Intro to Livestock Quiz Questions
Reduced Milk is required to have ______% milk fat.
2%
Dairy Cattle reaches peak milk production
45 to 60 days after their lactation
Goats are intermediate grazers and prefer
Browse
Caused by rapid drain of Ca2+ from blood mammry tissue for deposition of milk
Milk Fever
Plants that continue to grow for 3 or more season. Bermuda grass, bahiagrass, fescue, orchardgrass.
Perennials
Swine has what type of cycling
Polyestrous (year round)
Which protein source is produced in the greatest quantity?
Pork
What does PTA stand for in dairy cattle
Predicted Transmitting ability
A beef cattles average rectal temperature is
101.5
Heifers should reach 65% mature size/weight to breed by
15 months
The USA is 3rd in total cattle numbers and 3rd in total cattle harvested, but is what place globally in pounds of beef produced?
1st
Gestation of a pig is
3 months 3 weeks, 3 days
Whole milk is required to have ______% milk fat.
3.5%
. Heifers should be _______ % of their mature size at their first calving.
85%
A group of goats
Band
Hereford, Angus, and Shorthorn are examples of this type of breed. They were brought to the USA to improve on the Texas Longhorn cattle.
British Breeds
Seedstock producers greatest demands are
Bulls
Which state has the largest number of dairy cows and largest income from dairy?
California
Texas has the largest inventory of sheep followed by
California and Colorado
Almost all sheep produce
Cashmere
Which animal has the largest worldwide population?
Chickens
Which country produces the most pork?
China
. _______ is 1st globally in total chicken population but ______ is 1st in pounds of chicken produced.
China: USA
Porkopolis is the nickname of
Cincinnati
Globally, milk is provided in the largest percentage by this animal?
Cow
95% of all market hogs in US are
Crossbred
When h2 is low, ____ will inprove the trait
Crossbreeding
Wisconsin is second and New York is third in
Dairy Cattle
Which of the following animals was first to be domesticated?
Dog
A group of Pigs is called a
Drove
True/ False: Less than 10% of the food we produce is wasted
False
True/ False: People in developing countries drink more whole milk per capita than those in developed countries.
False
Parturition of swine
Farrowing
Most pigs are born in
Farrowing crates
50% of sheep have some percentage of
Fine Wool
Sheep are grazers and prefer
Grass
82.7% of all pigs are on operations with
Greater than 5000 head
Young Female Cattle
Heifer
ha is a measure of the amount of phenotypic variation that is due to additive gene effects
Heritability
Is Arkansas in the lower or higher numbers of states for dairy cattle
Higher 47
Since 1970, the total cow population in the USA has decreased, but the total pounds of beef produced has
Increased
. As the number of cows on a particular farm increases, the milk production per cow does what?
Increases
This country has the most efficient dairy cows, producing more milk/cow than any other country?
Israel
Which country has the most lamb/goat consumption
Mongolia
The process where chilled raw milk is heated to 161 for at least 15 seconds before being quickly cooled back to 39.
Pasteurization
Mature intact male sheep
Ram
Which of the following is true about developed countries?
Small percentage of people involved in production agriculture, high literacy rate, highly mechanized agriculture
Number 1 world swine company
Smithfield/WH
Which region of Arkansas has the fewest cows?
Southeast River Delta
Which State has the most beef cattle
Texas
True/ False: 1 out of 5 children in the USA are food insecure.
True
True/ False: Adding 2 eggs to the diets of Ugandan school children improved height and weight.
True
True/ False: Total agricultural land in the USA has been decreasing over the past 50 years.
True
During the war of 1812, US troops ate pork and said it was from
Uncle Sam
The higher the h2 trait, the ____ it will be to improve the trait
easier
