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Dairy Cattle Basics
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The dairy breed which produces the highest volume of milk is the...
Abomasum
Dairy Farmers of America (DFA)
3 years
Holstein
2. What is the scientific term for birth?
Total Digestible Nutrients
300 + degree
Parturtion
Predicted Transmitting Ability-Type
3. What is a nonfunctional mammary gland called?
Parturtion
Blind quarter
In the cell wall
Preparing cows properly
4. Fear can disrupt milk letdown in a cow. The hormone released that causes this disruption is...
Manure handling procedures
Epinephrine
101.5 degrees F
Guernsey
5. Which of the following is a compartment of the dairy cow's stomach?
Abomasum
87%
Displaced abomasum
2.25
6. What is the most abundant mineral in the body?
Poll
Calcium
Rumen and reticulum
300 + degree
7. On the PDCA Unified Dairy Score Card - the category 'feet and legs' accounts for how many points?
20
Claw
Negative net energy balance
Poll
8. Which of the compartments of a cow's four-compartment stomach acts as the true stomach?
Loin and chine
Abomasum
After 55 days
5
9. Which dairy breed originated in the central part of the European continent?
Brown Swiss
50
Laminitis
Poor
10. The CWT programs stands for Cooperatives Working Together. Which of the following describes the function of this program?
Feed low potassium hay - silage - and anionic salts to dry cows
Solids removal
A national dairy farmer-funded program that is used to help stabilize milk prices
Net Energy
11. When sanitizing milking equipment with water - the temperature must be a minimum of 170 degrees F and the utensils are to be under the flow of water for ____________ minute(s).
5
Dairy Comp 305
70%
25%
12. Which mineral functions in maintaining osmotic pressure - acid-base balance - and body fluid balance?
Sodium
Escherichia coli
Bovine Viral Diarrhea
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.
13. Jersey cattle are characterized by having a ______________ face...
Between 28 to 30 days
Pastuerized Milk Ordinance
Dished
Black leg
14. Fumonsin and zearalenone are examples of...
Administered in the muscle
40 degrees F
Silage
Mycotoxins
15. What percent of the cows feed intake is consumed during the daylight hours?
20 to 24
Fats
Mixer box on a truck or trailer
70%
16. Colostrum has approximately _____ calcium - as does regular milk.
Two times
Nonfat Dry Milk
Cation-Anion Difference
10 days
17. The portion of the milker unit that first receives the milk as it is withdrawn from the cow is the...
400 pounds
Claw
Leukocytes
Escherichia coli
18. The CWT programs stands for Cooperatives Working Together. Which of the following describes the function of this program?
A national dairy farmer-funded program that is used to help stabilize milk prices
1
Very good
10
19. FSIS
18
Bangs
Food safety and Inspection Service
Ringworm
20. What female hormone causes follicles to begin to develop?
Ringworm
Follicle stimulating hormone
Abomasum
Poor
21. Which system of the cow's body is most affected by paratuberculosis?
Loin and chine
Digestive
Streptococus agalactae
10
22. Neospora caninum is a major cause of what in pregnant cows?
Restraint and control of the animal
Abortion
Between 28 to 30 days
A national dairy farmer-funded program that is used to help stabilize milk prices
23. One of the highest heritability traits for milk is...
Parallels out performed herringbones by nearly 8%
Retained placenta
Foreign Agricultural Service
% Protein
24. _________ is a compound that is fermented for flavor in buttermilk and sour cream.
8.62 pounds
Mud - water - and manure
20 to 24
Citrate
25. A disease causing air bubbles under the skin and usually results in rapid death is __________.
50 percent
Parturtion
Epinephrine
Black leg
26. Which part of an animal touches the ground if he/she is walking on a correct set of feet and legs?
Sole
Cheese
Dished
% Degradable proteins
27. Milk sugars are not very soluble. Some people have difficulty hydrolyzing them in their bodies. This problem is called _________________.
Lactose intolerance
Water
Arteries
Heat detection and conception rates
28. Endocrinology is the science dealing with _______________.
70%
Nonprotein nitrogen
Hormones
Rear feet and legs
29. Corn silage - stored in upright - top-unloading silos - should be chopped at which percent moisture?
Parturtion
62 to 65% moisture
60
Roughage
30. What should the pH of a 'close up' Holstein's urine be?
Between 6.0 and 6.5
Cellulose - hemicellulose - and lignin
GTPI
Retained placenta
31. BFP
Loin and chine
Basic Formula Price
Calories
Small intestine
32. When compared to normal corn silage - brown mid-rib corn silage has more energy and high digestibility. This is due largely to its lower content of__________.
Milk fever
20-30%
Lignin
Zinc
33. What is the reasonable score for body condition at mid-lactation?
12-14 weeks
International Dairy Foods Associactions
3.0
Collecting the methane gas being produced and using it as an energy source on the dairy
34. What state agency regulates waste management?
Neutral Detergent Fiber
Feed
Limber leg
Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
35. USDEC
Calories
Low blood levvels of ionized calcium
United States Dairy Export Council
Pasteurizing system
36. Why is fat added to dairy rations?
Udder
Low blood levvels of ionized calcium
Plate chiller
To add a concentrated form of energy
37. To the hundreth - how many pounds of milk are in a gallon?
Post-synch
Gonadotropin Releasing Hormone
8.62 pounds
Holstein
38. What mineral is necessary for hemoglobin formation?
Copper
Bovine Viral Diarrhea
When it is proven that she will breed
Gonadotropin Releasing Hormone
39. The top most part of a cow's head is called the...
Mycobacterium bovis
Rumen and reticulum
Poll
A negatively charged ion
40. Young dairy calves frequently suffer and may die due to scours. The chief cause of deadly scours at this age is...
Calcium
The bacteria Escherichia Coli
100%
Holstein
41. About 90% of U.S. dairies use a __________ milking schedule.
Twelve
Twice/day
4 years
Parturtion
42. The rumen of a mature cow will hold approximately...
Sickle hocked
Sodium Bicarbonate
18
40 gallons
43. According to the NRC - what percent calcium should a dry cow ration contain?
Methane
Parturient paresis
It has a lower vacuum requirement
.39%
44. How many days after breeding can a pregnancy be detected by ultrasound?
Corpus Luteum
Between 28 to 30 days
Rump
9 weeks
45. What is a common name for infectious kerato conjunctivitis?
When it is proven that she will breed
Pink eye
25
Extremely fat
46. Cattle grazing stressed on wilted hybrid sorghum/Johnson grass type pasture - may die as a result of ________________.
Prussic acid poisoning
Hardware disease
Mastitis
Dished
47. Which hormone produced by the uterus causes regression of the corpus luteum?
Lactose intolerance
Prussic acid poisoning
PGF
Nonprotein nitrogen
48. Manure digesters convert _______________ fuel into electricity.
70%
Percentage of Difficult Births in Heifers
Left side of the body
Methane
49. Which one of the following describes biotin?
A B-Vitamin
10
Rump
85
50. FSA
Rumen and reticulum
25
After each use
Farm Service Agency