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Dairy Cattle Basics
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Milk should be below what temperature before it is transferred to a milk truck?
30 hours
Between 28 to 30 days
40 degrees F
Niacin
2. What numerical value does a Holstein cow get when given the classification good?
75-79.9
Symbiotic
Feed
60
3. HTST is a ______________
Fat residue
The initiation of milk secretion
Low blood levvels of ionized calcium
Pasteurizing system
4. Cows that are at risk of developing ketosis can be fed what vitamin to help prevent ketosis?
Twelve
Manure handling procedures
Rump
Niacin
5. In what year did the Holstein Association start its program of recording carriers of Undesirable Recessive Traits?
Mycotoxins
10
1957
High % of water
6. Generally - high-producing Holsteins eat ___________ pounds of dry matter per day?
Manure handling procedures
Lignin
45-55
Neutral Detergent Fiber
7. A mutation where a calf is born with a single toe on one or more feet is called...
Integrated pest management
87%
Mule-foot
Rolling Herd Average
8. If you add sugar to a milk product - you must ______ the minimum pasteurization temperature by _____ degrees F.
Oxytocin
High-producing pregnant cows
The bacteria Escherichia Coli
Increase - 5
9. Producers using BST must give their cows an injection of it every...
50
14 days
305 days
Milk fever
10. 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?
Epinephrine
Manure handling procedures
Loin and chine
Feed
11. Which dairy breed has a restriction for disallowing black markings?
Premis ID
Milking Shorthorn
70% moisture
A positively charged ion
12. BVD
North American Free Trade Agreement
A positively charged ion
Bangs
Bovine Viral Diarrhea
13. This bacteria causes 'Circling Disease' in cattle...
2:1
4 years
Listeria
Lignin
14. The rumen of a cow is located...
Left side of the body
100
40/60
General Agreement on Tariff and Trade
15. What are structural carbohydrates made of?
Reticulum
Farm Service Agency
Cellulose - hemicellulose - and lignin
Guernsey
16. When using a body condition scoring system of 1 to 5 - What does a score of 5 mean?
20-30%
Extremely fat
100%
Dairy character
17. Fermented forage plants relates to...
Direct Microscopic Counts
Reticulum
Silage
During the first pregnancy
18. USDEC
United States Dairy Export Council
Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation
The tendency for a group of animals to do the same thing at the same time
Sickle hocked
19. 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.
400‐500 gallons
Feed low potassium hay - silage - and anionic salts to dry cows
Sodium
Plate chiller
20. What machine is used to determine if water has been added to milk?
Chine
Relative Forage Value
100
Cryoscope
21. What manure waste management puts solids in a bin and lets it degrade?
Feed
Extremely fat
Post-synch
Composting
22. Cows produce pheromones which...
Integrated pest management
To add a concentrated form of energy
Attract the opposite sex
Between 28 to 30 days
23. On the PDCA Unified Dairy Score Card - the category 'dairy strength' accounts for how many points?
The influence of the sire of the cow on calving ease
Copper sulfate
Post-synch
25
24. Which of the following is not a commonly usedestrus synchronization program for dairy cattle?
Negative net energy balance
Post-synch
25-30
50
25. Manure management is a major concern for most modern - large-scale dairies. The newest management techniques being used involve...
Collecting the methane gas being produced and using it as an energy source on the dairy
87%
Very good
Cellulose - hemicellulose - and lignin
26. Limber leg is found most often in the ____________ dairy breed?
Fats
Income over feed costs
Jersey
Transponders
27. ___________ represents the largest daily input cost in producing milk.
282 days
Feed
Plate chiller
The tendency for a group of animals to do the same thing at the same time
28. FAS
Feed
North American Free Trade Agreement
Foreign Agricultural Service
NAtional Research Council
29. Which of the compartments of a cow's four-compartment stomach acts as the true stomach?
Vitamin A
Parturtion
Abomasum
% Degradable proteins
30. Colostrum has approximately _____ calcium - as does regular milk.
Two times
18
Registered Holstein Ancestry
Mud - water - and manure
31. 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?
Duodenum
The weaving gait of affected cattle
70%
Hormones
32. The rumen of a cow is located...
Calcium
Potassium
Left side of the body
Abortion
33. The most common pathogen found in raw milk is...
Nonfat Dry Milk
4 years
5-9 years old
Escherichia coli
34. New computerized robotic milk stations are becoming a reality today. They have different names but one common one is MOD system. MOD means...
Swollen hock
400‐500 gallons
70% moisture
Milk on Demand
35. All milking equipment must be sanitized...
After each use
Pass from animals to humans and vice versa
Potassium
Silage
36. Normal presentation of a calf for parturition will have...
Front feet toward rear of the cow with head - nose first - between them
50-80%
Ringworm
Sole
37. What is the classification for a Holstein cow given the numerical value 80-84.9?
Increase - 5
Good plus
Oxytocin
Sickle hocked
38. Which one of the following describes biotin?
The bottom most part of the tail
Between 14 and 35 days
A B-Vitamin
Bone calcium
39. Which major dairy breed association was the first to use computers to maintain breed registry records?
Attract the opposite sex
Brucellosis
Guernsey
Feed
40. On the PDCA Unified Dairy Score Card - the category 'dairy strength' accounts for how many points?
Administered under the skin
Direct Microscopic Counts
Holstein
25
41. What is a common name for infectious kerato conjunctivitis?
Listeria
Vitamin A
A national dairy farmer-funded program that is used to help stabilize milk prices
Pink eye
42. The rear quarters produce __________% of the daily milk yield.
60
Udder
Registered Holstein Ancestry
No less than 60% moisture
43. What is the most essential nutrient in animal feeding animals and maintaining health?
9%
Parallels out performed herringbones by nearly 8%
Disbudding
Water
44. In a sire's proof - daughters' calving ease measures __________________.
2.25
Inguinal
50-70
The influence of the sire of the cow on calving ease
45. What structural carbohydrate component makes older plants less digestible than younger plants?
45-55
Methane
30 hours
Lignin
46. NFO
National Farmers Organization
Cation-Anion Difference
Disbudding
Propionic acid
47. What pathway in youg calves direct milk into the abomasum - bypassing the rumen - reticulum - and omasum?
Esophageal groove
Restraint and control of the animal
Mastitis
Brown Swiss
48. The hormone BST is given to dairy cows...
750000
High % of water
Direct Microscopic Counts
After 200 days of lactation
49. In regards to pedigrees - What is a RHA?
Abortion
Digital Dermatitis
Registered Holstein Ancestry
Parathyroid gland
50. What is the largest cost on most U.S. dairy farms?
Feed
Animal Improvement Program Lab
45-55
Registered Holstein Ancestry