Test your basic knowledge |

Dairy Cow Industry

Subject : industries
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
  • If you are not ready to take this test, you can study here.
  • Match each statement with the correct term.
  • Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.

This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Is the nation with the highest producing dairy cows.






2. Should only be used as a last resort for the treatment of ruminal tymphany.






3. Hormone counteracts milk letdown.






4. Common name for infectious bovine keratonconjuctivitis.






5. Hormone stimulates milk production.






6. The common name for Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE).






7. 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.






8. Syndactylism.






9. Most common limiting nutrient for high milk yield.






10. State with the largest number of dairy cows.






11. Metabolic Disease characterized by accessive ketone body formation.






12. Common name for interdigital phlegmon.






13. Also known as acetonemia.






14. The dairy breed with a golden yellow color to its milk.






15. MUN is abbreviation for ___________?






16. Optinum daylight hours for maximum milk yield.






17. Year Babcock Test was developed.






18. 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.






19. Disease causing chronic diarrhea - weight loss resulting from infection with the bacterium Mycobacterium paratuberculosis.


20. An infertile female calf born co-twin to a bull.






21. Four of the leading states in milk production are ___ ___ __ __






22. Hormone stimulates mammary duct development.






23. Standardization of lactation records to the level of yield that would have been attained by each cow if she had been a mature cow and calved in the month of the year of highest calving frequency for her breed.






24. Period of non-lactation between two periods of lactation.






25. Used to regularly evaluate where an individual cow stands in body condition relative to the ideals for her stage in lactation.






26. The oldest breed of dairy cattle.






27. Holstein Association uses ______________ as a method of ranking bulls on their overall performance.






28. Physical conformation of an animal.






29. PTAT






30. Hormone stimulates an increase of up to 20% more milk with only 5% more feed.






31. Also known as traumatic gastritis.






32. Casting is used as a temporary treatment of this disorder.






33. One of the most commonly diagnosed viruses in bovine abortion cases and easily prevented with vaccination and improved sanitation.






34. Parts blood must pass through the udder to produce milk.






35. Common name for syndactylism.






36. Caused by Actinomy bovis.






37. Count of ____ cells helps determine inflammation of the mammary gland






38. Common name for nematodes.






39. Adjustment of milk with different fat percentages to equivalent amounts on an energy basis.






40. Also known as Red Nose.






41. Caused by Mycobacterium bovis.






42. Viral disorder that causes lesions indistinguishable from those of foot-and-mouth disease.






43. Cows are usually rebred at ___ days after breeding






44. Mechanism that permits alternating vacuum and atmospheric pressure to exit between the teat cup liner and shell.






45. The Ayrshire breed is colored ____ and white.






46. The dairy breed that is used mostly for milk and veal is _____






47. Method of feeding cows aimed at finding their potential to secrete milk and used to prevent metabolic shortage in energy.






48. Agent which destroys worms in digestive tract.






49. A fatal protozoan disease of cattle that destroys the red blood cells - causing anemia and death.






50. Also known as Bacillary hemoglobinuria.