Intro to Dairy
This is the top dairy state for US milk production and inventory.
What is California?
This is the most common modern breed, and is known for fluid volume.
What is the Holstein?
This is a popular index that includes the relative economic value of milk, milkfat, protein, health traits, productive life and fertility.
This category of the PDCA scorecard is worth the most amount of points.
What is the udder?
In the US, dairy calves are most often weaned at this age.
Cattle were originally printed on coins because they were a symbol of ____.
What is wealth?
This is the smallest dairy breed and is known for milk with high components.
This index is the "gold standard" in the industry and includes production, health, fertility, and confirmation.
What is TPI or Total Performance Index?
Excellent (90-99) to poor (65-69), average is 80.
These are two disadvantages to utilizing an automated calf feeder.
Scours, investment, backgrounding, management, maintenance
This is the only US milk product that has experienced a decrease in production since 1970.
This breed is known to be an excellent grazer, and has milk that can be slightly yellow in color.
This is defined as an animals' average genetic merit. It is analogous to EPD's in beef cattle and is used to calculate indexes.
What is PTA or Predicted Transmitting Abilities?
Body size, "constitution", and "style" are part of this evaluation category.
What is dairy strength?
Name 3 pathogens that cause scours.
E. Coli, Salmonella, Clostridium P., Rotavirus, Coronavirus, BVD/IBR, Cryptosporidia, Coccidiosis
The average Georgia herd size is around ____ cattle.
What is 623?
This large dairy breed is known to mature later than others, but is also known for a long productive life.
This is the portion of a bull's genome that can be attributed to his performance. It is used to predict his future progeny performance.
Topline falls into this portion of the type classification categories.
These are the 3 different immunoglobulin types.
What is IgG, IgM, and IgA?
This top dairy state experienced a significant drop in dairy cow inventory from 1970 to 2021.
This Scottish breed is known to be strong and rugged with symmetrical udders.
What is the Ayrshire?
These are the 3 top reasons for culling cows.
What is reproductive inefficiency, disease, and low production?
Slight set, adequate heel depth, not sickle-hocked, not too posty
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