Dairy Breeds
What is the Number 1 dairy breed in the US?
Holstein
What color cap does whole milk have?
Red
How many teats make up one udder?
4
A resting area where cows are free to lay where they please in between milkings.
Freestall barn
What is the oldest breed in the world?
Milking Shorthorn
What is lactose?
Sugar
What does the mammary veins do?
Carries blood to the udders
carousel-like milking parlor
Rotary milking parlor
What dairy breed is known for high amounts of butterfat in its milk?
Jersey
List the three frozen dairy products we talked about in class.
Ice cream, sherbet, frozen yogurt
What happens if one teat stops producing milk?
The three other teats will continue to produce milk.
Parallel milking parlor
What dairy breed is know for high amounts of beta carotene in the milk?
Guernsey
This dairy product is a cultured dairy product. It has a green lid.
Buttermilk
What is the most common disease in dairy cattle?
Bovine Masititis
Cows are milked in a line head to tail within this milking parlor and the parlor is named after this type of bike.
Tandem
What dairy breed adapts well to all types of climates and is noted for their good udders, feet, and legs?
Brown Swiss
One of the two categories for cheese is natural, what is the other one?
Processed
What holds the milk?
Cisterns
In this milking parlor cows stand at a 45 degree angle. It is commonly used on smaller dairy farms.
Herringbone milking parlor