....... 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