Junior Questions
Number of compartments in a cow's stomach.
What is four?
An animal that has two or more breeds in its ancestry.
What is crossbred?
Recommended time frame to castrate lambs and pigs.
The best instrument to determine proper cooking temperature.
What is a cooking thermometer?
Disease transmitted from animal to human.
What is a Zoonotic Disease?
The amount of fat on a market animal.
What is finish?
Two seasons of the year when most purebred calves are born.
What are spring and fall?
Percent of body weight that a normal beef steer will consume in feed each day.
What is 2.5%?
Best procedure for thawing frozen ground beef.
What is thaw in the microwave?
Any object that can spread a disease from touch.
What is fomite?
Feed ingredient normally fed free-choice to beef cows on pasture.
What is salt or minerals?
Inflammation, infection, and hardening of the udder.
What is mastitus?
Most common method to supplement feed beef calves on pasture prior to weaning.
What is creep feeding?
Most common symptoms of food borne illness.
What are stomach and bowel issues?
When you should disinfect equipment used with your animals at a show.
What is after every show?
Rump roast comes from this beef wholesale cut.
What is round?
Percent protein in corn.
What is 8.5?
Most important traits to consider when selecting breeding animals to be used as replacements.
What is structural and reproductive soundness?
Abbreviation for the government agency that is concerned with cause and control of disease.
What is the CDC?
The sum of all the management strategies a site practices to reduce the risk that pathogens will spread to that site.
What is biosecurity?
Shot given to baby pigs after they are born.
What is iron?
What are corn and soybean meal?
Quality Grade for a beef animal with extra fat cover and intra-muscular fat
What is High Choice?
What is the bottom shelf?
Equipment worn to minimize exposure to hazards what cause serious workplace injuries and illnesses.
What is personal protective equipment (PPE)?