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Dairy Cattle Basics
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1. Fear can disrupt milk letdown in a cow. The hormone released that causes this disruption is...
Epinephrine
Methane
Mastitis
Cheddar
2. What is the classification for a Holstein cow given the numerical value of less than 70?
Poor
The abomasums of a milk fed calf
16-18
The weaving gait of affected cattle
3. 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__________.
A B-Vitamin
Lignin
Predicted Transmitting Ability-Type
50-80%
4. Dairy cows need roughage to concentrate ratio of approximately ______________ to maintain the desired fat content in the milk.
40/60
Non-forage Carbohydrates
Mycobacterium Paratuberculosis
To give birth
5. Brucellosis is also know as...
40 gallons
Corpus Luteum
Esophageal groove
Bangs
6. What manure waste management puts solids in a bin and lets it degrade?
3.5-4.0
50-70
5
Composting
7. When looking at DHI records - what do the letters RHA stand for?
Brown Swiss
3 years
80
Rolling Herd Average
8. Name the three common places Coliforms are found.
Flank
Zinc
To add a concentrated form of energy
Mud - water - and manure
9. Which part of an animal touches the ground if he/she is walking on a correct set of feet and legs?
Sole
NAtional Research Council
Administered under the skin
Calcium
10. What pathway in youg calves direct milk into the abomasum - bypassing the rumen - reticulum - and omasum?
15 months
Parturtion
Esophageal groove
Two weeks prior to calving
11. Proponents of global warming having accused cows of being a major factor. This is due to their release of...
Lactose intolerance
9 weeks
Carbon Dioxide Gas
The initiation of milk secretion
12. Which of the following diseases is not caused by a virus?
Laminitis
Disbudding
Abomasum
A B-Vitamin
13. Which one of the following is the largest dairy milk marketing cooperative in the U.S.?
Cheese
Dairy Farmers of America (DFA)
Rumen and reticulum
Cation-Anion Difference
14. Which one of the following is the name of the part of the cow's back that lies between the withers and the loin?
Fats
Chine
Reticulum
25
15. Fear can disrupt milk letdown in a cow. The hormone released that causes this disruption is...
Nitrogen excretion
Collecting the methane gas being produced and using it as an energy source on the dairy
Epinephrine
The weaving gait of affected cattle
16. Lactation is unique to _________.
Water
Sodium Bicarbonate
Mammals
Nitrogen excretion
17. Pest Predators will travel up to ____ yards to find their food source (fly pupae).
10
Administered in the muscle
Leukocytes
80
18. What does the term freshen mean in relation the dairy production?
Large intestines
To give birth
10 days
Administered under the skin
19. What numerical value does a Holstein cow get when given the classification good?
75-79.9
30%
Udder - feet and legs - body form - & dairy character
International Dairy Foods Associactions
20. What is the sex chromosome configuration of a male calf?
20-30%
XY
Abortion
Rolling Herd Average
21. In what year did the Holstein Association start its program of recording carriers of Undesirable Recessive Traits?
Displaced abomasum
Omasum
A B-Vitamin
1957
22. Allelomimetic behavior is defined as...
Leukocytes
Holstein
The tendency for a group of animals to do the same thing at the same time
18
23. When discussing nutrition - What does NPN stand for?
Abomasum
Nonprotein nitrogen
Milking Shorthorn
Vibriosis
24. 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?
Sterile heifer born twin to a bull
Net Energy
Manure handling procedures
Abomasum
25. Ways to avoid milk fever in cows
Longer than 1.5 inches
Lactose intolerance
Feed low potassium hay - silage - and anionic salts to dry cows
When it is proven that she will breed
26. Ways to avoid milk fever in cows
Feed low potassium hay - silage - and anionic salts to dry cows
Copper
50 percent
Side by side (head out)
27. NSC
Nonstructural Carbohydrates
Progesterone
After 200 days of lactation
Mastitis
28. A mutation where a calf is born with a single toe on one or more feet is called...
Carbon
Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
Copper
Mule-foot
29. Where are degradable proteins broken down?
Vitamin A
Flank
Administered under the skin
Rumen
30. Neospora caninum is a major cause of what in pregnant cows?
Rump
Hormones
Abortion
Oxytocin
31. Which one of the following is the name of the part of the cow's back that lies between the withers and the loin?
Allowing them access to their new born calf for the 1st 30 days
Feed
Pink eye
Chine
32. Fats are broken down by a dairy cow In what part of her body?
Non-forage Carbohydrates
Udder
Rear feet and legs
Small intestine
33. At how many days can pregnancy be detected by palpation?
Brucellosis
Between 14 and 35 days
Sterile heifer born twin to a bull
National Farmers Organization
34. Which of the following is a compartment of the dairy cow's stomach?
Limber leg
The tendency for a group of animals to do the same thing at the same time
Dairy character
Abomasum
35. What are structural carbohydrates made of?
Cellulose - hemicellulose - and lignin
Hardware disease
MyDairy
50-80%
36. On average - how many weekd after freshening does a cow's dry matter intake peak?
12-14 weeks
Clipping and singeing
Water
Percentage of Difficult Births in Heifers
37. After a bulk tank is washed and rinsed - beading of water droplets is a sign of _____.
Lactose intolerance
Twelve
Fat residue
Silage
38. One ejaculation from a bull typically contains _________________ sperm
Bone calcium
5000000
After 55 days
PGF
39. When a cow comes into heat every few days - she is referred to as?
PGF
Feed
Cystic
Carbon Dioxide Gas
40. Dairy cattle where first successfully cloned in the_______________.
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41. A cow with high lactation persistence is important for a dairy's economic success. Lactation persistency is...
Silage
Loin and chine
Brown Swiss
Cows Milk production this month divided by production last month X 100
42. When doing classification scoring - a cow given the numerical value of 85-89.9 is classified as...
Silage
Brucellosis
Very good
2.25
43. How did parallels perform when compared to herringbones?
Manure handling procedures
Esophageal groove
Feed
Parallels out performed herringbones by nearly 8%
44. The rear quarters produce __________% of the daily milk yield.
The weaving gait of affected cattle
60
Guernsey and Jersey
14 days
45. If a dairy bull has been genetically tested to determine his genomic make-up - this will be indicated on his pedigree by what letters?
3.5-4.0
Parathyroid gland
16-18
GTPI
46. The condition in which the cow is giving more milk than nutrients that she is consuming in feed is called...
Heat detection and conception rates
Body weight
Bangs
Negative net energy balance
47. Which hormone produced by the uterus causes regression of the corpus luteum?
Calcium
35 to 40%
Foreign Agricultural Service
PGF
48. The most costly form of mastitis is?
Brown Swiss
Negative net energy balance
Subclinical
Guernsey and Jersey
49. Which dairy breed originated in the central part of the European continent?
Brown Swiss
300 + degree
Fat residue
75%
50. The two U.S. dairy breeds that originated in the Channel Islands off the coast of France are...
80
After 55 days
Parathyroid gland
Guernsey and Jersey