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Dairy Cattle Basics
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What is a nonfunctional mammary gland called?
Brown Swiss
Beta-carotene
Blind quarter
MyDairy
2. What combines the Predicted Transmitting Ability for protein - fat - type and udder composite index and ranks the animal on its ability to transmit a balance of these four traits
Total Production Index
Potassium
Reproductive failure
The weaving gait of affected cattle
3. Dairy cattle frequently develop milk fever shortly after calving. They become immobile - comatose - and may die without treatment. The treatment typically involves...
During the first pregnancy
Twelve
5-9 years old
Intravenous injection of calcium gluconate
4. _________ is a compound that is fermented for flavor in buttermilk and sour cream.
Retained placenta
62 to 65% moisture
10 days
Citrate
5. Where are non-degradable proteins absorbed?
Predicted Transmitting Ability-Type
Limber leg
Bone calcium
Small Intestine
6. Which mineral functions in maintaining osmotic pressure - acid-base balance - and body fluid balance?
12-14 weeks
It has a lower vacuum requirement
Sodium
Enteritis
7. All U.S. dairy farms are inspected by state inspectors through a program coordinated by the Food and Drug Administration. Inspectors follow a publication called the PMO. What does PMO stand for?
Side by side (head out)
Jersey
Pastuerized Milk Ordinance
Abomasum
8. What is lactogenesis?
The initiation of milk secretion
After 55 days
Mixer box on a truck or trailer
Ringworm
9. A ____________ is usually necessary when feeding Dairy Cows TMR rations.
Abomasum
Recessive
Farm Service Agency
Mixer box on a truck or trailer
10. Which major dairy breed association was the first to use computers to maintain breed registry records?
Roughage
Copper sulfate
Guernsey
Total Digestible Nutrients
11. What numerical value does a Holstein cow get when given the classification good?
Abomasum
Clipping and singeing
Jersey
75-79.9
12. This vitamin plays a role in the coagulation of blood...
Vitamin K
Leukocytes
Food Animal Residue Avoidance Databank
Milking Shorthorn
13. Which of the following is an infectious disease?
Ringworm
The cows leave the milkers via an alley wide enough to allow 2 or more cows side by side
Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
Integrated pest management
14. Corn silage stored in sealed upright silos should be ensiled at what moisture?
No less than 60% moisture
Pass from animals to humans and vice versa
Reproductive failure
90-100
15. GnRH
Flank
Udder
Roughage
Gonadotropin Releasing Hormone
16. Milk with over_____________ somatic cell count cannot legally be shipped in the United States?
750000
Copper
Epinephrine
Neutral Detergent Fiber
17. BVD
Jersey
Bovine Viral Diarrhea
Feed low potassium hay - silage - and anionic salts to dry cows
Claw
18. In the reproductive tract of a dairy cow - how many uterine horns are there?
To give birth
Two
Bovine Somatotropin
Mycobacterium bovis
19. An average Holstein cow should give _______ pounds per day for each lactation.
50
Arteries
Preparing cows properly
3-6 minutes
20. Milk that is low in SCC has more casein - which is a primary component in _______?
The tendency for a group of animals to do the same thing at the same time
Bovine Somatotropin
Rump
Cheese
21. Manure digesters convert _______________ fuel into electricity.
Mud - water - and manure
Lactation records have been adjusted to the same milk fat percentage
Methane
Body weight
22. Which hormone produced by the uterus causes regression of the corpus luteum?
MyDairy
Percentage of Difficult Births in Heifers
PGF
15 months
23. What is a nonfunctional mammary gland called?
Animal Improvement Program Lab
PGF
Blind quarter
The bacteria Escherichia Coli
24. What is the accepted standard length for a lactation record in dairy cattle?
Modified Live Virus
Restraint and control of the animal
Total Production Index
305 days
25. The rear quarters produce __________% of the daily milk yield.
60
Bangs
100
A negatively charged ion
26. Cows treated with BST typically show an increase in milk production of...
10%
Dairy Farmers of America (DFA)
Jersey
After 55 days
27. Brucellosis is also know as...
Mycotoxins
Bangs
Cryoscope
Water
28. High potassium intake will decrease a cows ability to mobilize what?
Limber leg
Heifer
Bone calcium
Interdigital phlegmon
29. The standard length of the dry period in dairy cattle is ________?
4 years
Feed low potassium hay - silage - and anionic salts to dry cows
Milking Shorthorn
60 days
30. USDEC
United States Dairy Export Council
Cheddar cheese
Neutral Detergent Fiber
Manure handling procedures
31. What combines the Predicted Transmitting Ability for protein - fat - type and udder composite index and ranks the animal on its ability to transmit a balance of these four traits
Feed low potassium hay - silage - and anionic salts to dry cows
Copper
Total Production Index
20-30%
32. %DBH
75%
Side by side (head out)
Percentage of Difficult Births in Heifers
Symbiotic
33. Neospora caninum is a major cause of what in pregnant cows?
Fat
Abortion
Bovine Viral Diarrhea
3.0
34. When discussing feed mixers - What is the range of manufacturers recommmended mixing times?
Carbon Dioxide Gas
Cystic
35 to 40%
3-6 minutes
35. Approximately how many gallons of blood pass through the udder for each gallon of milk produced?
Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation
400‐500 gallons
75-79.9
Fat residue
36. A calf's birth weight is approximately ________% of its' mature weight.
Mycobacterium Paratuberculosis
5
Vitamin A
Arteries
37. Grass Tetany may occur in early lactation cows grazing lush - heavily - fertilized pastures. Grass Tetany is caused by a ______________deficiency.
Magnesium
Administered under the skin
Transponders
Carbon
38. IDFA
2:1
750000
Poor
International Dairy Foods Associactions
39. FSIS
Two
Swollen hock
Food safety and Inspection Service
Interdigital phlegmon
40. A Milking herd's TMR should be available to cows how many hours throughout the day?
Relative Forage Value
5
National Farmers Organization
20 to 24
41. Name the three common places Coliforms are found.
Pastuerized Milk Ordinance
Laminitis
Mud - water - and manure
Mule-foot
42. A bovine female which has not had a calf is a...
Basic Formula Price
10
Heifer
% Protein
43. PTAT
Nonstructural Carbohydrates
Poll
% Degradable proteins
Predicted Transmitting Ability-Type
44. The top most part of a cow's head is called the...
High % of water
Alfalfa and Clover
Poll
Holstein
45. 'Thurl position' is a trait evaluated in the ________ category on the PDCA Unified Scorecard?
5
Rear feet and legs
Holstein
Faster
46. If there are large numbers of flies around the dairy barn - what should be the first thing to be examined in an attempt to solve the fly problem?
Cheese
750000
Jersey
Manure handling procedures
47. What structural carbohydrate component makes older plants less digestible than younger plants?
25-30
Integrated pest management
Lignin
Attract the opposite sex
48. Lactation is unique to _________.
Negative net energy balance
Mammals
Large intestines
Back flushing
49. Endocrinology is the science dealing with _______________.
25
Hormones
Two weeks prior to calving
Cheese
50. On the PDCA Unified Dairy Score Card - the category 'dairy strength' accounts for how many points?
Limber leg
Low blood levvels of ionized calcium
25
% Protein