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Dairy Cattle Basics
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1. 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...
Hormones
Bovine Viral Diarrhea
They may be bothersome to livestock and other animals
Modified Live Virus
2. FARAD
Total Production Index
25 gallons
24 hours
Food Animal Residue Avoidance Databank
3. For best results calves should be fed colostrum within ____ hours of calving...
Side by side (head out)
60 days
6 hours
Body weight
4. It is widely acknowledged that a calcium/phosphorus ration of about ______________ is best for a dairy ration since this mirrors that of the cows' body.
2:1
Pulsator
Left side of the body
50
5. Which system of the cow's body is most affected by paratuberculosis?
Digestive
Front feet toward rear of the cow with head - nose first - between them
You S Animal Health Association
A minimum of every 6 months
6. Alfalfa is an example of ___ in a dairy ration.
305 days
62 to 65% moisture
Prevent ingested metal objects from interfering with the digestive tract or the respiratory system
Roughage
7. What units are used to measure energy?
2000's
750000
Urea
Calories
8. dairy cow may not reach her highest milk yield until she is...
3 years
Sodium Bicarbonate
Dairy Farmers of America (DFA)
5-9 years old
9. %DBH
Feeding the cow
Vibriosis
Percentage of Difficult Births in Heifers
Cheddar
10. What is lactogenesis?
The initiation of milk secretion
A national dairy farmer-funded program that is used to help stabilize milk prices
Side by side (head out)
Poor
11. This vitamin plays a role in the coagulation of blood...
18
Total Production Index
Composting
Vitamin K
12. How frequently should an average freshen?
30 hours
Once every 12 months
6 hours
Inguinal
13. What is lactogenesis?
75%
Allowing them access to their new born calf for the 1st 30 days
The initiation of milk secretion
Increase - 5
14. Which one of the following is the name of the part of the cow's back that lies between the withers and the loin?
National Farmers Organization
Chine
Rumen and reticulum
Manure handling procedures
15. Lactation is unique to _________.
Blind quarter
Back flushing
Mammals
Symbiotic
16. Which of the following diseases is not caused by a virus?
Laminitis
Swollen hock
European Union
3 years
17. The circulatory system of a dairy cow is very important to milk production. A dairy cow must circulate about _________ of blood for each pound of milk produced.
Sodium Bicarbonate
Bovine Viral Diarrhea
Hardware disease
400 pounds
18. 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...
Sodium Bicarbonate
Food safety and Inspection Service
High-producing pregnant cows
Progesterone
19. Rumen bacteria enable dairy cattle to utilize which feed supplement?
Plate chiller
Urea
Nonfat Dry Milk
Attract the opposite sex
20. What is an anion?
In the cell wall
Predicted Transmitting Ability-Type
A negatively charged ion
9 weeks
21. What is the hormone that causes Uterine contractions to assist in parturition?
Oxytocin
The abomasums of a milk fed calf
Extremely fat
Registered Holstein Ancestry
22. What is intra musclular injection?
Administered in the muscle
Between 28 to 30 days
A national dairy farmer-funded program that is used to help stabilize milk prices
Udder
23. How much water can a lactating cow consume in one day?
25 gallons
Cellulose - hemicellulose - and lignin
Listeria
A positively charged ion
24. CCC
Farm Service Agency
During the first pregnancy
14 days
Commodity Credit Corporation
25. A dairyman may milk in a rapid exit barn. This simply means that...
The cows leave the milkers via an alley wide enough to allow 2 or more cows side by side
Lactation records have been adjusted to the same milk fat percentage
When it is proven that she will breed
Beta-carotene
26. The breed of dairy cattle that can be roan - all red - all white - or even spotted red and white is...
5-9 years old
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.
Good plus
Milking Shorthorn
27. When can a heifer calf born twin to a bull be registered?
Pasteurizing system
European Union
Post-synch
When it is proven that she will breed
28. Dairy Farmers frequently place a stomach magnet into their cows to...
Guernsey and Jersey
Prevent ingested metal objects from interfering with the digestive tract or the respiratory system
Faster
Arteries
29. In regards to pedigrees - What is a RHA?
Retained placenta
Cheese
Inguinal
Registered Holstein Ancestry
30. What stomach compartments are not developed in a newborn calf?
Vibriosis
Digestive
50-70
Rumen and reticulum
31. What is a TMR to a dairy person?
1
Vitamin A
Two times
Total Mixed Ration
32. What percent of milk is water?
Small intestine
Decreases - increases
87%
Sterile heifer born twin to a bull
33. A disease transmitted through natural mating which causes abortion - low conception rates - and irregular heat cycles is _____________________.
Left side of the body
Limber leg
Vibriosis
Between 28 to 30 days
34. This vitamin plays a role in the coagulation of blood...
Vitamin K
The abomasums of a milk fed calf
Low blood levvels of ionized calcium
Limber leg
35. The Global Dairy Agenda for Action is a pledge to reduce _______ emissions in an attempt to address global warming?
Stainless steel
Carbon
5000000
15 months
36. All milking equipment must be sanitized...
After each use
Mastitis
72
5
37. In cows - salmonellosis infections are most common in those that have calved within __________.
10 days
GTPI
Cheddar
Esophageal groove
38. When looking at DHI records - what do the letters RHA stand for?
National Farmers Organization
Rolling Herd Average
Limber leg
Recessive
39. Dairy cows produce milk that is relatively high in B complex vitamins. Because they are ruminants...
Dairy Comp 305
Brown Swiss
It is not necessary to supplement the intake of Vitamin B complex
Blind quarter
40. At how many days can pregnancy be detected by palpation?
Between 14 and 35 days
NAtional Research Council
Percentage of Difficult Births in Heifers
To add a concentrated form of energy
41. What does the term freshen mean in relation the dairy production?
A B-Vitamin
To give birth
Drug residue
After 55 days
42. In the ruminant digestive system - which to the following is the name of first section of the small intestine that is connected to the abomasum?
Duodenum
24
A B-Vitamin
62 to 65% moisture
43. IPM
60 days
You S Animal Health Association
Extremely fat
Integrated pest management
44. In what year did the Holstein Association start its program of recording carriers of Undesirable Recessive Traits?
Farm Service Agency
1957
Solids removal
Cation-Anion Difference
45. What type of mastitis is the easiest to cure?
Gonadotropin Releasing Hormone
Streptococus agalactae
Preparing cows properly
Carbon Dioxide Gas
46. After a bulk tank is washed and rinsed - beading of water droplets is a sign of _____.
Fat residue
Commodity Credit Corporation
Oxytocin
5
47. How many days after parturition should you wait before breeding a cow back?
60 days
Feed low potassium hay - silage - and anionic salts to dry cows
A B-Vitamin
Lignin
48. How many chromosomes does the nucleus of each reproductive cell have in dairy cattle?
30
% Degradable proteins
Dairy Farmers of America (DFA)
Negative net energy balance
49. The breed of dairy cattle that can be roan - all red - all white - or even spotted red and white is...
Lignin
Milking Shorthorn
Guernsey
87%
50. Dairy Farmers frequently place a stomach magnet into their cows to...
A national dairy farmer-funded program that is used to help stabilize milk prices
40 degrees F
Prevent ingested metal objects from interfering with the digestive tract or the respiratory system
Parturient paresis
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