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Easy Cow Trivia Quiz Questions With Answers

Printable cow trivia quiz questions with answers.

Easy Cow Trivia  Questions

What are cattle?
A: Cattle are the most common type of large domesticated ungulates, often referred to as simply “cows".

Cattle are raised as livestock for meat, as dairy animals for milk and other dairy products, and as what?
A: Draft animals.

A non- castrated adult male is called a what?
A: A bull.

In the US an unbranded bovine of either sex is called a what?
A: "maverick".

An adult female that has had a calf is a what?
A: Cow.

What do you call a young female before she has had a calf of her own and is under three years of age?
A: A heifer.

Young cattle of both sexes are called calves until what?
A: They are weaned.

In the US a castrated male is called a what?
A: Steer.

What is a springer?
A: A springer is a cow or heifer close to calving.

What do you call cattle raised for human consumption?
A: Beef cattle.

What do you call cattle bred specifically for milk production?
A: Milking or dairy cattle.

A cow kept to provide milk for one family may be called a what?
A: House cow or milker.

Cattle have a highly specialized digestive system to allow the use of what?
A: Poorly digestible plants as food.

Cattle have one stomach with what four compartments?
A: The rumen, reticulum, omasum, and abomasums.

Which is the largest compartment?
A: Rumen.

The reticulum, the smallest compartment, is known as the what?
A: "Honeycomb".

What is the omasum's main function?
A: To absorb water and nutrients from the digestible feed.

The abomasum is like a what?
A: Human stomach.

Cattle are known for regurgitating and re-chewing their food, which is called what?
A: Cud chewing.

While the animal is feeding, the food is swallowed without being what?
A: Chewed.

The swallowed food goes into the rumen for storage until the animal can what?
A: Find a quiet place to continue the digestion process.

What is the gestation period for a cow?
A: About nine months.

A newborn calf's size can vary among breeds, but a typical calf weighs what?
A: Between 55 to 99 lb.

What is the world record for the heaviest bull?
A: 3,840 lb., a Chianina named Donetto, when he was exhibited at the Arezzo show in 1955.

The heaviest steer was an eight-year-old Shorthorn/Hereford cross weighing in at how much?
A: 4,720 lb. in 1910.

Steers are generally killed before reaching what weight?
A: 1,650 lb.

How old was the oldest recorded cow, Big Bertha, when she died in 1993?
A: 48.

Cattle can discriminate between humans by what?
A: Their faces.

In audio play-back studies, calves prefer their own mother's vocalizations compared to what?
A: The vocalizations of an unfamiliar mother.

In cattle, temperament can affect production traits such as what?
A: Carcass and meat quality or milk yield.