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Dairy Cattle Basics

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1. What is another term for the lowest lateral regions of the abdomen - near the groin?
Inguinal
Nitrogen
70% moisture
Brown Swiss

2. BVD
Calories
.39%
20000000
Bovine Viral Diarrhea

3. What is the reasonable score for body condition at mid-lactation?
3.0
Nitrogen excretion
70%
10%

4. BFP
Calories
Basic Formula Price
Body weight
Feed

5. Adequate consumption of long fiber roughage is important to both milk production and herd heath. A long fiber roughage is one that is...
Clipping and singeing
Abomasum
Sole
Longer than 1.5 inches

6. What describes the fraction of the ration proteins - which is broken down by digestive enzymes and utilized by rumen bacteria?
Loin and chine
% Degradable proteins
In the cell wall
Mycobacterium bovis

7. 'Thurl position' is a trait evaluated in the ________ category on the PDCA Unified Scorecard?
Pass from animals to humans and vice versa
Rear feet and legs
Longer than 1.5 inches
To add a concentrated form of energy

8. Many dairy bulls have their nose pierced with a ring in it. This allows for...
18
Cows Milk production this month divided by production last month X 100
Restraint and control of the animal
Udder

9. A dairy expects to cull approximately _________% of their herd each year.
Heat detection and conception rates
Two times
25-30
Restraint and control of the animal

10. Which of the following diseases is not caused by a virus?
70% moisture
Laminitis
Abortion
Poor

11. Lactation is unique to _________.
Energy
Mammals
Decreases - increases
Recessive

12. A dairy cow that has her feet too far forward (under her belly) is said to be...
Parathyroid gland
5
Sickle hocked
Composting

13. The source of rennet (a substance used in cheese making) is...
A national dairy farmer-funded program that is used to help stabilize milk prices
The abomasums of a milk fed calf
282 days
40/60

14. Young dairy calves frequently suffer and may die due to scours. The chief cause of deadly scours at this age is...
Mastitis
Rumen and reticulum
50 percent
The bacteria Escherichia Coli

15. Milk should be below what temperature before it is transferred to a milk truck?
40 degrees F
282 days
Administered via blood vessels
Nitrogen excretion

16. Cattle grazing stressed on wilted hybrid sorghum/Johnson grass type pasture - may die as a result of ________________.
Composting
Dairy character
Sterile heifer born twin to a bull
Prussic acid poisoning

17. Brucellosis is also know as...
Jersey
Bangs
Carbon
35 to 40%

18. The rumen of a cow is located...
Left side of the body
Mud - water - and manure
Pass from animals to humans and vice versa
50-80%

19. Reduced gestation length and retained placenta typically are the first symptoms of _________________ vitamin deficiency
30 hours
Lignin
National Farmers Organization
Vitamin A

20. In what year did the Holstein Association start its program of recording carriers of Undesirable Recessive Traits?
1957
Rear feet and legs
Retained placenta
5

21. What is lactogenesis?
The initiation of milk secretion
Stainless steel
3.0
Hardware disease

22. Fats are broken down by a dairy cow In what part of her body?
Fats
Small intestine
Left side of the body
1

23. The medical name tarsal hygroma - a commonaliment of dairy cows is commonly called...
Swollen hock
To add a concentrated form of energy
Lignin
Abomasum

24. All milking equipment must be sanitized...
Guernsey and Jersey
The cows leave the milkers via an alley wide enough to allow 2 or more cows side by side
Small Intestine
After each use

25. What is the classification for a Holstein cow given the numerical value 80-84.9?
MyDairy
Energy
Prevent ingested metal objects from interfering with the digestive tract or the respiratory system
Good plus

26. What is a cation?
A positively charged ion
Body weight
40 degrees F
Stainless steel

27. One form of biological pest management is a predator insect - that can be bought and released to help control flies at a dairy. Which of these is NOT true about these predators...
They may be bothersome to livestock and other animals
60
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.
Abomasum

28. New computerized robotic milk stations are becoming a reality today. They have different names but one common one is MOD system. MOD means...
Rump
Sodium Bicarbonate
Milk on Demand
Vitamin K

29. Approximately how many gallons of blood pass through the udder for each gallon of milk produced?
Premis ID
400‐500 gallons
Sire conception rate
30 hours

30. Body condition scores form 1 to 5 are used to track herd health and nutrition. Dry cows should have a body score from...
62 to 65% moisture
Epinephrine
3.5-4.0
Mastitis

31. Which hormone produced by the uterus causes regression of the corpus luteum?
24
PGF
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.
It is not necessary to supplement the intake of Vitamin B complex

32. Endocrinology is the science dealing with _______________.
Digestive
Hormones
A negatively charged ion
60 days

33. Milk sugars are not very soluble. Some people have difficulty hydrolyzing them in their bodies. This problem is called _________________.
Lactose intolerance
9 weeks
Decreases - increases
25

34. When a small metal object punctures the stomach wall and causes an infection - the resulting disease is called____________________.
Four or more times
Ringworm
Potassium
Hardware disease

35. High potassium intake will decrease a cows ability to mobilize what?
Bone calcium
Small Intestine
Pass from animals to humans and vice versa
24

36. The topline of a cow is made up of the...
Interdigital phlegmon
Epinephrine
Mastitis
Loin and chine

37. Corn silage - stored in upright - top-unloading silos - should be chopped at which percent moisture?
GTPI
62 to 65% moisture
Jersey
Cheddar cheese

38. Bovine Progressive Degenerative Myeloencephalopathy (BPDME) is better known as Weaver Syndrome because of...
Decreases - increases
During the first pregnancy
The weaving gait of affected cattle
3.0

39. What is an anion?
Large intestines
A negatively charged ion
70%
Follicular and luteal

40. After insemination - how long do sperm live in the cow's reproductive tract?
24 hours
30
Alfalfa and Clover
Clipping and singeing

41. What do nonstructural carbohydrates consist of?
Sodium
75-79.9
Plant starch - pectin - and sugar
80

42. The two U.S. dairy breeds that originated in the Channel Islands off the coast of France are...
Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation
Guernsey and Jersey
30%
Collecting the methane gas being produced and using it as an energy source on the dairy

43. The hooks and pins on an animal relate most closely to the...
Inguinal
High-producing pregnant cows
Rump
Urea

44. Which hormone produced by the uterus causes regression of the corpus luteum?
PGF
20
Cheddar
Dairy Comp 305

45. Milk traits - i.e. fat - protein - SNF and etc. - tend to have a heritability of about...
20-30%
Enteritis
The cows leave the milkers via an alley wide enough to allow 2 or more cows side by side
35 to 40%

46. When is the best time to feed anionic salts to dairy cows?
Bovine Viral Diarrhea
North American Free Trade Agreement
Two weeks prior to calving
Mycobacterium bovis

47. What ration ingredients contain the highest concentration of energy?
12-14 weeks
Fats
Drug residue
Corpus Luteum

48. After a bulk tank is washed and rinsed - beading of water droplets is a sign of _____.
5
Milking Shorthorn
Fat residue
Milk on Demand

49. What manure waste management puts solids in a bin and lets it degrade?
400 pounds
Oxytocin
Guernsey
Composting

50. A material used in a footbath for cows with foot rot problems is...
85
Copper sulfate
The weaving gait of affected cattle
It has a lower vacuum requirement

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