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Dairy Cattle Basics
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The portion of the ruminant digestive system which is known as and functions as the 'true' stomach is the...
Feed
Abomasum
Displaced abomasum
5
2. NAFTA
Large Plastic Bags
Administered in the muscle
Foreign Agricultural Service
North American Free Trade Agreement
3. If you add sugar to a milk product - you must ______ the minimum pasteurization temperature by _____ degrees F.
Cryoscope
60
Increase - 5
Jersey
4. Most dairies in Texas are considered to be CAFO's. A CAFO is...
Bovine Somatotropin
Non-forage Carbohydrates
24
Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation
5. Which dairy breed's milk is golden-yellow in color?
Bovine Viral Diarrhea
Guernsey
Low blood levvels of ionized calcium
Twelve
6. Pest Predators will travel up to ____ yards to find their food source (fly pupae).
The abomasums of a milk fed calf
80
The abomasums of a milk fed calf
Lignin
7. What percent of dry matter in plants is made of carbohydrates?
Loin and chine
Arteries
75%
XY
8. For best results calves should be fed colostrum within ____ hours of calving...
Copper sulfate
6 hours
Mixer box on a truck or trailer
Pastuerized Milk Ordinance
9. Limber leg is found most often in the ____________ dairy breed?
Jersey
Loin and chine
Foreign Agricultural Service
Modified Live Virus
10. Name the three common places Coliforms are found.
Allowing them access to their new born calf for the 1st 30 days
Good plus
Mud - water - and manure
Rear feet and legs
11. In the standard protocol for cleaning milking equipment - which of the following is not one of the four phases of cleaning?
Calcium
Digital Dermatitis
Feeding the cow
Back flushing
12. A condition of low blood calcium - which results in partial paralysis of the cow is known as __________________.
Preparing cows properly
Mycobacterium bovis
Milk fever
Intravenous injection of calcium gluconate
13. What describes the fraction of the ration proteins - which is broken down by digestive enzymes and utilized by rumen bacteria?
Farm Service Agency
Digestive
Pink eye
% Degradable proteins
14. When examining feed rations - what do the letters NDF stand for?
Rear feet and legs
Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation
Carbon Dioxide Gas
Neutral Detergent Fiber
15. Heritability for milk production in dairy cattle is...
30%
Oxytocin
Administered via blood vessels
50 percent
16. Abortion in the last trimester of pregnancy is often caused by_______________.
Brucellosis
Dairy Comp 305
300 + degree
Rear feet and legs
17. Adequate consumption of long fiber roughage is important to both milk production and herd heath. A long fiber roughage is one that is...
Abomasum
Carbon
750000
Longer than 1.5 inches
18. The _____________is the device responsible for regulating both the vacuum level and the proportion of the vacuum for the front and rear quarters
Body weight
After 55 days
A minimum of every 6 months
Pulsator
19. Which one of the following is NOT classified as a water soluble-vitamin?
They may be bothersome to livestock and other animals
90-100
Vitamin A
Nitrogen excretion
20. What is a nonfunctional mammary gland called?
MyDairy
62 to 65% moisture
Blind quarter
Modified Live Virus
21. When a cow comes into heat every few days - she is referred to as?
Cystic
Water
Copper
Milk on Demand
22. 98% of somatic cells are...
Between 14 and 35 days
Reticulum
Leukocytes
Potassium
23. Colostrum given to a baby calf more than ____________hours old is NOT absorbed and thus does little good.
Udder - feet and legs - body form - & dairy character
24
3-6 minutes
Manure handling procedures
24. Ways to avoid milk fever in cows
Pasteurizing system
Collecting the methane gas being produced and using it as an energy source on the dairy
The initiation of milk secretion
Feed low potassium hay - silage - and anionic salts to dry cows
25. Milking time is best reduced by...
Preparing cows properly
Two weeks prior to calving
25-30
Farm Service Agency
26. The first feeding of colostrum should equal about ___ percent of the calf's body weight?
5
Potassium
Energy
3-6 minutes
27. Producers using BST must give their cows an injection of it every...
To add a concentrated form of energy
14 days
Vitamin A
Percentage of Difficult Births in Heifers
28. NFDM
Cystic
Food safety and Inspection Service
Nonfat Dry Milk
The weaving gait of affected cattle
29. 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?
Once every 12 months
Allowing them access to their new born calf for the 1st 30 days
Stainless steel
Loin and chine
30. For best results calves should be fed colostrum within ____ hours of calving...
6 hours
Plant starch - pectin - and sugar
5000000
Reproductive failure
31. Normal body temperature for a dairy cow is _____________.
62 to 65% moisture
101.5 degrees F
Dairy character
Brown Swiss
32. What do nonstructural carbohydrates consist of?
Holstein
Plant starch - pectin - and sugar
Between 6.0 and 6.5
Small intestine
33. What type of mastitis is the easiest to cure?
Streptococus agalactae
Feed
Carbon Dioxide Gas
After each use
34. 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?
Sodium Bicarbonate
Swollen hock
Jersey
Duodenum
35. If there are large numbers of flies around the dairy barn - what should be the first thing to be examined in an attempt to solve the fly problem?
Manure handling procedures
Farm Service Agency
Poll
Parallels out performed herringbones by nearly 8%
36. How much water can a lactating cow consume in one day?
In the cell wall
25 gallons
40 degrees F
60 days
37. Fermented forage plants relates to...
Silage
Negative net energy balance
10 days
Fat residue
38. A perfect score for a cow according to the Dairy Cow Unified Score Card is...
Plant starch - pectin - and sugar
Heifer
100
Pastuerized Milk Ordinance
39. What is lactogenesis?
MyDairy
Mammals
The initiation of milk secretion
Black leg
40. 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__________.
Extremely fat
Lignin
40/60
Milk on Demand
41. 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).
282 days
European Union
5
Vitamin B
42. Normal presentation of a calf for parturition will have...
25-30
Extremely fat
6 hours
Front feet toward rear of the cow with head - nose first - between them
43. What are the two types of ovarian cysts?
4 years
Follicular and luteal
Abortion
A negatively charged ion
44. Dairy heifers need to bred at ________ of age assuming they are at least 65% of their adult weight at that time.
15 months
80
Reduce the incidence of mastitis
400 pounds
45. Feeding bulky feeds during the dry period and gradually bringing fresh cows back on grain are ways to prevent...
Poll
XY
Displaced abomasum
Hardware disease
46. The hormone BST is given to dairy cows...
After 200 days of lactation
70% moisture
16-18
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.
47. When evaluating a dairy ration - what do the letters TDN stand for?
Retained placenta
European Union
40 gallons
Total Digestible Nutrients
48. What is the accepted standard length for a lactation record in dairy cattle?
International Dairy Foods Associactions
15 months
305 days
40/60
49. USAHA
You S Animal Health Association
Jersey
Omasum
101.5 degrees F
50. Milk with over_____________ somatic cell count cannot legally be shipped in the United States?
Vitamin A
Enteritis
750000
35 to 40%