Husbandry
The minimum amount of water a dairy cow must drink per day to stay healthy.
Female cattle that HAVE calved (given birth).
What is a Cow?
The number of times per day most dairy cows are milked.
What is 2-3 times per day?
The area where cows are milked.
What is a milking parlor?
True or False: Cows have COMPLETE 360-degree panoramic vision.
FALSE, but they can see ALMOST 360-degrees. Their only blind spot is directly behind them and they do have to turn their head to see directly in front of them.
Most of a dairy cow's diet.
What are Forages?
What is a Heifer?
This will cause dairy cows to produce less milk.
What is stress?
Cows stand next to each other and milking is done from behind.
What is a "Parallel" milking parlor?
True or False: Cows can sleep standing up.
TRUE, but they prefer to lie down to reach REM sleep.
This type of feed is fed to dairy cattle to help increase energy. Too much of this feed can cause acidosis.
What are Grains?
Young male dairy bulls are used for this.
What is Veal?
If a forage is too high in protein, it may cause this illness in cattle.
What is Bloat?
The type of milking parlor where cows are positioned in a "V" shape at a 45 degree angle, allowing milking access from the side.
What is a "Herringbone" milking parlor?
True or False: Dairy cattle can produce between 50-100 glasses of milk per day.
TRUE! Depending on their management and diet, they can produce up to 128 glasses of milk per day! On average, 50-90 per day.
This type of preserved forage, made from fermented grass or corn, is used to feed dairy cows, mainly in winter.
What is Silage?
An animal with ONE specialized stomach that is divided into FOUR compartments. This allows the animals to digest fibrous plant material.
What is a Ruminant?
This practice involves preventing the spread of disease by controlling access to the farm and keeping the environment, animals and the equipment clean.
What is Biosecurity?
This is a rotating platform where cows stand on individual stalls that move in a circular motion for continuous milking.
What is a "Rotary" milking parlor?
True or False: Typical gestation for cattle is similar to humans (approximately 9 months)
TRUE! 9 months or 280 days.
This vitamin, also known as the 'sunshine vitamin,' is important for calcium absorption and bone health in dairy cows.
What is Vitamin D?
An infection in the mammary gland (for dairy cows an infection in the udder).
What is Mastitis?
The 3 main management focal points that are important to running a productive dairy farm.
What are...?
1. Routine/Consistency (Stress-free environment can also count)
2. Biosecurity
3. Proper nutrition
A parlor where cows are positioned in individual stalls, nose to tail, with direct access for milking from the rear.
What is a "Tandem" milking parlor?
The world record for the most milk produced by a single cow in one year is (approximately):
a) 55,000 lbs
b) 65,000 lbs
c) 75,000 lbs
C) approximately 75,000 lbs.
The world record for the most milk produced by a single cow in one year is 78,170 pounds, set by Selz-Pralle Aftershock 3918 in 2017. This broke the prior record set by Bur-Wall Buckeye Gigi, from Wisconsin, in 2015, of 74,650 pounds of milk in a year.