Beef Cattle

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1. What is the most common mineral deficiency in cattle and is most likely to occur in cattle being wintered on all-roughage rations or on mature, cured grass? Magnesium Vitamin A Sulfur Phosphorus

2. What term in given for the difference in offspring performance and the average of the two parents' performance for the same trait? Heterosis Breed Selection Psychosis Crossbreeding

3. Which of the following is NOT of the three structures of the fetal membranes? Purion Amnion Chorion Allantois

4. The salivary glands of cattle, located beneath the tongue, produce how many gallons of saliva per day? Less than 5 Over 25 5- 10 15-20

5. What is the practice of providing supplemental feed to nursing calves? Timed Feeding Creep Feeding Liquid Feeding Nursing

6. Which one of the following is not an example of an ionophore? Naracin Rumensin Clarenden Bovatec

7. What is the the membranous portion that unites the fetus and the placenta? Transponder Cord Placentomes Capillaries Umbilical Cord

8. Approximately, how many days is the gestation period for cows? 183 335 243 283

9. What term is applied to cases of prolonged and difficult births? Pelvimetry Expulsion Parturition Dystocia

10. What vitamin deficiency is the chief cause of muscular dystrophy or white muscular disease in calves between the ages of 2 and 12 weeks? Vitamin K Vitamin A Vitamin E Vitamin B