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which of the following is a management approach in which supply chains are united through a single owner?
Vertical Integration
depradation is the death of livestock due to what?
predators
cattle gestation length
283 days
proximal means
nearest
Which of the following serves as a bypass between the esophagus and the abomasum allowing young ruminants to consume and digest milk?
reticular groove
what grades and determines fineness of wool
micron diameter
correct term for castrated bull
steer
swine gestation length
114 days
Which of the following is the process of converting animal tissue into valueadded material?
Rendering
Merah’s flock is experiencing reduced conception rates, fewer multiple births and reduced milk production. She feels like this is due to an energy deficiency in their diet. Which of the following would she most likely add to their diet to increase the energy?
carbs
in freeze branding, branding iron is chilled with?
liquid nitrogen
what should you feed a newborn mammal right after birth
colostrum
chicken gestation length
22 days
Hudson raises blackface show lambs and is looking to improve his herd by purchasing a ram to breed to his best ewes. He would like to buy a ram which is a descendent of White Rock, a ram who has sired numerous champions. Which of the following selection criteria would Hudson be using in this scenario?
Pedigree
McKinley owns and manages a purebred Hampshire swine operation. She retains all superior gilts and sells the remaining females to other operations as replacements. She markets her boar progeny to commercial producers with confinement operation facilities. Of the following, which best describes McKinley’s type of swine operation?
Seedstock operation
compared to cows milk, goat milk is what?
more easily digested by humans
Not an ungulate
chicken
horse gestation length
336 days
Casandra noticed several of her cows where “staggering” and uncoordinated in their movement while walking across the pasture. Her cows show symptoms of which of the following disorders?
grass tetany
Calvin is vaccinating his goat kids with a clostridium perfringens type C and D toxoid. This is to safeguard against which of the following diseases?
Entertoxemia
Not a typical identification method for livestock is
GPS
"tenting" method is used for what type of injection
subq
filly is a female horse younger than_____ years of age
four
Xavier has a lamb with bloody diarrhea and appears to have suffered significant weight loss. With which of the following internal parasites is the lamb most likely infected?
whipworms
Kimberly is wintering her cows on a wheat pasture. In order to help prevent grass tetany, what type of mineral supplement should she supply her cows?
magnesium