Test your basic knowledge |

Dairy Cow Industry

Subject : industries
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
  • If you are not ready to take this test, you can study here.
  • Match each statement with the correct term.
  • Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.

This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. State producing the most milk (total pounds).






2. The dairy breed with a golden yellow color to its milk.






3. Method of feeding cows aimed at finding their potential to secrete milk and used to prevent metabolic shortage in energy.






4. Hormone stimulates milk production.






5. Caused by a deficiency of Mg in the diet.






6. Age conversion formulas applied to milk production of young cows to compare their milk yield with more mature cows.






7. MUN is abbreviation for ___________?






8. Unulent fever in people.






9. Also known as Bacillary hemoglobinuria.






10. Four of the leading states in milk production are ___ ___ __ __






11. _____ and _____ are two reportable external parasites common to dairy and beef cattle.






12. Viral disorder that causes lesions indistinguishable from those of foot-and-mouth disease.






13. An infertile female calf born co-twin to a bull.






14. Is the nation with the highest producing dairy cows.






15. Stiff Lamb - Nutritional Muscular Dystrophy - Caused by a defficiency of Vitamin E or Selenium in dairy calves.






16. Another name for carousel type milk barn.






17. Caused by Actinomy bovis.






18. Should only be used as a last resort for the treatment of ruminal tymphany.






19. Normal rectal temperature of a dairy cow.






20. Hormone stimulates mammary duct development.






21. Cause of cattle grubs.






22. Common name for papillomatous digital dermatitis.






23. PTAT






24. Agent which destroys worms in digestive tract.






25. 'Barn-itch'.






26. Adjustment of milk with different fat percentages to equivalent amounts on an energy basis.






27. Disease characterized by pneumonia or septicemia. The highest incidence occurs in animals subjected to stress.






28. Also known as hyperkeratosis.






29. A zoonotic disorder affecting as many as 90% of dairy farms.






30. Used to regularly evaluate where an individual cow stands in body condition relative to the ideals for her stage in lactation.






31. Also called gas gangrene.






32. Common name for ruminal tymphany.






33. Most common limiting nutrient for high milk yield.






34. Common name for interdigital phlegmon.






35. Common name for syndactylism.






36. Naturally hornless.






37. Recommended method for dairy cattle.






38. Molds which develop on feed producing toxins.






39. Most common treatment for milk fever.






40. Standardization of lactation records to the level of yield that would have been attained by each cow if she had been a mature cow and calved in the month of the year of highest calving frequency for her breed.






41. One of the most commonly diagnosed viruses in bovine abortion cases and easily prevented with vaccination and improved sanitation.






42. Rolling herd average for U.S. dairy herd.






43. Number of dairy cows in the United States.






44. Parts blood must pass through the udder to produce milk.






45. The dairy breed that is used mostly for milk and veal is _____






46. Diarrhea.






47. A fatal protozoan disease of cattle that destroys the red blood cells - causing anemia and death.






48. An example of a trematode.






49. The mammary system of a cow is divided into ___ independent parts.






50. Also known as Bovine genital Campylobacteriosis.