Ag-science fundamentals

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Fundamentals
Rory Mc veigh
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....... 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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