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Dairy Cattle Basics

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1. A disease transmitted through natural mating which causes abortion - low conception rates - and irregular heat cycles is _____________________.
Digestive
Cystic
Vibriosis
30

2. Normal presentation of a calf for parturition will have...
Collecting the methane gas being produced and using it as an energy source on the dairy
Front feet toward rear of the cow with head - nose first - between them
Farm Service Agency
Listeria

3. PTAT
Milk fever
National Farmers Organization
Registered Holstein Ancestry
Predicted Transmitting Ability-Type

4. What is lactogenesis?
Corpus Luteum
Epinephrine
The initiation of milk secretion
United States Dairy Export Council

5. A Babcock test may be used to measure the __________ % of milk.
Rumen and reticulum
Udder
Fat
Abomasum

6. When can a heifer calf born twin to a bull be registered?
5
Parallels out performed herringbones by nearly 8%
87%
When it is proven that she will breed

7. Quality forage is critical for acow's milk production. Many people evaluate hay based upon its green color; others think the color is a poor indication of nutrient composition. However - green colored hay is generally considered to have a higher ____
Udder - feet and legs - body form - & dairy character
Beta-carotene
Twice/day
Symbiotic

8. Dairy cattle have a ________ field of vision to their front
300 + degree
Intravenous injection of calcium gluconate
Omasum
Mastitis

9. Neospora caninum is a major cause of what in pregnant cows?
It is not necessary to supplement the intake of Vitamin B complex
Abortion
Retained placenta
Two

10. How is a dairy's RHA calculated?
Holstein
Zinc
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.
Urea

11. NFDM
Hardware disease
Nonfat Dry Milk
Net Energy
Nonprotein nitrogen

12. Milk fever is also (scientifically) known as what?
Guernsey
Parturient paresis
Mastitis
Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation

13. What percent non-fiber carbohydrate should a ration contain for high producing cows?
Gonadotropin Releasing Hormone
2.25
35 to 40%
A positively charged ion

14. Adequate consumption of long fiber roughage is important to both milk production and herd heath. A long fiber roughage is one that is...
10 days
Longer than 1.5 inches
40/60
30 hours

15. Which one of the following is the largest dairy milk marketing cooperative in the U.S.?
Dairy Farmers of America (DFA)
60 days
Drug residue
Total Digestible Nutrients

16. When a small metal object punctures the stomach wall and causes an infection - the resulting disease is called____________________.
The initiation of milk secretion
Non-forage Carbohydrates
Hardware disease
Nitrogen

17. GnRH
Gonadotropin Releasing Hormone
Low blood levvels of ionized calcium
Omasum
Abortion

18. What is a TMR to a dairy person?
Total Mixed Ration
Beta-carotene
Follicular and luteal
Registered Holstein Ancestry

19. The most costly form of mastitis is?
Percentage of Difficult Births in Heifers
Cryoscope
Subclinical
3 years

20. Which of the following is the most popular type of cheese in the United States?
Cation-Anion Difference
Pink eye
Cheddar
20000000

21. The medical name tarsal hygroma - a commonaliment of dairy cows is commonly called...
20
Fats
Swollen hock
Guernsey

22. Lactation is unique to _________.
15 months
Mammals
The bacteria Escherichia Coli
Post-synch

23. FARAD
Claw
During the first pregnancy
Food Animal Residue Avoidance Databank
Abomasum

24. The top most part of a cow's head is called the...
Poll
12-14 weeks
Composting
Citrate

25. NSC
Guernsey and Jersey
Lignin
Manure handling procedures
Nonstructural Carbohydrates

26. The topline of a cow is made up of the...
Mule-foot
Sickle hocked
Loin and chine
Magnesium

27. What acid is formed when nonstructural carbohydrates are digested in the rumen?
Propionic acid
Decreases - increases
Income over feed costs
Mycobacterium bovis

28. The Global Dairy Agenda for Action is a pledge to reduce _______ emissions in an attempt to address global warming?
Parturtion
Four or more times
PGF
Carbon

29. If a dairy bull has been genetically tested to determine his genomic make-up - this will be indicated on his pedigree by what letters?
GTPI
Vitamin A
To give birth
Cheddar cheese

30. How frequently should an average freshen?
To add a concentrated form of energy
Relative Forage Value
Once every 12 months
Registered Holstein Ancestry

31. The breed of dairy cattle that can be roan - all red - all white - or even spotted red and white is...
A B-Vitamin
Side by side (head out)
Milking Shorthorn
Brown Swiss

32. High potassium intake will decrease a cows ability to mobilize what?
Bone calcium
Stainless steel
After each use
70% moisture

33. What is subcutaneous injection?
100%
Niacin
Administered under the skin
Abomasum

34. What state agency regulates waste management?
Two times
Small Intestine
Total Mixed Ration
Texas Commission on Environmental Quality

35. What is a nonfunctional mammary gland called?
Blind quarter
40 gallons
Stainless steel
It has a lower vacuum requirement

36. On the PDCA Unified Dairy Score Card - the category 'feet and legs' accounts for how many points?
75-79.9
Composting
Transponders
20

37. 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
18
North American Free Trade Agreement
Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation
Total Production Index

38. Foot Rot is scientifically known as what?
When it is proven that she will breed
Recessive
Guernsey and Jersey
Interdigital phlegmon

39. Abortion in the last trimester of pregnancy is often caused by_______________.
10%
Udder
Brucellosis
Water

40. When evaluating a dairy ration - what do the letters TDN stand for?
Water
Oxytocin
Increase - 5
Total Digestible Nutrients

41. 'Thurl position' is a trait evaluated in the ________ category on the PDCA Unified Scorecard?
Brown Swiss
3.0
NAtional Research Council
Rear feet and legs

42. What mineral is necessary for hemoglobin formation?
Farm Service Agency
Rear feet and legs
Copper
Propionic acid

43. Brucellosis is also know as...
Bangs
Follicular and luteal
Side by side (head out)
Mycobacterium bovis

44. When referring to milk test used at the processing plant - What is a DMC?
75-79.9
Direct Microscopic Counts
Cows Milk production this month divided by production last month X 100
Hormones

45. If the heat detection rate is 30% and the conception rate is 30% - What is the pregnancy rate?
Ringworm
9%
Four or more times
Mammals

46. When reffering to vaccinations - what do the letters MLV stand for?
Magnesium
Modified Live Virus
1
NAtional Research Council

47. NFDM
Front feet toward rear of the cow with head - nose first - between them
Vitamin A
Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
Nonfat Dry Milk

48. GATT
3 years
Basic Formula Price
Parturtion
General Agreement on Tariff and Trade

49. 98% of somatic cells are...
Pulsator
Rear feet and legs
Leukocytes
Texas Commission on Environmental Quality

50. How many grams of lactose are in an 8 oz. glass of milk?
10
Stainless steel
GTPI
Copper sulfate