2025 Quiz

Health

100

There are this many CCs in a mL:

1

200

Iron injections are administered to piglets to prevent this disorder.

What is ANEMIA?

300

This hormone is considered the "hormone of darkness" and helps seasonally polyestrous animals such as sheep respond to daylength in order to suppress or allow cyclicity:

Melatonin

400

Lutalyse is a product marketed by Zoetis and used in many cattle AI protocols. Lutalyse contains this hormone:

Prostaglandin

500

Shortly after calving, a cow becomes dull, listless, and unsteady on her feet. The cow goes down, exhibiting flaccid paralysis and is unable to move. She is most likely suffering from this disorder:

Milk fever/postparturient hypocalcemia

Genetics

100

This is the gestation period for swine (in days):

114 days

200

This is how often a cow comes into estrus (in days):

18-21 days

300

This is the part of the female reproductive tract houses the embryo and fetus during gestation:

Uterus

400

The corpus luteum primarily secretes this hormone:

Progesterone

500

An individual that has two of the same allele for a single trait is described as:

Homozygous

Breed Characteristics

100

This swine breed is known for marbling/high meat quality?

Berkshire

200

BQA stands for this in the livestock industry:

Beef Quality Assurance

300

This is the "Mother Breed" of swine

Yorkshire

400

This goat breed was developed in South Africa:

Boer

500

This beef breed was developed in King Ranch, Texas

Santa Gertrudis

Carcass

100

In the context of meat science, PSE stands for:

Pale Soft Exudative

200

Color: Red dark

Bone: No

Fat: some fat layered

Muscle: not too much

Lamb Stew Meat

300

A 250lb hog has a dressing percentage of 70%. The carcass will weigh:

175lbs

400

These are characteristics used to establish quality grade in beef carcasses:

Marbling and Maturity

500

This causes "dark cutting beef"

Long-term stress before slaughter

MISC

100

This is the term used to describe an animal with one stomach compartment:

Monogastric

200

This is the disease that is caused by an infection of the mammary gland:

Mastitis

300

This is the word describing the act of giving birth:

Parturition

400

This is the whole grain with the highest protein content:

Soybean

500

You weigh a lamb and it's 50lbs. A week later, you weigh the same lamb and it's 58lbs. This is its average daily gain:

1.14lbs per day