VET 211 Topic 9 review

What is a Heifer?

• A young animal

• Female older than 30 months old or has given birth

• Female who has not given birth and is less than 30 months old

• An intact male

A cow is a...

• Young Animal

• A female who has not given birth and is less than 30 months old

• Older than 30 months old or has given birth

• An intact male

A steer is a

• Intact male

• A young animal

• Castrated male that is older than 4 years

• A castrated male who is less than 4 years old

The most popular dairy cow in the world is

• The Holstein

• The Texas Longhorn

• The brown swiss

• Herford

Cattle are

• Monogastric

• True ruminants

• Functional Ruminants

• diagastric

Which is not a part of a bovines "four stomachs"

• Rumen

• Ramen

• Reticulum

• Abomasum

Do cattle have top incisors?

• Yes they do

• No they do not

Match the following

• Omasum

• The true glandular stomach. The only compartment lines with glands.

• Abomasum

• Globe-shaped structure containing leave of tissue (like pages in a book). Squeezes/ absorbs fluids and electrolytes out of ingesta.

• Reticulum

• The honeycomb. This traps anything the cow should not have eaten

• Rumen

• The largest compartment. Storage or holding vat for feed. Main fermentation vat. Has a papillae lining

The CALFS largest stomach compartment is the....

What part of the four stomachs does not function when a cow is a calf?