When new cattle are brought to the farm, they should be vaccinated when?
What is immediately?
100
Which type of beef cattle enterprise requires the least facilities?
What is cow-calf?
100
Great care should be taken to clean all medicated feed from the feed mixer to:
What is Avoid drug contamination.
100
In commercial broiler operations, baby chicks need heat given by?
What is brooders?
200
This animal system secretes hormones into the blood to travel to and stimulate certain organs to perform their specific functions.
What is circulatory?
200
Which disease in cattle would cause cows to abort during the last half of pregnancy, retain afterbirth or be sterile?
What is Brucellosis
200
Almost all the hogs produced in North Carolina are raised in?
What is a climate controlled confinement house?
200
Hay, silage and pasture grasses are classified as:
What is Roughages
200
The gene in a pair that hides the effect of the other gene is a:
What is Dominant gene
300
An animal science student is labeling the parts of a pig's nervous system, what is the name of the part in the center of the vertebral column that is also connected to the brain?
What is spinal cord?
300
Which preventive maintenance procedure is performed as a part of breeding flock management to prevent the spread of diseases from eggs?
What is Fumigating with formaldehyde
300
Which component of a North Carolina animal waste management plan includes soil and waste analysis reports and dates and rates of waste applied to land sites?
What is Record Keeping
300
The feed additive that should be selected for use when there is NO specific known disease is:
What is Broad-spectrum antibiotics.
300
A gene pair that carries two different genes that affect a trait is:
What is Heterozygous.
400
Which of these performance data is a measure of growth rate in swine?
What is Adjusted days to 230 pounds
400
An area of biotechnology that uses monoclonal antibodies to improve animal health by increasing accuracy and reducing time is:
What is Diagnostic testing.
400
In most commercial laying flocks of chickens, the lights are controlled by:
What is automatic time clocks?
400
Which feed additive will suppress estrus in beef cattle heifers?
What is Melengestrol (MGA)
400
What type of breeding is used because of the low fertility problems and the large size of male turkeys?
What is Artificial insemination
500
A bull with an Estimated Breeding Value (EBV) of +60 pounds for yearling weight would have an Expected Progeny Difference (EPD) of +30 pounds because:
What is Half the trait comes from the mother.
500
Which swine disease is caused by a very contagious virus that kills almost 100 percent of baby pigs and has symptoms of vomiting, dehydration and diarrhea with white, yellow or green feces?
What is Transmissible Gastroenteritis (TGE)
500
To prevent injury to cattle, people, and facilities and to save space, cattle should be
What is Dehorned
500
Data on feed composition calculated on the basis of the average amount of moisture in the feed as it is used on the farm is:
What is As-fed basis.
500
The biotechnology activity that can most rapidly increase the uniformity of cattle in a herd is: