Nutrition Flashcards
A body condition score of 1 means what?
Severe underconditioning
What does a body condition score of 2 mean?
Frame is obvious
What does a body condition score of 3 mean?
Frame and covering well balanced
What does a body condition score of 4 mean?
Frame is not as visible as covering
What does a body condition score of 5 mean?
Severe overconditioning
Why do dairy cattle need to be kept thinner?
Because they are prone to hepatic lipidosis
What is the dental formula of cattle?
0/4, 0/0, 3/3, 3/3
Total of 32
What do cattle of instead of upper incisors?
Dental pad
How much can a rumen hold?
42.5 gallons
What byproducts are eructated?
Methane
Carbon dioxide
What is the rumen pH?
6.2 and 7.2
How much water do healthy mature cattle drink per day?
10 to 14 gallons
What should beef calves be fed?
Creep feed
What is creep fed?
Small amounts of grain in a location to which the dam does not have access
What should be fed free choice to cattle?
Sodium and Chloride
Deficiencies of what can lead to increases in stillbirths?
Iodine
High-grain diets can cause this deficiency and can be corrected with the use of limestone?
Calciium
Phosphorous deficiency results in what in young animals?
Poor appetite, slow growth, and unthriftiness
Phosphorous deficiency in lactating animals causes what?
Fragile bones
Poor appetitie
Deficiencies in what can cause listlessness, ocular discharge, anemia, ketosis, abortions, decreased milk production and decreased appetite
Cobalt
Deficiency in this causes signs of neurologic disorders, lameness, anemia, diarrhea?
Copper
What levels vary in the soil and should be fed in a trace mineralized salt?
Selenium
Young male animals require higher levels of this for normal testicular development?
Zinc
