
40 degrees F
Pulsator
26. When evaluating dairy rations what do the letters NE stand for?
Fat
Net Energy
87%
Retained placenta
27. Some Texas dairymen are placing Bermuda and/or corn forage into ______________ for fermentation and silage production.
Large Plastic Bags
Preparing cows properly
Potassium
Displaced abomasum
28. Colostrum given to a baby calf more than ____________hours old is NOT absorbed and thus does little good.
Preparing cows properly
Inguinal
A national dairy farmer-funded program that is used to help stabilize milk prices
24
29. The typical lactation curve shows a dairy cow reaching her peak production about ________days into the lactation cycle.
50-70
Vitamin A
GTPI
Basic Formula Price
30. Cow comfort has been linked to milk production in numerous research studies. Not an example of a way to improve cow comfort used by dairymen?
16-18
Hormones
Copper
Allowing them access to their new born calf for the 1st 30 days
31. Dairy cattle have a ________ field of vision to their front
Between 28 to 30 days
Negative net energy balance
Farm Service Agency
300 + degree
32. What bacterium causes Johne's disease in cattle?
Mycobacterium Paratuberculosis
Roughage
40/60
Drug residue
33. What is the reasonable score for body condition at mid-lactation?
Parturient paresis
3.0
14 days
5
34. Which dairy breed's milk is golden-yellow in color?
Guernsey
Magnesium
Esophageal groove
Twelve
35. The Global Dairy Agenda for Action is a pledge to reduce _______ emissions in an attempt to address global warming?
Administered under the skin
80
Carbon
3.5-4.0
36. Adequate consumption of long fiber roughage is important to both milk production and herd heath. A long fiber roughage is one that is...
Vitamin A
After each use
Cows Milk production this month divided by production last month X 100
Longer than 1.5 inches
37. Name the three common places Coliforms are found.
Animal Improvement Program Lab
Abortion
10%
Mud - water - and manure
38. Recent research traits have shown that dairy cows prefer to be milked __________ times/day if they are able to choose.
Four or more times
Administered in the muscle
Reproductive failure
Milking Shorthorn
39. What breed is known to produce milk over a greater number of years than all other breeds?
Parturient paresis
Increase - 5
Corpus Luteum
Brown Swiss
40. The breed of dairy cow generally credited with producing the highest % of both milk fat and protein is the...
Epinephrine
Jersey
1
Milk on Demand
41. BFP
Holstein
Basic Formula Price
Feed
282 days
42. Ways to avoid milk fever in cows
Feed low potassium hay - silage - and anionic salts to dry cows
Dairy Farmers of America (DFA)
75-79.9
A negatively charged ion
43. A disease transmitted through natural mating which causes abortion - low conception rates - and irregular heat cycles is _____________________.
Cows Milk production this month divided by production last month X 100
Vibriosis
72
To give birth
44. The medical name tarsal hygroma - a commonaliment of dairy cows is commonly called...
You S Animal Health Association
Swollen hock
After each use
62 to 65% moisture
45. 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
1957
Two times
Epinephrine
46. Some Texas dairymen are placing Bermuda and/or corn forage into ______________ for fermentation and silage production.
Large Plastic Bags
Large intestines
Flank
To add a concentrated form of energy
47. Protein is a combination of amino acids. The amino acids are unique among compounds involved in nutrition because they contaIn what element?
Nitrogen
Digital Dermatitis
Milking Shorthorn
Composting
48. The rumen of a mature cow will hold approximately...
Twelve
40 gallons
Mycotoxins
Abomasum
49. Which of the following is an infectious disease?
Ringworm
Poor
Milk fever
Sickle hocked
50. The rumen of a cow is located...
Potassium
Left side of the body
International Dairy Foods Associactions
Leukocytes
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