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Dairy Cattle Basics

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1. 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.
Plate chiller
101.5 degrees F
Between 14 and 35 days
9%

2. Which of the compartments of a cow's four-compartment stomach acts as the true stomach?
Preparing cows properly
Abomasum
Vitamin A
A national dairy farmer-funded program that is used to help stabilize milk prices

3. 'Weaver Syndrome' is most often found in the _______________dairy breed?
Brown Swiss
85
Mastitis
60 days

4. What is the classification for a Holstein cow given the numerical value 80-84.9?
Dairy Comp 305
Heat detection and conception rates
Cellulose - hemicellulose - and lignin
Good plus

5. FARAD
Food safety and Inspection Service
Food Animal Residue Avoidance Databank
Administered in the muscle
Negative net energy balance

6. BFP
Sodium Bicarbonate
Basic Formula Price
Total Mixed Ration
Side by side (head out)

7. Which part of an animal touches the ground if he/she is walking on a correct set of feet and legs?
Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
Total Mixed Ration
European Union
Sole

8. To dairymen - the most harmful disease impacting milk production and their economic bottom line is...
A negatively charged ion
Collecting the methane gas being produced and using it as an energy source on the dairy
Mastitis
To add a concentrated form of energy

9. GATT
90-100
General Agreement on Tariff and Trade
Water
Jersey

10. A condition of low blood calcium - which results in partial paralysis of the cow is known as __________________.
80
Sodium Bicarbonate
Nitrogen excretion
Milk fever

11. The annual sale of dairy semen exceeds __________ straws.
After 200 days of lactation
20000000
Sodium Bicarbonate
Reproductive failure

12. About 90% of U.S. dairies use a __________ milking schedule.
Bone calcium
Twice/day
Vibriosis
Manure handling procedures

13. Proponents of global warming having accused cows of being a major factor. This is due to their release of...
80
Carbon Dioxide Gas
Post-synch
2:1

14. When referring to rations - what do the letters NFC stand for?
Commodity Credit Corporation
PGF
Non-forage Carbohydrates
Increase - 5

15. Cows have _____ streak canals per teat.
1
Farm Service Agency
It has a lower vacuum requirement
Small intestine

16. What is a common name for infectious kerato conjunctivitis?
Pink eye
Decreases - increases
Guernsey
In the cell wall

17. What is the USDA's AIPL?
Fats
Listeria
Animal Improvement Program Lab
16-18

18. Rumen bacteria enable dairy cattle to utilize which feed supplement?
Urea
Gonadotropin Releasing Hormone
Bovine Viral Diarrhea
United States Dairy Export Council

19. A mutation where calves have little or no control over the movement of their legs is called...
Limber leg
Poor
Post-synch
Modified Live Virus

20. A very popular dairy management software in Texas is...
Dairy Comp 305
50 percent
Net Energy
Foreign Agricultural Service

21. CCC
Commodity Credit Corporation
Mastitis
5
6 hours

22. A dairyman may milk in a rapid exit barn. This simply means that...
3-6 minutes
National Milk Producers Federation
The cows leave the milkers via an alley wide enough to allow 2 or more cows side by side
40/60

23. What percent non-fiber carbohydrate should a ration contain for high producing cows?
Swollen hock
Cellulose - hemicellulose - and lignin
35 to 40%
2000's

24. When feeding close-up cows a calcium deficient diet - which gland is simulated?
Follicular and luteal
Parathyroid gland
The influence of the sire of the cow on calving ease
Texas Commission on Environmental Quality

25. What are structural carbohydrates made of?
40/60
Parathyroid gland
To give birth
Cellulose - hemicellulose - and lignin

26. What manure waste management method runs manure across a press and squeezes the water out?
Solids removal
Back flushing
Symbiotic
Two times

27. The condition in which the cow is giving more milk than nutrients that she is consuming in feed is called...
Total Production Index
Ringworm
The abomasums of a milk fed calf
Negative net energy balance

28. Which part of an animal touches the ground if he/she is walking on a correct set of feet and legs?
Neutral Detergent Fiber
Sole
16-18
Preparing cows properly

29. Reduced gestation length and retained placenta typically are the first symptoms of _________________ vitamin deficiency
Large intestines
European Union
Vitamin A
Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation

30. Heart girth measurements of cows may be used to estimate...
Energy
Body weight
North American Free Trade Agreement
Jersey

31. Milk let down in a dairy cow may be stimulated by...
Esophageal groove
Potassium
Feeding the cow
.39%

32. FAS
20
Water
Vitamin B
Foreign Agricultural Service

33. Which of the following is an infectious disease?
60
Mud - water - and manure
Ringworm
Animal Improvement Program Lab

34. A material used in a footbath for cows with foot rot problems is...
305 days
Copper sulfate
Recessive
Commodity Credit Corporation

35. When using sexed semen - conception rates are _________ percent of the conception rates achieved when using unsexed semen under the same conditions?
50-80%
25-30
In the cell wall
Reticulum

36. Which compartment of a dairy cow's stomach is located closest to the heart and it is a spot where hardware disease occurs?
Gonadotropin Releasing Hormone
Reticulum
Bone calcium
Mycotoxins

37. What is Milk Fever paresis caused by?
Twice/day
80
Low blood levvels of ionized calcium
After 55 days

38. What structural carbohydrate component makes older plants less digestible than younger plants?
Escherichia coli
Large intestines
Total Mixed Ration
Lignin

39. Which trait is worth the most points according to the Dairy Cow Unified Score Card?
A minimum of every 6 months
National Farmers Organization
Udder
Large intestines

40. New computerized robotic milk stations are becoming a reality today. They have different names but one common one is MOD system. MOD means...
It is not necessary to supplement the intake of Vitamin B complex
Milk on Demand
Duodenum
25-30

41. FSIS
Food safety and Inspection Service
In the cell wall
Guernsey and Jersey
Carbon

42. Bulk tanks must be emptied and cleaned every _____ hours.
72
Nonstructural Carbohydrates
Hardware disease
Reproductive failure

43. Cows that are at risk of developing ketosis can be fed what vitamin to help prevent ketosis?
Roughage
Guernsey
Sickle hocked
Niacin

44. A ____________ is usually necessary when feeding Dairy Cows TMR rations.
Collecting the methane gas being produced and using it as an energy source on the dairy
Mixer box on a truck or trailer
Retained placenta
Follicular and luteal

45. For best results calves should be fed colostrum within ____ hours of calving...
6 hours
Two
PH 4.6
Progesterone

46. IPM
Rolling Herd Average
Nitrogen excretion
PGF
Integrated pest management

47. The portion of the ruminant digestive system which consists of many folds of tissue is the...
Stainless steel
Omasum
Restraint and control of the animal
Udder - feet and legs - body form - & dairy character

48. A perfect score for a cow according to the Dairy Cow Unified Score Card is...
Holstein
Magnesium
100
Holstein

49. BVD
Bovine Viral Diarrhea
Collecting the methane gas being produced and using it as an energy source on the dairy
Bangs
2.25

50. Ways to avoid milk fever in cows
Dairy Farmers of America (DFA)
25-30
Feed low potassium hay - silage - and anionic salts to dry cows
Fat