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Dairy Cattle Basics
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Neospora caninum is a major cause of what in pregnant cows?
Net Energy
Abortion
5-9 years old
Solids removal
2. To maintain margins - you should be monitoring and making decisions based on your herd's IOFC. What do the initials IOFC stand for?
Poll
Parturtion
Jersey
Income over feed costs
3. The hormone ______________ stimulates milk let down and may be administered via injection - when necessary after parturition.
High % of water
Oxytocin
Mycobacterium bovis
Composting
4. NFO
Transponders
National Farmers Organization
3.5-4.0
Small intestine
5. Milking time is best reduced by...
Mastitis
Preparing cows properly
Sodium
5
6. What units are used to measure energy?
Calories
Foreign Agricultural Service
3 years
Total Mixed Ration
7. Dairy cattle where first successfully cloned in the_______________.
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8. Which purebred dairy breed association introduced a 'dairy price stabilization' program in 2009?
Fats
Holstein
Abomasum
Silage
9. 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.
Negative net energy balance
Manure handling procedures
Lignin
Plate chiller
10. 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...
Abomasum
Sodium Bicarbonate
Brucellosis
Sole
11. Dairy cattle have a ________ field of vision to their front
Registered Holstein Ancestry
300 + degree
Brown Swiss
Duodenum
12. FARAD
Intravenous injection of calcium gluconate
300 + degree
Food Animal Residue Avoidance Databank
Parallels out performed herringbones by nearly 8%
13. What state agency regulates waste management?
30
Poll
Stainless steel
Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
14. Which cows have higher protein requirements?
9%
High-producing pregnant cows
Cheddar
Interdigital phlegmon
15. What is a nonfunctional mammary gland called?
Lignin
Income over feed costs
Retained placenta
Blind quarter
16. Cheddar cheese accounts for ____ % of American type cheeses made in the U.S.
30%
Lactose intolerance
A B-Vitamin
80
17. ___________ represents the largest daily input cost in producing milk.
The bacteria Escherichia Coli
Disbudding
The tendency for a group of animals to do the same thing at the same time
Feed
18. When examining feed rations - what do the letters NDF stand for?
Neutral Detergent Fiber
Cation-Anion Difference
35 to 40%
Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
19. Cows that are at risk of developing ketosis can be fed what vitamin to help prevent ketosis?
Milking Shorthorn
Rolling Herd Average
Niacin
24 hours
20. 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.
No less than 60% moisture
Milking Shorthorn
High-producing pregnant cows
2:1
21. USAHA
You S Animal Health Association
Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
Rumen and reticulum
10 days
22. A switch on a cow is...
Allowing them access to their new born calf for the 1st 30 days
Solids removal
The bottom most part of the tail
2.25
23. Legally you cannot make cottage cheese from raw milk - but you can make _________ from raw milk.
Calories
Cheddar cheese
Methane
Pass from animals to humans and vice versa
24. PTAT
Predicted Transmitting Ability-Type
Guernsey and Jersey
Blind quarter
50
25. What hormone is responsible for maintaining pregnancy?
Progesterone
Carbon Dioxide Gas
60 days
Mixer box on a truck or trailer
26. Body condition scores form 1 to 5 are used to track herd health and nutrition. Dry cows should have a body score from...
Restraint and control of the animal
National Milk Producers Federation
3.5-4.0
Commodity Credit Corporation
27. Colostrum given to a baby calf more than ____________hours old is NOT absorbed and thus does little good.
After each use
Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation
Omasum
24
28. Bovine Progressive Degenerative Myeloencephalopathy (BPDME) is better known as Weaver Syndrome because of...
The abomasums of a milk fed calf
Duodenum
The weaving gait of affected cattle
10%
29. Hairy Heel Wart is scientifically known as what?
Propionic acid
Good plus
Digital Dermatitis
25%
30. What is a nonfunctional mammary gland called?
Two times
Pastuerized Milk Ordinance
Blind quarter
24 hours
31. What is the classification for a Holstein cow given the numerical value 80-84.9?
Rumen and reticulum
Non-forage Carbohydrates
5
Good plus
32. At what isoelectric point (point at which proteins have net zero charge) do caseins precipitate?
Zinc
Oxytocin
62 to 65% moisture
PH 4.6
33. What is a TMR to a dairy person?
Total Mixed Ration
% Protein
Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
Cystic
34. How often will HACCP inspect each Dairy Farm?
A minimum of every 6 months
50-80%
Abomasum
Sire conception rate
35. If the heat detection rate is 30% and the conception rate is 30% - What is the pregnancy rate?
Lignin
Faster
9%
A negatively charged ion
36. Recent research traits have shown that dairy cows prefer to be milked __________ times/day if they are able to choose.
Low blood levvels of ionized calcium
Food Animal Residue Avoidance Databank
Pulsator
Four or more times
37. Dairy producers are particularly watchful for zoonotic diseases in their herd. Zoonotic diseases are defined as those that...
Methane
NAtional Research Council
Pass from animals to humans and vice versa
Drug residue
38. What mineral is necessary for hemoglobin formation?
Copper
It is not necessary to supplement the intake of Vitamin B complex
Bovine Somatotropin
The influence of the sire of the cow on calving ease
39. Dairy cows produce milk that is relatively high in B complex vitamins. Because they are ruminants...
9%
Guernsey and Jersey
It is not necessary to supplement the intake of Vitamin B complex
Fats
40. What is a cation?
A positively charged ion
Water
12-14 weeks
Transponders
41. The annual sale of dairy semen exceeds __________ straws.
Leukocytes
20000000
To add a concentrated form of energy
10%
42. At how many days can pregnancy be detected by palpation?
Zinc
Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation
40 gallons
Between 14 and 35 days
43. What is the name of the term for a farm's unique identification number that is part of the National Animal Identification System?
GTPI
Lignin
Premis ID
Drug residue
44. The hormone BST is given to dairy cows...
Inguinal
Brown Swiss
After 200 days of lactation
A national dairy farmer-funded program that is used to help stabilize milk prices
45. Many dairymen 'dock' the tail on their cows much to the chagrin of Animals Rights groups. They believe This is necessary to...
40 gallons
Body weight
Reduce the incidence of mastitis
Bovine Viral Diarrhea
46. Parallel milk barns typically have several cows on each side. The cows are arranged in a ____________ fashion in this barn.
Side by side (head out)
Prussic acid poisoning
Ringworm
Mud - water - and manure
47. Which of the following is a compartment of the dairy cow's stomach?
5-9 years old
Abomasum
Dairy Comp 305
Copper
48. When referring to milk test used at the processing plant - What is a DMC?
Direct Microscopic Counts
10
The abomasums of a milk fed calf
100
49. A mutation where a calf is born with a single toe on one or more feet is called...
2:1
Nonstructural Carbohydrates
Mule-foot
Longer than 1.5 inches
50. What is subcutaneous injection?
Relative Forage Value
Administered under the skin
Feed low potassium hay - silage - and anionic salts to dry cows
Swollen hock