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....... are b/w dairy breed with high milk yield
.... is a red and white dual purpose breed
Cattle are housed in Nov 1st at ..... kg
dairy heifers are first inseminated in may at.... kg when they are .... months old
beef cattle are slaughtered at....kg
steaming up happens ..... weeks before calving
Steaming up: begin feeding nuts at....kg increase to ......kg
Composition of milk:
...% fat, ...% protein, ...% lactose,
...% mineral (8.7 SNF)
____-____ young ____ calves grazing before older animals
Outdoor pigs
Creep area just outside the farrowing crate should be kept at __degrees celsius
Bonhams are weaned at __ weeks when they reach __Kg
Weaner house is kept at __ degrees celsius
Weaners are fed a ration of
__% protein and __% lysine
pigs are slaughtered at __KG
fattener house is kept at __ degrees celsius
fatteners are fed a ration of
__% protein and __% lysine
Ewes oestrus cycle -every _ days for __ hours from ____ to february
Ewes gestation period
Sheep slaughter weight and age
Age at which mountain sheep are culled for age at
Low land uses a ______ ram
A ______ ewe is a crossbreed between the prolific border leicester and the blackface mountain
putting ewes from a low plane of nutrition to a high plane before insemination is called??
sponging uses a ________ sponge
steaming up happens __ weeks before ______
steaming up prevents ________
The weight at which lambs are slaughtered at
Phylum _______ e.g. babesis bovis
Phylum _______ e.g. liver fluke
Phylum _______ e.g. eelworm, lungworm
Phylum _______ e.g. earthworm
Phylum _______ e.g. mudsnail, slug
Phylum _______
classes arachnida and insecta
Life cycle of a liver fluke
life cycle of cabbage white butterfly
(______ metamorphosis)
life cycle of greenfly
(______ metamorphosis)
The lungs are involved in ____
the trachea is in the
the first part of the small intestine is?
the part of the brain involved in muscle memory is?
the left ventricle pumps blood around the body using the ____
female reproductive system
(from top down)
Parts of the ruminant stomach
role of rumen
role of the reticulum
role of omasum
role of abomasum
calves only use the ___
Humans and pigs are _____ animals
certified potatoes have no ____ or _____ virus
potatoes need a pH of?
plant earlies e.g. ______ in _____
2nd earlies e.g. _______
plough to depth of ____. power harrow, _____, drill
bacterial disease of potatoes
potatoes yields: first earlies=___
2nd=___
maincrop=___
barley certified seed;
___%germination rate,____%pure
Barley needs a pH of?
Winter barley sown on (date)?
white patches on barley leaves are a result of powdery _____ fungus
selective herbicides are used to kill ______ weeds
kale can be used as a winter _____ crop, usually ___ grazed
kale should be limited to ___% or less of an animals diet
what breed of tree is most commercially grown in Ireland
what is used to collect flying insects
silage DMD when being cut (%)
grass, cereal, monocot (family)
florets, dandelion, rag (family)
cross, cabbage (family)
rhizobium, clover, gorse (family)
Dock (family)
spud (family)
carrot (family)
nettle (family)
rose & fruit (family)
Onion, monocot (family)
buttercup (family)
beet (family)
clovers root nodules converts N2 to
clover is quite high in
item used to transfer bacteria to an agar plate
______ solution (copper sulfate
+ sodium hydroxide) tests for protein (blue to lilac)
_____ tests for vitamin C (blue to colourless)
lack of cobalt causes ____ in sheep
Chemical weathering includes:
______ (rock dissolves in water)
_____ (acid rain)
soil _____ is the way soil particles and cements are put together
soil structure is improved by liming (causes ______) and ________ & separation
a podzol is an example of a soil ______
soil profile layers :
O- _______ layer is peaty and waterlogged
A-_____ is leached
B-_____ has an iron pan
C- bedrock
_____ cells have the normal number of chromosomes
_____ cells have half the normal number of chromosomes
A _____ is the unit of inheritance
an _____ is an alternative form of gene e.g. red hair, brown hair
_______ dominance (co-dominance) is where neither allele is dominant
_________ is when both alleles for a trait are different (Tt)
________ is when both alleles for a trait are the same (tt)
_____ testing is when you test the calves of a bull against another bulls calves.
e.g. for milk yield
_____ testing is comparing two bulls against each other e.g. for aggression
