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Dairy Cattle Basics

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1. What describes the fraction of the ration proteins - which is broken down by digestive enzymes and utilized by rumen bacteria?
Progesterone
Magnesium
% Degradable proteins
The tendency for a group of animals to do the same thing at the same time

2. The top most part of a cow's head is called the...
Abortion
10%
Poll
10 days

3. Milk should be below what temperature before it is transferred to a milk truck?
2000's
Rumen
40 degrees F
The cows leave the milkers via an alley wide enough to allow 2 or more cows side by side

4. Many dairies place bands on their cows necks or feet - with black boxes containing electronic I.D. - production - management information. These units are called...
9 weeks
A B-Vitamin
Nonprotein nitrogen
Transponders

5. NMPF
Guernsey and Jersey
4 years
Food Animal Residue Avoidance Databank
National Milk Producers Federation

6. About 90% of U.S. dairies use a __________ milking schedule.
70%
Pink eye
Twice/day
Preparing cows properly

7. EU
Prussic acid poisoning
European Union
Carbon
Abomasum

8. Dairy herds have historically used artificial insemination. Currently approximately ____________% of all dairy pregnancies results from A.I.
Abomasum
% Degradable proteins
Commodity Credit Corporation
85

9. What breed is known to produce milk over a greater number of years than all other breeds?
20 to 24
XY
Predicted Transmitting Ability-Type
Brown Swiss

10. A bovine female which has not had a calf is a...
Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
Heifer
European Union
Food safety and Inspection Service

11. What is the scientific term for birth?
During the first pregnancy
Parturtion
Interdigital phlegmon
Abomasum

12. 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?
Farm Service Agency
Duodenum
Leukocytes
Rolling Herd Average

13. Where are non-degradable proteins absorbed?
Rolling Herd Average
101.5 degrees F
Parathyroid gland
Small Intestine

14. What manure waste management method runs manure across a press and squeezes the water out?
Neutral Detergent Fiber
Solids removal
Abomasum
282 days

15. The source of rennet (a substance used in cheese making) is...
Total Mixed Ration
8.62 pounds
A national dairy farmer-funded program that is used to help stabilize milk prices
The abomasums of a milk fed calf

16. In what year did the Holstein Association start its program of recording carriers of Undesirable Recessive Traits?
During the first pregnancy
No less than 60% moisture
Retained placenta
1957

17. Ways to avoid milk fever in cows
400 pounds
Prevent ingested metal objects from interfering with the digestive tract or the respiratory system
20 to 24
Feed low potassium hay - silage - and anionic salts to dry cows

18. The portion of the ruminant digestive system which consists of many folds of tissue is the...
Parathyroid gland
Omasum
A positively charged ion
Neutral Detergent Fiber

19. Fumonsin and zearalenone are examples of...
Very good
Mycotoxins
Calories
Udder - feet and legs - body form - & dairy character

20. BVD
60
Bovine Viral Diarrhea
Recessive
Prevent ingested metal objects from interfering with the digestive tract or the respiratory system

21. GnRH
Bangs
Gonadotropin Releasing Hormone
50-70
Retained placenta

22. Coccidia infection can occur when calves are 4 to 8 weeks old. Coccidia causes...
Commodity Credit Corporation
Between 14 and 35 days
80
Enteritis

23. PTAT
Neutral Detergent Fiber
Water
NAtional Research Council
Predicted Transmitting Ability-Type

24. What is the USDA's AIPL?
Abortion
Animal Improvement Program Lab
Feed
Propionic acid

25. A calf's birth weight is approximately ________% of its' mature weight.
Calcium
Dairy Farmers of America (DFA)
400 pounds
5

26. The medical name tarsal hygroma - a commonaliment of dairy cows is commonly called...
Farm Service Agency
Limber leg
Flank
Swollen hock

27. Allelomimetic behavior is defined as...
Nitrogen
100%
Abomasum
The tendency for a group of animals to do the same thing at the same time

28. Which one of the following is not classified as a fat‐soluble vitamin?
18
Vitamin B
Feed
Brucellosis

29. When discussing nutrition - What does NPN stand for?
Sole
Nonprotein nitrogen
Nonfat Dry Milk
Digestive

30. Name the three common places Coliforms are found.
Restraint and control of the animal
Rump
300 + degree
Mud - water - and manure

31. Jersey cattle are characterized by having a ______________ face...
305 days
85
Mule-foot
Dished

32. When examining feed rations - what do the letters NDF stand for?
NAtional Research Council
25%
Mastitis
Neutral Detergent Fiber

33. Adequate consumption of long fiber roughage is important to both milk production and herd heath. A long fiber roughage is one that is...
Omasum
Oxytocin
Preparing cows properly
Longer than 1.5 inches

34. Rotary Parlors or Carousel milk barns have the advantage of being ________________ when compared to other type barns.
Solids removal
NAtional Research Council
Faster
Parturtion

35. What is the most abundant mineral in the body?
Calcium
24
Mixer box on a truck or trailer
10

36. When evaluating dairy rations what do the letters NE stand for?
Net Energy
Poor
Milk fever
Pulsator

37. What is the sex chromosome configuration of a male calf?
Rump
40 degrees F
No less than 60% moisture
XY

38. Heart girth measurements of cows may be used to estimate...
Manure handling procedures
Solids removal
Vitamin A
Body weight

39. Which one of the following describes biotin?
Preparing cows properly
Integrated pest management
A B-Vitamin
Loin and chine

40. The rear quarters produce __________% of the daily milk yield.
Total Mixed Ration
Premis ID
Negative net energy balance
60

41. To dairymen - the most harmful disease impacting milk production and their economic bottom line is...
Mastitis
4 years
A minimum of every 6 months
Collecting the methane gas being produced and using it as an energy source on the dairy

42. Many dairymen 'dock' the tail on their cows much to the chagrin of Animals Rights groups. They believe This is necessary to...
Farm Service Agency
Reduce the incidence of mastitis
General Agreement on Tariff and Trade
Udder

43. The breed of dairy cattle that can be roan - all red - all white - or even spotted red and white is...
Rolling Herd Average
Small intestine
Milking Shorthorn
Heat detection and conception rates

44. Name the three common places Coliforms are found.
A positively charged ion
Food Animal Residue Avoidance Databank
Mud - water - and manure
Follicular and luteal

45. What is the classification for a Holstein cow given the numerical value 80-84.9?
Lactation records have been adjusted to the same milk fat percentage
Good plus
Citrate
Progesterone

46. The condition in which the cow is giving more milk than nutrients that she is consuming in feed is called...
After 55 days
Mycotoxins
Bone calcium
Negative net energy balance

47. What are two methods for shortening udder hair?
Clipping and singeing
8.62 pounds
Total Mixed Ration
The weaving gait of affected cattle

48. What is the classification for a Holstein cow given the numerical value of less than 70?
Poor
Prevent ingested metal objects from interfering with the digestive tract or the respiratory system
Loin and chine
75-79.9

49. CCC
Esophageal groove
Commodity Credit Corporation
Rumen
Brown Swiss

50. One of the highest heritability traits for milk is...
Rump
No less than 60% moisture
Propionic acid
% Protein