Cow Anatomy
Diet & Digestion
Disease
Random Facts!
100

The top of a cows head is called...

What is the Poll?

100

Cows prefer to ruminate when they are doing this...

What is Lying Down?

100

This illness is inflammation or infection of the lungs and calves are particularly susceptible...

What is Pneumonia?

100
The process of heating milk to a high temperature to kill bacteria is called...

What is pasteurization?

200

The structure that connects muscle to bone...

What is the Tendon?

200

Energy loss in the digestive tract is mainly in the form of...

What is Manure?
200

The single most expensive disease in the dairy industry...

What is Mastitis? 

200

Approximately 1/3 of all milk produced every year in the U.S. goes to making this...

What is cheese? 
300

A cow has this many upper front teeth...

What is none? 

300

Cows are this type of animal, because they ingest and regurgitate their food...

What is Ruminant?

300

A calf has runny, stinky, yellow stool. The calf likely has...

What is Scours? 

300

Pollination of the Alfalfa Seed depends on this insect...

What is the bee?

400

A cows stomach has four compartments. Their names are...

What are the Rumen, Reticulum, Omasum, and the Abomasum?

400

In a mature cow, this part of their stomach is the largest...

What is the Rumen?

400

Cows that have recently calved experience a drop in blood concentration of this mineral...

What is Calcium?
400

Polled cattle are born without this...

What are horns?

500

The desired angle of a dairy cow's hoof is...

What is 45 ยบ ?

500

This is a super-powered serum that has the potential to directly impact calves' health, growth, and productivity from Day 1 to adulthood...

What is Colostrum?

500

CMT stands for...

What is California Mastitis Test? 

500

The World Record for the tallest Bovine in the world, was this breed...

What is Holstein? 

(Blossom, measured 6ft 2in, or 74.8" tall)