Animal Science part 1

Question 1

Define ration

Answer 1

The amount/Content of food eaten by an animal in 1 day`

Question 2

What are the 6 essential nutrients

Answer 2

Water, Protein, Carbs, Vitamins, Minerals and Fats

Question 3

Animals contain how much water

Answer 3

75%

Question 4

How does water help animals

Answer 4

Helps regulate body heat through perspiration and evaporation

Question 5

How does Protein help animals

Answer 5

Used to maintain the body, as cells are continually dying and being replaced. Also it is a major component to muscles and tissues

Question 6

How does carbs help animals

Answer 6

Provide energy and heat and make up about 75% of rations

Question 7

How does vitamins help animals

Answer 7

Used for clotting blood, forming bones, reproducing, keeping membranes healthy, producing milk and preventing certain nervous system disorders

Question 8

How does minerals help animals

Answer 8

the skeleton is composed mostly of minerals. the endocrine system is heavily dependent on various minerals, as are the circulatory, urinary and nervous systems

Question 9

how does fats help animals

Answer 9

improves the palatability, flavor, texture, and energy levels of feed. also it increases the milk supply

Question 10

protein source examples

Answer 10

soybeans, peanuts, cotton seed and linseed, legume hays, fish meat, blood meal and whey

Question 11

carbs source examples

Answer 11

cereal grains, corn, wheat, barley, oats, rye, non legume hays, orchard grass

Question 12

fat source examples

Answer 12

most sources of protein are also sour….ch as oil seeds and animal byproducts

Question 13

vitamin source examples \ mineral source examples

Answer 13

Rumen, vitamin D from sunlight, contact with soil and feeds grown on fertile land

Question 14

concentrate examples

Answer 14

corn, grain byproducts and oil mills

Question 15

dry roughages

Answer 15

legumes, hay, grass hay, hulls of cottonseed, peanuts and rice

Question 16

Green roughages

Answer 16

plant materials with high moisture content such as grasses in pastures or tubers such as potatoes

Question 17

Define ruminants

Answer 17

A class of animals that have stomachs with more than one compartment.

Question 18

Ruminant example

Answer 18

Cattle, sheep and goat

Question 19

Define monogastric

Answer 19

Having a stomach with one compartment

Question 20

Monogastric example

Answer 20

Swine, horses and humans

Question 21

Explain the poultry digestive system

Answer 21

Polygastric but includes a crop and gizzard (aka: avian digestive)

Question 22

What is the largest ruminant compartment called

Answer 22

The rumen

Question 23

Internal parasite examples

Answer 23

Heartworms or roundworms

Question 24

External parasite examples

Answer 24

Flies, ticks, lice, mites and fleas

Question 25

What will happen to an animal with parasites

Answer 25

Isolation to treat them.

Question 26

What happens to new animals

Answer 26

Isolation for 30 days

Question 27

Explain pastes

Answer 27

Normally used for treating horses for worms

Question 28

How do you apply pastes

Answer 28

Place caulking gun at the back of animals tongue and the animal is forced to swallow

Question 29

How do you apply pills

Answer 29

1)Restrain the animal
2)Lift its head so the mouth opens
3)Gently place the pill far back on the tongue with balling gun and massage throat

Question 30

Explain drenching

Answer 30

Administering large amounts of liquids to an animal

Question 31

How does drenching work

Answer 31

With a syringe or drenching gun

Question 32

Explain powders

Answer 32

Usually mixed in feed or water of animal at normal feeding time

Question 33

Explain pasture rotation

Answer 33

For grazing animals on a regular basis, it breaks the cycle of parasites

Question 34

Define intravenous injection

Answer 34

Injection in the vein

Question 35

Define intramuscular injection

Answer 35

Injection in the muscle

Question 36

Define subcutaneous injection

Answer 36

Injection under the skin

Question 37

Define intramedial injection

Answer 37

Injection between layers of skin

Question 38

Define intrarumal injection

Answer 38

Injection in the rumen

Question 39

Define intrapertioneal injection

Answer 39

Injection in the abdominal cavity

Question 40

Define dipping

Answer 40

Process for treating animals mostly cattle and sheep for external parasites