Hormones
hormone produced by the pancreas that regulates blood sugar levels
What is insulin?
a sperm fertilizes an egg in a laboratory dish and grows to a young embryo before it is transferred to a cow's uterus
What is In Vitro Fertilization?
Nutrient required in the largest amount
What is Water?
Cost for Holstein Association USA Junior membership
What is $20?
Feed additives sodium bicarbonate and magnesium oxide are categorized as this
What are Buffers?
hormone produced by the pituitary gland that is responsible for the initiation of lactation
What is prolactin?
funnel-shaped end of the oviduct that captures the egg as it is released from the follicle
What is the infundibulum?
Amino Acids are the building blocks
What is Proteins?
Separate Junior Holstein Show at World Dairy Expo began in this year
What is 2004?
Common name for nitrogen dioxide found in silos
What is brown gas?
hormone produced by the corpus luteum, udder, and placenta that assists with calving by relaxing the tendons in the rump and tailhead
What is relaxin?
forms where the follicle ruptures and produces the hormone progesterone
What is the corpus luteum?
Sources: sugars, starch, and fiber
What are Carbohydrates?
Number of National Junior Holstein Shows
What is 4 shows?
Disease in humans is a weakening of the bones through loss of calcium and other minerals
What is osteoporosis?
hormone released from the adrenal glands that opposes the action of oxytocin and prevents milk let down (AKA adrenaline)
What is epinephrine?
hormone produced by the hypothalamus that signals the release of FSH and LH
What is Gonadotropin-releasing hormone?
Nutrient that provides energy- 2.25 times more
What are Fats?
The year Purebred Dairy Cattle Association developed the first Dairy Cow Unified Scorecard
What is 1943?
When evaluating calves for dehydration, normal gums should be damp, and this color
What is Pink?
produced by the parathyroid glands and regulates the amount of calcium in the blood
What is parathyroid hormone?
percentage of animals observed in heat or bred that are eligible to be bred, calculated by the number of cows bred divided by the number of cows eligible to be bred
What is heat detection rate?
Organic compounds needed in small amounts for life support
What are Vitamins?
the grand champion of the 2023 World Dairy Expo Holstein Show
Who is Erbacres Snapple Shakira?
Premature expulsion of the fetus
What is Abortion?