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. Caused by the heel fly.






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






3. Normal rectal temperature of a dairy cow.






4. Most commonly used test for diagnosis of Leptospirosis in cattle.






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






6. Also known as Bovine genital Campylobacteriosis.






7. Syndactylism.






8. Another name for carousel type milk barn.






9. An example of a trematode.






10. Most common limiting nutrient for high milk yield.






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






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






13. Intake protein that is broken down by microorganisms in the rumen.






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






15. Is the nation with the highest producing dairy cows.






16. A chamber that connects the four teat cups to the milk line.






17. The world record/ cow/ year for milk yield (in pounds).






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






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






20. Also known as Red Nose.






21. Stiff Lamb - Nutritional Muscular Dystrophy - Caused by a defficiency of Vitamin E or Selenium in dairy calves.






22. Also known as hyperkeratosis.






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. Optinum daylight hours for maximum milk yield.






25. Milking cows are usually milked ____ days and 'dried up' ___ days before the next lactation






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






27. Spores from this fatal disease can live in the soil for more than 60 years.






28. Common name for ruminal tymphany.






29. Also known as Bacillary hemoglobinuria.






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






31. Established colleges of agriculture in each state.






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






33. Parturient paresis.






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






35. Hormone counteracts milk letdown.






36. Age conversion formulas applied to milk production of young cows to compare their milk yield with more mature cows.






37. 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.






38. Cause of cattle grubs.






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






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






41. Recommended method for dairy cattle.






42. _____ and _____ are two reportable external parasites common to dairy and beef cattle.






43. Molds which develop on feed producing toxins.






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






45. Agent which destroys worms in digestive tract.






46. State with the largest number of dairy cows.






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






48. 'Barn-itch'.






49. Hormone stimulates milk production.






50. Test for determination of BF% in milk.