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Dairy Cattle Basics

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1. What is a common name for infectious kerato conjunctivitis?
Pink eye
General Agreement on Tariff and Trade
Pastuerized Milk Ordinance
Plant starch - pectin - and sugar

2. Which dairy breed has a restriction for disallowing black markings?
Swollen hock
Mycotoxins
Parallels out performed herringbones by nearly 8%
Milking Shorthorn

3. What is a TMR to a dairy person?
Methane
25-30
Total Mixed Ration
3-6 minutes

4. When a cow comes into heat every few days - she is referred to as?
Digestive
Total Digestible Nutrients
Cystic
Abomasum

5. 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
Plate chiller
High % of water
35 to 40%
Total Production Index

6. The annual sale of dairy semen exceeds __________ straws.
Oxytocin
Sole
20000000
A B-Vitamin

7. Bovine Progressive Degenerative Myeloencephalopathy (BPDME) is better known as Weaver Syndrome because of...
4 years
The weaving gait of affected cattle
25
General Agreement on Tariff and Trade

8. Which one of the following is the largest dairy milk marketing cooperative in the U.S.?
Udder - feet and legs - body form - & dairy character
Dairy Farmers of America (DFA)
2:1
2:1

9. Almost 95% of the dairy cows in the U.S. are...
Holstein
Bangs
Brucellosis
Subclinical

10. What state agency regulates waste management?
Recessive
Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
Dairy Comp 305
Swollen hock

11. What is intra musclular injection?
Intravenous injection of calcium gluconate
Four or more times
Administered in the muscle
Non-forage Carbohydrates

12. The breed of dairy cattle that can be roan - all red - all white - or even spotted red and white is...
40 gallons
Heifer
62 to 65% moisture
Milking Shorthorn

13. What kinds of relationship do cattle and the microorganisms in their rumen share?
The weaving gait of affected cattle
Symbiotic
Income over feed costs
Food Animal Residue Avoidance Databank

14. Colostrum has approximately _____ calcium - as does regular milk.
Reproductive failure
3-6 minutes
Two times
No less than 60% moisture

15. All milking equipment must be sanitized...
After each use
Claw
Predicted Transmitting Ability-Type
Drug residue

16. NFDM
Rumen and reticulum
Restraint and control of the animal
Nonfat Dry Milk
10%

17. As a rule of thumb when milk production ________ - the milk fat content _______
Total Production Index
Decreases - increases
Two weeks prior to calving
Brown Swiss

18. Milk with over_____________ somatic cell count cannot legally be shipped in the United States?
Preparing cows properly
Total Mixed Ration
750000
Milking Shorthorn

19. ___________ represents the largest daily input cost in producing milk.
Water
Abomasum
3.0
Feed

20. Which one of the following is the name of the part of the cow's back that lies between the withers and the loin?
Two times
Propionic acid
Parathyroid gland
Chine

21. When examining feed rations - what do the letters NDF stand for?
Nitrogen
Neutral Detergent Fiber
Commodity Credit Corporation
Foreign Agricultural Service

22. Feeding proper rations during the summer is important for both cow comfort and maintaining milk production. Which nutrient is most important during the summer months?
Water
Sickle hocked
Cation-Anion Difference
Bovine Somatotropin

23. Young dairy calves frequently suffer and may die due to scours. The chief cause of deadly scours at this age is...
The influence of the sire of the cow on calving ease
The bacteria Escherichia Coli
High-producing pregnant cows
Cheese

24. What hormone is responsible for maintaining pregnancy?
Arteries
Hormones
Progesterone
Digestive

25. What manure waste management puts solids in a bin and lets it degrade?
Relative Forage Value
Composting
Jersey
Laminitis

26. Cows treated with BST typically show an increase in milk production of...
Twelve
10%
20000000
Parathyroid gland

27. A material used in a footbath for cows with foot rot problems is...
Copper sulfate
Bovine Somatotropin
Alfalfa and Clover
Follicular and luteal

28. If you add sugar to a milk product - you must ______ the minimum pasteurization temperature by _____ degrees F.
Increase - 5
62 to 65% moisture
75-79.9
Vitamin B

29. About 90% of U.S. dairies use a __________ milking schedule.
Nitrogen excretion
Ringworm
After each use
Twice/day

30. Which trait is worth the most points according to the Dairy Cow Unified Score Card?
85
Vitamin A
Predicted Transmitting Ability-Type
Udder

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
Pink eye
Total Production Index
Fat
Calcium

32. CCC
Non-forage Carbohydrates
Brown Swiss
Commodity Credit Corporation
62 to 65% moisture

33. When evaluating a dairy ration - what do the letters TDN stand for?
Udder - feet and legs - body form - & dairy character
Predicted Transmitting Ability-Type
45-55
Total Digestible Nutrients

34. In cows - salmonellosis infections are most common in those that have calved within __________.
10 days
In the cell wall
To add a concentrated form of energy
Disbudding

35. A mutation where a calf is born with a single toe on one or more feet is called...
Mud - water - and manure
15 months
Mule-foot
Urea

36. The two U.S. dairy breeds that originated in the Channel Islands off the coast of France are...
Guernsey and Jersey
10
Cheese
Mammals

37. What is the classification for a Holstein cow given the numerical value 80-84.9?
Dairy Comp 305
Good plus
National Milk Producers Federation
Transponders

38. Which of the following is not a commonly usedestrus synchronization program for dairy cattle?
Udder
Milk fever
Post-synch
Twice/day

39. Fermented forage plants relates to...
It has a lower vacuum requirement
Silage
Vitamin A
Brown Swiss

40. According to recent USDA surveys - What is the most popular age to wean dairy calves?
Jersey
9 weeks
Twelve
Lactose intolerance

41. A condition of low blood calcium - which results in partial paralysis of the cow is known as __________________.
No less than 60% moisture
Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation
Holstein
Milk fever

42. After a bulk tank is washed and rinsed - beading of water droplets is a sign of _____.
75%
Fat residue
Between 14 and 35 days
Fats

43. What kinds of relationship do cattle and the microorganisms in their rumen share?
Symbiotic
Predicted Transmitting Ability-Type
% Degradable proteins
Milking Shorthorn

44. NAFTA
National Farmers Organization
Drug residue
North American Free Trade Agreement
Left side of the body

45. Nutritionists have developed a test to compare one alfalfa sample to another - determining the RFV of each. RFV stands for...
Relative Forage Value
Integrated pest management
300 + degree
Bangs

46. Foot Rot is scientifically known as what?
Side by side (head out)
Interdigital phlegmon
Streptococus agalactae
Mud - water - and manure

47. What is a common name for infectious kerato conjunctivitis?
Pink eye
Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
A B-Vitamin
To add a concentrated form of energy

48. What is subcutaneous injection?
Administered under the skin
282 days
A positively charged ion
Methane

49. The top most part of a cow's head is called the...
70%
Stainless steel
Poll
Mycotoxins

50. How frequently should an average freshen?
High-producing pregnant cows
Once every 12 months
300 + degree
To give birth

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