Beef Cattle
Fat present in muscle tissue
What is marbling?
Only acceptable body color of an American Red Brangus.
Current American Red Brangus Association President.
Term that describes an animal that has extremely straight hind legs
Subcutaneous injections are given.
What is under the skin?
Estrus in cattle usually occurs every...
What is 21 days?
The method of animal identification that is required by the American Red Brangus Association.
What is hot or freeze brand?
Founder of the American Red Brangus Association.
Who is Mike Levi?
The amount of fat cover on a market steer.
What is finish?
A nutritional problem characterized by a swollen abdomen on the left side, labored breathing, profuse salivation, groaning, lack of appetite, and stiffness.
What is bloat?
The greatest expense in the production of livestock according to USDA.
True/False. American Red Brangus have defined blood percentages required for registration.
What is False?
City and state in which the American Red Brangus was developed.
Term that describes the physical appearance of an animal.
What is a phenotype?
A disease carried by insects that affect the eyes of cattle.
What is pink eye?
The gestation time for cattle (in days)
What is 283 days?
A specific trait of American Red Brangus in which they can maintain their body temperature and productivity under high heat and humidity conditions.
Year in which the American Red Brangus was developed?
What is 1946?
Affect by the age of the beef animal and the amount of marbling in the carcass.
What is quality grade?
A disease that affects cattle and sheep with symptoms of lameness, followed by depression and fever, followed by swelling in the muscles of the hip, shoulder, chest. Back, and neck, with sudden death within 3 days of the onset of the symptoms.
What is blackleg?
The normal body temperature of cattle.
What is 101.5 F?
Social trait of the American Red Brangus where one or a few cows take on the role of watching over multiple calves while the calves' mothers are grazing or resting.
What is cattle babysitting?
Year in which the American Red Brangus Association was developed.
What is 1956?
A measure of the degree of difference between the offspring of a specific bull and the offspring of the average bull of the breed in the trait being measured.
What is an EPD (expected progeny difference)?
Cattle infected with this disease often abort during the last half of pregnancy.
Brucellosis