Livestock CDE Test Bank 76-100

When evaluating swine performance data, litter weights are adjusted to a standard of how many days?

• 12 days

• 21 days

• 15 days

• 28 days

Which breed of sheep was developed at North Carolina State University

• suffolk

• hampshire

• polled Dorset

• southdown

Diseases caused by a virus or bacteria are classed as:

• pathogenic

• morphological

• physiological

• nutritional

Cholera is a __________ disease.

• nutritional

• viral

• fungal

• bacterial

____________ is a disease that affects the tissue of the foot in sheep.

• foot root

• scrapie

• tentanus

• impaction

Newborn animals receive immunity to diseases by drinking

• sterile water

• fibrinogen

• vaccines

• colostrum

The period of time which an animal is pregnant is called:

• ovulation

• gestation

• estrus

• parturition

Range production accounts for __________ percent of the total sheep production in the United States.

• 30

• 70

• 10

• 50

The average age of puberty in sheep is:

• 12 months

• 3 months

• 6 months

• 18 months

The average daily gain for growing cattle on full feed

• 1 lb/day

• 10 lb/day

• 5 lb/day

• 3 lb/day