Questions and Detailed Answers 2026-
2027 Updated.
Decrease size of operations=increase cost of production - Answer False
Where does most food contamination come from? - Answer You
What term is used when animals are allowed to eat all they want anytime they want? - Answer
Ad Libitum
What does T.D.N. stand for? - Answer total digestible nutrients
What are some examples of roughage? - Answer hay, straw, silage, and pasture
Which correctly describes the term fill? - Answer the contents of the digestive tract
what are Animals having a common organ and characteristics that distinguish them from other
groups within the same species? - Answer a bred
to cull an animal is to - Answer eliminate
Open refers to pregnant females - Answer false
A.I. stands for - Answer artificial insemination
the period of mating activity in the female is termed - Answer estrus(heat)
What is the gestation length of bovine? - Answer 283 days
What is the gestation length of equine? - Answer 340 days
What is the gestation length of porcine? - Answer 113 days
What is the gestation length of ovine and caprine? - Answer 147 days
, what is the term for difficult birth? - Answer dystocia
What is the process for removing testicles? - Answer castration
Lactation period is termed as - Answer the period where females produce milk
What is a fast growing, muscular, late maturing, low milking breed called? - Answer sire breed
What is an early maturing sexually inherently fertile breed? - Answer maternal breed
What breed displays desirable traits from multiple breeds and is fast growing? - Answer
composite/cross breed
What are the two classes of genetic origin? - Answer Bos taurus and Bos indicus
Which breed of cattle has excellent marbling and the largest number of annual registrations in
the U.S. - Answer Angus
Which continental breed is white, extremely fast growing. and fast maturing? - Answer
Charolais
Which of the following breeds of cattle originated in India and is known from its heat tolerance
and disease resistance - Answer brahman
Which breed of cattle is 50% brahman, 25% Hereford, and 25% shorthorn - Answer
beefmaster
Which breed of diary cattle has the highest percentage of butterfat - Answer Jersey
Which breed of swine is white in color with huge drooping ears and is the MOST prolific swine
breed with an extra vertebrae - Answer Landrace
Which breed of swine is called the mother breed with erect ears - Answer yorkshire
which breed of swine is reddish brown with drooping ears - Answer duroc