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Dairy Cow Industry
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Method of feeding cows aimed at finding their potential to secrete milk and used to prevent metabolic shortage in energy.
Mad Cow Disease
Predicting Transmitting Ability Trait
Udders: 40 % Dairy Character: 20% Frame: 15% Feet and Legs: 15% Body Capacity: 10%
Challenge
2. Agent which destroys worms in digestive tract.
DHI Records
Anthrometics
Bovine Viral Disease
16
3. Caused by a deficiency of iodine in the diet.
Estrogen
4
Hardware Disease
Goiter
4. An infertile female calf born co-twin to a bull.
California
Oxytocin
Guernsey
Freemartin
5. Another name for carousel type milk barn.
Calcium Glucanate
Rotary
DCUS (Dairy Cow Uniform Scorecard)
Anthrax
6. MUN is abbreviation for ___________?
DCUS (Dairy Cow Uniform Scorecard)
Milk Urea Nitrogen
Udders
101.5
7. The dairy breed that is used mostly for milk and veal is _____
CA - AZ - WA - CO
9 -200 -000
Holstein
Mad Cow Disease
8. Describes an animal having a crooked hock - which causes the lower part of the leg to be bent forward out of a normal perpendicular straight line.
Sickle
Anthrax
Babcock
Epinephrine
9. Common name for syndactylism.
Malignant Edema
Guernsey
Mule Foot
Mange
10. Common name for papillomatous digital dermatitis.
Claw
Hairy Foot Wart
Guernsey
Dry
11. The main points of a dairy cow and their perspective points in juding are...
Udders: 40 % Dairy Character: 20% Frame: 15% Feet and Legs: 15% Body Capacity: 10%
Cattle Grubs
Claw
Roundworms
12. Year Babcock Test was developed.
1890
Grass Tetany
4
Somatic
13. Diarrhea.
FCM (Fat Corrected Milk)
Brucellosis
Scours
Mule Foot
14. Hormone stimulates mammary duct development.
AI
16
Milk Fever
Estrogen
15. Age conversion formulas applied to milk production of young cows to compare their milk yield with more mature cows.
Guernsey
9 -200 -000
Mature Equivalent
Predicting Transmitting Ability Trait
16. 'Barn-itch'.
Mange
Bloat
101.5
Malignant Edema
17. An association which dairy farmers join to participate in their record-keeping and management plans and is operated jointly by the USDA and state colleges of agriculture and land-grant universities.
DHIA ( Dairy Herd Improvement Association)
Sarcoptic - Saroptic
305 - 60
Vibriosis
18. The oldest breed of dairy cattle.
Estrogen
Brown Swiss
Bovine Herpes Infectious Virus
Jersey
19. Also known as Red Nose.
Cryptosporidiosis
Anaplasmosis
Mature Equivalent
Bovine Herpes Infectious Virus
20. The Ayrshire breed is colored ____ and white.
Malignant Edema
Guernsey
Goiter
Red
21. Physical conformation of an animal.
DCUS (Dairy Cow Uniform Scorecard)
Type
Brown Swiss
Hardware Disease
22. State producing the most milk (total pounds).
California
Anaplasmosis
Displaced Abomasum
Degraded Intake Protein
23. Most commonly used test for diagnosis of Leptospirosis in cattle.
Milk Fever
Microscopic Agglutination Test
X Disease
Tuberculosis
24. Molds which develop on feed producing toxins.
Myotoxins
Roundworms
Hairy Foot Wart
16
25. The ____ is used by all dairy cattle breed associations as the standard for judging and classifying cattle
DCUS (Dairy Cow Uniform Scorecard)
Red
Claw
Land-Grant Act
26. Metabolic Disease characterized by accessive ketone body formation.
Type Production Index
Johne's
Claw
Ketosis
27. Stiff Lamb - Nutritional Muscular Dystrophy - Caused by a defficiency of Vitamin E or Selenium in dairy calves.
White Muscle Disease
Freemartin
Johne's
Cattle Grubs
28. Parturient paresis.
Mad Cow Disease
2 -180
Milk Fever
Anaplasmosis
29. CSS stands for.
Certified Semen Services
Epinephrine
Red
Liver Fluke
30. Common name for infectious bovine keratonconjuctivitis.
60
Pinkeye
101.5
Milk Fever
31. An example of a trematode.
Displaced Abomasum
Liver Fluke
Milk Fever
Land-Grant Act
32. Adjustment of milk with different fat percentages to equivalent amounts on an energy basis.
Body Conditioning Score
Red Water Disease
DCUS (Dairy Cow Uniform Scorecard)
FCM (Fat Corrected Milk)
33. Naturally hornless.
Holstein
Polled
Type Production Index
Bovine Herpes Infectious Virus
34. Most important type trait in a dairy cow.
Milking Shorthorn
Epinephrine
Udders
Bloat
35. Four of the leading states in milk production are ___ ___ __ __
Trocar
Bovine Viral Disease
CA - AZ - WA - CO
Jersey
36. Spores from this fatal disease can live in the soil for more than 60 years.
Anthrax
Israel
Type
9 -200 -000
37. Syndactylism.
Grass Tetany
Mule Foot
Liver Fluke
Bovine Viral Disease
38. Also called gas gangrene.
Malignant Edema
Certified Semen Services
305 - 60
Scours
39. Caused by the heel fly.
Cattle Grubs
Sarcoptic - Saroptic
Oxytocin
Lumpy Jaw
40. Hormone counteracts milk letdown.
Epinephrine
Lice
Guernsey
101.5
41. _____ and _____ are two reportable external parasites common to dairy and beef cattle.
Epinephrine
Sarcoptic - Saroptic
Bovine Herpes Infectious Virus
Udders
42. Also known as Bovine genital Campylobacteriosis.
Pulsator
Vibriosis
Sickle
Anthrax
43. Cows are usually rebred at ___ days after breeding
DHIA ( Dairy Herd Improvement Association)
60
Degraded Intake Protein
Babcock
44. Mechanism that permits alternating vacuum and atmospheric pressure to exit between the teat cup liner and shell.
Mature Equivalent
Pulsator
Claw
Cattle Grubs
45. Common name for interdigital phlegmon.
CA - AZ - WA - CO
Foot Rot
Type
Hardware Disease
46. Milk is actually secreted in grape-like structures called ____
Certified Semen Services
Predicting Transmitting Ability Trait
Aveoli
Anthrometics
47. Cause of cattle grubs.
Heel Fly
Pulsator
Type Production Index
Certified Semen Services
48. Hormone stimulates milk production.
Prolactin
Mad Cow Disease
Ketosis
Freemartin
49. Hormone stimulates an increase of up to 20% more milk with only 5% more feed.
DCUS (Dairy Cow Uniform Scorecard)
BST (Bovine Somatotropin)
Anthrax
Heel Fly
50. Uses DCADS to minimize incidence of _______?
Sarcoptic - Saroptic
Milk Fever
Displaced Abomasum
Certified Semen Services