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Karteikarten von Rory Mc veigh, aktualisiert more than 1 year ago
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Erstellt von Rory Mc veigh
vor etwa 6 Jahre
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| Frage | Antworten |
| ....... are b/w dairy breed with high milk yield | holstein-fresian |
| .... is a red and white dual purpose breed | Simmental |
| Cattle are housed in Nov 1st at ..... kg | 200 |
| dairy heifers are first inseminated in may at.... kg when they are .... months old | 300 kg 15 months |
| beef cattle are slaughtered at....kg | 550 |
| steaming up happens ..... weeks before calving | 10 |
| Steaming up: begin feeding nuts at....kg increase to ......kg | 2kg, 6kg |
| Composition of milk: ...% fat, ...% protein, ...% lactose, ...% mineral (8.7 SNF) | 4% fat, 3.2% protein, 4.7% lactose, 0.8% mineral |
| ____-____ young ____ calves grazing before older animals | Leader-follower, weaned |
| Outdoor pigs | Duroc, Saddleback, Pietrain |
| Creep area just outside the farrowing crate should be kept at __degrees celsius | 28 |
| Bonhams are weaned at __ weeks when they reach __Kg | 5 weeks, 9kg |
| Weaner house is kept at __ degrees celsius | 24 |
| Weaners are fed a ration of __% protein and __% lysine | 15% protein and 0.8% lysine |
| pigs are slaughtered at __KG | 82KG |
| fattener house is kept at __ degrees celsius | 22 degrees |
| fatteners are fed a ration of __% protein and __% lysine | 15% protein and 0.8% lysine |
| Ewes oestrus cycle -every _ days for __ hours from ____ to february | every 17 days for 36 hours from september to february |
| Ewes gestation period | 5 months (149 days ) |
| Sheep slaughter weight and age | 40 kg and 5 months old |
| Age at which mountain sheep are culled for age at | 5 years |
| Low land uses a ______ ram | purebred |
| A ______ ewe is a crossbreed between the prolific border leicester and the blackface mountain | Greyface |
| putting ewes from a low plane of nutrition to a high plane before insemination is called?? | flushing |
| sponging uses a ________ sponge | progesterone |
| steaming up happens __ weeks before ______ | 6 weeks before lambing |
| steaming up prevents ________ | pregnancy toxaemia |
| The weight at which lambs are slaughtered at | 40kg |
| Phylum _______ e.g. babesis bovis | protozoa |
| Phylum _______ e.g. liver fluke | platyhelminthes |
| Phylum _______ e.g. eelworm, lungworm | Nematoda |
| Phylum _______ e.g. earthworm | annelida |
| Phylum _______ e.g. mudsnail, slug | mollusca |
| Phylum _______ classes arachnida and insecta | arthropoda |
| Life cycle of a liver fluke | Adult (in cow) - eggs in poo - miracidium - snail is secondary host - redia - cercaria - cyst |
| life cycle of cabbage white butterfly (______ metamorphosis) | Egg - caterpillar - pupa - butterfly complete metamorphosis |
| life cycle of greenfly (______ metamorphosis) | Egg - Nymph - Adult Incomplete metamorphosis |
| The lungs are involved in ____ | gas exchange |
| the trachea is in the | throat |
| the first part of the small intestine is? | duodenum |
| the part of the brain involved in muscle memory is? | cerebellum |
| the left ventricle pumps blood around the body using the ____ | aorta |
| female reproductive system (from top down) | ovaries, fallopian tubes, uterus, vagina |
| Parts of the ruminant stomach | Rumen, reticulum, omasum, abomasum |
| role of rumen | digest fibre and produces protein |
| role of the reticulum | regurgitate cud |
| role of omasum | squeeze food and absorb protein |
| role of abomasum | secrete enzymes, digest protein |
| calves only use the ___ | abomasum |
| Humans and pigs are _____ animals | monogastric |
| certified potatoes have no ____ or _____ virus | eelworm, leaf-roll |
| potatoes need a pH of? | 5.5 |
| plant earlies e.g. ______ in _____ | homeguard, february |
| 2nd earlies e.g. _______ | british queen |
| plough to depth of ____. power harrow, _____, drill | 20, stone removal |
| bacterial disease of potatoes | black leg |
| potatoes yields: first earlies=___ 2nd=___ maincrop=___ | 10t 20t 40T |
| barley certified seed; ___%germination rate,____%pure | 85%, 98% |
| Barley needs a pH of? | 6.5 |
| Winter barley sown on (date)? | 1st october |
| white patches on barley leaves are a result of powdery _____ fungus | mildew |
| selective herbicides are used to kill ______ weeds | broad-leaf |
| kale can be used as a winter _____ crop, usually ___ grazed | forage, strip |
| kale should be limited to ___% or less of an animals diet | 30% |
| what breed of tree is most commercially grown in Ireland | Sitka Spruce |
| what is used to collect flying insects | swap net |
| silage DMD when being cut (%) | 75% |
| grass, cereal, monocot (family) | graminea |
| florets, dandelion, rag (family) | compositae |
| cross, cabbage (family) | crucifrea |
| rhizobium, clover, gorse (family) | leguminosae |
| Dock (family) | polygonaceae |
| spud (family) | solanaceae |
| carrot (family) | umbelliferae |
| nettle (family) | urticascia |
| rose & fruit (family) | rosacea |
| Onion, monocot (family) | liliaceae |
| buttercup (family) | ranunculaceae |
| beet (family) | chenopodiaceae |
| clovers root nodules converts N2 to | NO3 |
| clover is quite high in | protein |
| item used to transfer bacteria to an agar plate | inoculating loop |
| ______ solution (copper sulfate + sodium hydroxide) tests for protein (blue to lilac) | Biuret |
| _____ tests for vitamin C (blue to colourless) | DCPIP |
| lack of cobalt causes ____ in sheep | pine |
| Chemical weathering includes: ______ (rock dissolves in water) _____ (acid rain) | solution carbonation |
| soil _____ is the way soil particles and cements are put together | structure |
| soil structure is improved by liming (causes ______) and ________ & separation | flocculation, cementation |
| a podzol is an example of a soil ______ | profile |
| soil profile layers : O- _______ layer is peaty and waterlogged A-_____ is leached B-_____ has an iron pan C- bedrock | organic topsoil subsoil |
| _____ cells have the normal number of chromosomes | Diploid |
| _____ cells have half the normal number of chromosomes | Haploid |
| A _____ is the unit of inheritance | Gene |
| an _____ is an alternative form of gene e.g. red hair, brown hair | allele |
| _______ dominance (co-dominance) is where neither allele is dominant | incomplete |
| _________ is when both alleles for a trait are different (Tt) | heterozygous |
| ________ is when both alleles for a trait are the same (tt) | homozygous |
| _____ testing is when you test the calves of a bull against another bulls calves. e.g. for milk yield | progeny |
| _____ testing is comparing two bulls against each other e.g. for aggression | performance |
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