Animal Nutrition Final True and False 🐱✔️❌
Fescue, Orchard grass and Timothy are all cool season grasses
T
Intensive rotational grazing systems require you to move the animals from one pasture to another on a regular basis
T
It is more efficient to feed a cow for lactation than to over feed her prior to calving and allowing her to pull on the stored nutrient reserves for lactaion
T
Maintenance energy requirements includes energy needed for an animals heart beating and breathing
T
Most fat soluble vitamins can be found in green plants
T
Most minerals are available in several different forms such as oxides, sulfates, carbonates and chlorides
T
Most nutrients are absorbed from the small intestine and into the blood stream
T
Net energy is the amount of energy that is available for an animal to do something, ie maintain itself, grow, produce milk etc.
T
One domestic plant that is toxic to livestock is Japanese Yew
T
One type of feed grinder is known as a Hammer Mill
T
Pelleting feed can be cost effective due to increased grains in feed efficiency
T
Pepsin, Lipase and sucrase are all enzymes
T
Processing feeds improves feed efficiency
T
Rennin is a stomach enzyme that coagulates milk
T
True or False: Feed is the single largest expense associated with raising livestock
T
Water requirements increase in hot weather
T
Wilted wild cherry leaves are toxic to livestock
T
You can make silage in either a horizontal or a vertical silo
T
You ferment plants to make silage
T
A omnivore eats food from only plant sources
F
A pig is a polygastric animal
F
Feed processing has no effect on feed utilization
F
Horses have gall bladders
F
It doesn't matter how you put feed ingredients into a mixer if you want to obtain a well blended mix
F
Minerals, proteins, and carbohydrates are all absorbed primary in the large intestine
F
Rumination is a process by which chickens digest their food
F
Salt for inclusion in diets comes in only one form and can only be white in color
F
Silage is a term that is used to describe dry forage product
F
The farm animal with the largest capacity of its gastrointestinal tract is the chicken
F
The true stomach of a cow is the omasum
F
There are no synthetic sources of vitamins
F
There is no other way to dry to dry hay other than naturally with sunshine
F
True or False: As forages age, you would expect the crude protein levels in them to increase
F
True or False: During periods of high environmental temperatures, you would expect water consumption to decrease
F
True or False: Ground limestone would be a good source of phosphorus
F
True or False: Of the 3 to 5 percent ash within the body, 50% is calcium and 25% is magnesium
F
True or False: One kilo-calorie is equal to one million calories
F
True or False: Saturated fatty acids have one or more double bonds between the carbon atoms within the chain
F
True or False: There is no such thing as essential fatty acids
F
True or False: Vitamin B-12 is only available from plant sources
F
True or False: Vitamins were the first group of dietary nutrients recognized to be essential
F
A calorie is a unit of energy required to raise the temperature of 1 gram of water one degree Celsius from 14.5 to 15.5 degrees
T
Amino Acids are absorbed into the lymph system
T
Ash is a term that refers to the entire amount of mineral in a feed
T
Bitter and Acid tastes in feed tend to decrease palatability
T
Chickens have paired ceca
T
Digestible energy is equal to the amount of energy in feed minus the energy in feces
T
Enzymes serve as organic catalysts that help with the breakdown of feed into absorbable nutrients
T
Fattening animals for market requires a lot of energy
T
Sheep, cows, and goats all have four compartments to their stomach
T
The easiest grazing method to utilize on a farm is a continuous grazing system
T
The farm animal with the digestive system most like a human is the pig
T
The majority of the nutrients required during gestation are needed during the last 1/3 of gestation
T
True or False: Amino Acids can be synthesized within the rumen of ruminant animals
T
True or False: By-Pass protein is protein that can pass through a ruminant animal rumen (fermentation vat) without being degraded
T
True or False: Carbohydrates can include starches, sugars, and cellulose
T
True or False: Factors that can affect the digestibility of a feed stuff include age of the animal being fed, disease, and parasites
T
True or False: Fat soluble vitamins include vitamins A,D,E and K
T
True or False: Feedstuffs that come from plants are good sources of carbohydrates
T
True or False: Gross energy is the total amount of energy that is in a feedstuff
T
True or False: Iron and copper are two minerals with important roles in the body's transport of oxygen
T
True or False: Nitrate toxicity is most common during periods of drought
T
True or False: Non-protein-Nitrogen or NPN is only useful to monogastric animals
T
True or False: Of the amino acids found in nature only 10 are essential to most farm animals
T
True or False: One gram of fat will yield 2.25 times of energy of one gram of carbohydrate or protein
T
True or False: Only young animals, under 48 hours of age can absorb large protein molecules (antibodies)
T
True or False: Proteins are large molecules compared to lipids and carbohydrates
T
True or False: Some vitamins can degrade because of high temperature, long storage, contact with minerals or exposure to U.V. light
T
True or False: The simplest carbohydrates are monosaccharides
T
True or False: There are six classes of nutrients which include: water, carbohydrates, protein, amino acids, minerals and vitamins.
T
True or False: Two metabolic diseases that are associated with carbohydrates are ketosis and diabetes
T
True or False: Vitamin K, when deficient can result in spontaneous hemorrhages and increased blood clotting time
T
True or False: Water us the cheapest, most abundant nutrient
T
You would expect an animal in a cold environment to require less energy for maintenance
F
True or False: Cellulose is a form of protein
F
