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Dairy Cattle Basics
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. When a cow comes into heat every few days - she is referred to as?
Vitamin A
Cellulose - hemicellulose - and lignin
9 weeks
Cystic
2. A perfect score for a cow according to the Dairy Cow Unified Score Card is...
Calcium
100
Subclinical
Dairy Farmers of America (DFA)
3. NFDM
Sterile heifer born twin to a bull
Nonfat Dry Milk
Pink eye
Collecting the methane gas being produced and using it as an energy source on the dairy
4. Cow comfort has been linked to milk production in numerous research studies. Not an example of a way to improve cow comfort used by dairymen?
Integrated pest management
Allowing them access to their new born calf for the 1st 30 days
Enteritis
Flank
5. Milking time is best reduced by...
Negative net energy balance
45-55
Preparing cows properly
Vitamin A
6. Which reproductive condition results when the fetal membranes remain within the uterus for an extended period following parturition?
Retained placenta
Feed
Bangs
Feed
7. What percent of dry matter in plants is made of carbohydrates?
15 months
75%
A B-Vitamin
Beta-carotene
8. Milk traits - i.e. fat - protein - SNF and etc. - tend to have a heritability of about...
75-79.9
30 hours
20-30%
24
9. For best results calves should be fed colostrum within ____ hours of calving...
Total Mixed Ration
Potassium
50-80%
6 hours
10. What is another term for the lowest lateral regions of the abdomen - near the groin?
National Farmers Organization
Inguinal
Blind quarter
Nitrogen
11. CCC
Sodium Bicarbonate
Laminitis
Large Plastic Bags
Commodity Credit Corporation
12. A dairy cow that has her feet too far forward (under her belly) is said to be...
Dairy Comp 305
Sickle hocked
5
Cheddar cheese
13. Name the three common places Coliforms are found.
Milk on Demand
Mud - water - and manure
10 days
70% moisture
14. Foot Rot is scientifically known as what?
Lactation records have been adjusted to the same milk fat percentage
Interdigital phlegmon
3.0
Sickle hocked
15. What should the pH of a 'close up' Holstein's urine be?
Enteritis
Between 6.0 and 6.5
Back flushing
Digestive
16. When does the greatest mammary tissue growth occur during a cow's life?
During the first pregnancy
75-79.9
Two
Feed low potassium hay - silage - and anionic salts to dry cows
17. Dairy heifers need to bred at ________ of age assuming they are at least 65% of their adult weight at that time.
15 months
Parturient paresis
The weaving gait of affected cattle
The tendency for a group of animals to do the same thing at the same time
18. Fresh milk - at a dairy - is required to be cooled to a minimum of 50 degrees F within 4 hours time after milking. However many larger dairies are using a _______________ to accomplish this within minutes.
Water
Plate chiller
101.5 degrees F
Parallels out performed herringbones by nearly 8%
19. Legally you cannot make cottage cheese from raw milk - but you can make _________ from raw milk.
Cheddar cheese
Interdigital phlegmon
25-30
Fat
20. What is the scientific term for birth?
Follicular and luteal
Rolling Herd Average
Total Digestible Nutrients
Parturtion
21. What is a TMR to a dairy person?
General Agreement on Tariff and Trade
85
Citrate
Total Mixed Ration
22. FSA
Rumen and reticulum
Farm Service Agency
Dished
Between 6.0 and 6.5
23. Which purebred dairy breed association introduced a 'dairy price stabilization' program in 2009?
Rolling Herd Average
Holstein
Commodity Credit Corporation
Solids removal
24. FAS
Laminitis
Clipping and singeing
Foreign Agricultural Service
Small intestine
25. This bacteria causes 'Circling Disease' in cattle...
Symbiotic
Listeria
Mastitis
9%
26. Dairy rations - especially those for high producing cows - may be buffered to maintain a desirable rumen pH. The most common buffering agent for this is...
MyDairy
Fat
Sodium Bicarbonate
Direct Microscopic Counts
27. A very popular dairy management software in Texas is...
Once every 12 months
Dairy Comp 305
Jersey
Poll
28. Which of the following is the most popular type of cheese in the United States?
Cheddar
Lactation records have been adjusted to the same milk fat percentage
Small intestine
Methane
29. 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
Sterile heifer born twin to a bull
Carbon
The bacteria Escherichia Coli
Total Production Index
30. In which breed of cow is the incidence of milk fever most common?
Brown Swiss
Jersey
Nitrogen excretion
Chine
31. Regarding feed formulation - What does CAD stand for?
10%
Bangs
Energy
Cation-Anion Difference
32. The number one reason for culling in U.S. dairy herds is...
Administered via blood vessels
Holstein
Reproductive failure
The cows leave the milkers via an alley wide enough to allow 2 or more cows side by side
33. Normal presentation of a calf for parturition will have...
Good plus
Follicular and luteal
Front feet toward rear of the cow with head - nose first - between them
Lignin
34. What percent of crude protein should a calf starter be?
Milking Shorthorn
30
Restraint and control of the animal
16-18
35. The most common pathogen found in raw milk is...
A positively charged ion
Mule-foot
Escherichia coli
Digital Dermatitis
36. The _____________is the device responsible for regulating both the vacuum level and the proportion of the vacuum for the front and rear quarters
Prussic acid poisoning
Oxytocin
5
Pulsator
37. The first feeding of colostrum should equal about ___ percent of the calf's body weight?
Intravenous injection of calcium gluconate
5
After 55 days
Poll
38. Adequate consumption of long fiber roughage is important to both milk production and herd heath. A long fiber roughage is one that is...
Total Digestible Nutrients
90-100
Longer than 1.5 inches
United States Dairy Export Council
39. A ____________ is usually necessary when feeding Dairy Cows TMR rations.
6 hours
3.5-4.0
2000's
Mixer box on a truck or trailer
40. The rear quarters produce __________% of the daily milk yield.
Registered Holstein Ancestry
Food Animal Residue Avoidance Databank
Dairy Farmers of America (DFA)
60
41. What is intravenous injection?
Feed low potassium hay - silage - and anionic salts to dry cows
Lignin
Administered via blood vessels
60 days
42. What kinds of relationship do cattle and the microorganisms in their rumen share?
Stainless steel
Symbiotic
Milk fever
Small Intestine
43. When does the greatest mammary tissue growth occur during a cow's life?
Milking Shorthorn
Transponders
Oxytocin
During the first pregnancy
44. One ejaculation from a bull typically contains _________________ sperm
Guernsey
Manure handling procedures
Body weight
5000000
45. Research has shown that by formulating lactating cow rations with proper amounts of certain amino acids - we can decrease the crude protein content of the ration and reduce _______________________?
Udder
Basic Formula Price
When it is proven that she will breed
Nitrogen excretion
46. Parallel milk barns typically have several cows on each side. The cows are arranged in a ____________ fashion in this barn.
Farm Service Agency
Magnesium
Side by side (head out)
Plate chiller
47. A switch on a cow is...
Neutral Detergent Fiber
Two
The bottom most part of the tail
High % of water
48. It is widely acknowledged that a calcium/phosphorus ration of about ______________ is best for a dairy ration since this mirrors that of the cows' body.
Attract the opposite sex
Preparing cows properly
Administered in the muscle
2:1
49. Brucellosis is also know as...
62 to 65% moisture
Mycobacterium Paratuberculosis
Bangs
Roughage
50. What are structural carbohydrates made of?
Cellulose - hemicellulose - and lignin
5
Side by side (head out)
24