Test your basic knowledge |

Dairy Cattle Basics

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. A disease causing air bubbles under the skin and usually results in rapid death is __________.
Reticulum
Black leg
6 hours
20-30%

2. What do nonstructural carbohydrates consist of?
You S Animal Health Association
Plant starch - pectin - and sugar
6 hours
Limber leg

3. What percent moisture should corn silage be chopped at when stored in horizontal bunker silos or bags?
Between 28 to 30 days
Farm Service Agency
70% moisture
30

4. The portion of the ruminant digestive system which consists of many folds of tissue is the...
A national dairy farmer-funded program that is used to help stabilize milk prices
Omasum
Small intestine
Nonstructural Carbohydrates

5. Which trait is worth the most points according to the Dairy Cow Unified Score Card?
3.0
Udder
70%
50-70

6. HTST is a ______________
Feeding the cow
Oxytocin
Pasteurizing system
Alfalfa and Clover

7. Dairy cows produce milk that is relatively high in B complex vitamins. Because they are ruminants...
75%
After each use
Two weeks prior to calving
It is not necessary to supplement the intake of Vitamin B complex

8. Endocrinology is the science dealing with _______________.
100%
Hormones
It has a lower vacuum requirement
Sole

9. Which compartment of a dairy cow's stomach is located closest to the heart and it is a spot where hardware disease occurs?
Reticulum
Feed low potassium hay - silage - and anionic salts to dry cows
Poll
25%

10. The most costly form of mastitis is?
Sole
Decreases - increases
Subclinical
5-9 years old

11. Rotary Parlors or Carousel milk barns have the advantage of being ________________ when compared to other type barns.
After 200 days of lactation
Milking Shorthorn
Faster
305 days

12. When a small metal object punctures the stomach wall and causes an infection - the resulting disease is called____________________.
Two weeks prior to calving
Hardware disease
Symbiotic
Rolling Herd Average

13. Which of the following is not a commonly usedestrus synchronization program for dairy cattle?
1957
Laminitis
Post-synch
Oxytocin

14. Which of the compartments of a cow's four-compartment stomach acts as the true stomach?
Abomasum
Alfalfa and Clover
Mycobacterium Paratuberculosis
90-100

15. When evaluating dairy rations what do the letters NE stand for?
Urea
Net Energy
.39%
Administered via blood vessels

16. The breed of dairy cattle that can be roan - all red - all white - or even spotted red and white is...
Fat
Longer than 1.5 inches
Milking Shorthorn
Corpus Luteum

17. Generally - high-producing Holsteins eat ___________ pounds of dry matter per day?
40 gallons
Vitamin K
To give birth
45-55

18. Limber leg is found most often in the ____________ dairy breed?
6 hours
1
Jersey
24

19. What is the scientific term for birth?
A B-Vitamin
Parturtion
Cystic
The influence of the sire of the cow on calving ease

20. What bacterium causes cattle tuberculosis (TB)?
Reduce the incidence of mastitis
Alfalfa and Clover
Esophageal groove
Mycobacterium bovis

21. What is another term for the lowest lateral regions of the abdomen - near the groin?
Gonadotropin Releasing Hormone
5-9 years old
Inguinal
Progesterone

22. Rumen bacteria enable dairy cattle to utilize which feed supplement?
Digestive
Urea
Registered Holstein Ancestry
Loin and chine

23. Why is fat added to dairy rations?
Plate chiller
Rolling Herd Average
To add a concentrated form of energy
Carbon

24. USDEC
Feed
The initiation of milk secretion
MyDairy
United States Dairy Export Council

25. In regards to dairy production RHA refers to...
By dividing the total amount of milk produced in the past 365 days by the total number of cow years in the herd last year.
72
After 200 days of lactation
Rolling Herd Average

26. A material used in a footbath for cows with foot rot problems is...
A national dairy farmer-funded program that is used to help stabilize milk prices
Cation-Anion Difference
Chine
Copper sulfate

27. Which dairy breed originated in the central part of the European continent?
Brown Swiss
20
Jersey
Mule-foot

28. What is intravenous injection?
% Degradable proteins
Copper sulfate
Administered via blood vessels
Arteries

29. What percent of dry matter in plants is made of carbohydrates?
Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation
Vitamin B
75%
Administered in the muscle

30. Dairy Farmers frequently place a stomach magnet into their cows to...
Prevent ingested metal objects from interfering with the digestive tract or the respiratory system
Rump
Mastitis
8.62 pounds

31. Dairy rations - especially those for high producing cows - may be buffered to maintain a desirable rumen pH. The most common buffering agent for this is...
The tendency for a group of animals to do the same thing at the same time
Sodium Bicarbonate
Roughage
% Protein

32. How is a dairy's RHA calculated?
Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation
By dividing the total amount of milk produced in the past 365 days by the total number of cow years in the herd last year.
Brown Swiss
Retained placenta

33. What is the most essential nutrient in animal feeding animals and maintaining health?
Rear feet and legs
3.5-4.0
Displaced abomasum
Water

34. A dairyman may milk in a rapid exit barn. This simply means that...
Foreign Agricultural Service
Decreases - increases
The cows leave the milkers via an alley wide enough to allow 2 or more cows side by side
Poor

35. Which dairy breed has a restriction for disallowing black markings?
Milking Shorthorn
Collecting the methane gas being produced and using it as an energy source on the dairy
They may be bothersome to livestock and other animals
75-79.9

36. Name the three common places Coliforms are found.
Leukocytes
Mud - water - and manure
Parathyroid gland
Restraint and control of the animal

37. The first feeding of colostrum should equal about ___ percent of the calf's body weight?
Brown Swiss
Milking Shorthorn
XY
5

38. How often will HACCP inspect each Dairy Farm?
Small intestine
Basic Formula Price
A minimum of every 6 months
Water

39. At how many days can pregnancy be detected by palpation?
Relative Forage Value
Citrate
Potassium
Between 14 and 35 days

40. Which one of the following is the name of the part of the cow's back that lies between the withers and the loin?
Chine
5
Nonprotein nitrogen
Nonstructural Carbohydrates

41. This bacteria causes 'Circling Disease' in cattle...
Listeria
GTPI
Sterile heifer born twin to a bull
Two

42. In cows - salmonellosis infections are most common in those that have calved within __________.
10 days
Cystic
Follicle stimulating hormone
70%

43. NFDM
Nonfat Dry Milk
Two times
Vitamin B
9%

44. How many grams of lactose are in an 8 oz. glass of milk?
Mycobacterium Paratuberculosis
Recessive
10
5000000

45. When using a body condition scoring system of 1 to 5 - What does a score of 5 mean?
Extremely fat
Guernsey
European Union
Prevent ingested metal objects from interfering with the digestive tract or the respiratory system

46. When referring to milk test used at the processing plant - What is a DMC?
Udder
Direct Microscopic Counts
Vitamin B
National Milk Producers Federation

47. Milk let down in a dairy cow may be stimulated by...
14 days
North American Free Trade Agreement
Administered under the skin
Feeding the cow

48. Foot Rot is scientifically known as what?
XY
Interdigital phlegmon
Jersey
The cows leave the milkers via an alley wide enough to allow 2 or more cows side by side

49. What machine is used to determine if water has been added to milk?
5-9 years old
3.5-4.0
1
Cryoscope

50. Which one of the following describes biotin?
Negative net energy balance
In the cell wall
Enteritis
A B-Vitamin

Sorry!:) No result found.

Can you answer 50 questions in 15 minutes?

Major Subjects
Tests & Exams AP CLEP DSST GRE SAT GMAT	Certifications CISSP go to https://www.isc2.org/ PMP ITIL RHCE MCTS More...	IT Skills Android Programming Data Modeling Objective C Programming Basic Python Programming Adobe Illustrator More...	Business Skills Advertising Techniques Business Accounting Basics Business Strategy Human Resource Management Marketing Basics More...
Soft Skills Body Language People Skills Public Speaking Persuasion Job Hunting And Resumes More...	Vocabulary GRE Vocab SAT Vocab TOEFL Essential Vocab Basic English Words For All Global Words You Should Know Business English More...	Languages AP German Vocab AP Latin Vocab SAT Subject Test: French Italian Survival Norwegian Survival More...	Engineering Audio Engineering Computer Science Engineering Aerospace Engineering Chemical Engineering Structural Engineering More...
Health Sciences Basic Nursing Skills Health Science Language Fundamentals Veterinary Technology Medical Language Cardiology Clinical Surgery More...	English Grammar Fundamentals Literary And Rhetorical Vocab Elements Of Style Vocab Introduction To English Major Complete Advanced Sentences Literature Homonyms More...	Math Algebra Formulas Basic Arithmetic: Measurements Metric Conversions Geometric Properties Important Math Facts Number Sense Vocab Business Math More...	Other Major Subjects Science Economics History Law Performing-arts Cooking Logic & Reasoning Trivia

Test your basic knowledge |

Dairy Cattle Basics

Sorry!:) No result found.

Can you answer 50 questions in 15 minutes?

Let me suggest you:

Browse all subjects

Browse all tests

Most popular tests

Major Subjects

Tests & Exams

Certifications

IT Skills

Business Skills

Soft Skills

Vocabulary

Languages

Engineering

Health Sciences

English

Math

Other Major Subjects

Browse all subjects

Browse all tests

Most popular tests