JUDGING DAIRY CATTLE 



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Bating milk production, but practical experience has rated 

 them as important according to their size and development. 

 Small wells are associated with similarly small veins, and 

 together they limit the supply of blood passing through the 

 udder and thus affect milk production. 



SUPPOSE SOME ONE SHOULD ASK YOU 



1. What is meant by a "blocky" body? 



2. How you could tell whether a beef animal was fat or not? 



3. To give the indications of quality? 



4. How much a beef animal should weigh at 30 months old? 



5. To describe condition? 



6. What position the front legs should take, and why? 



7. How the head and 

 neck of the bull differ from 

 those of the cow? 



8. To describe the triple- 

 wedge form? 



9. The meaning of tem- 

 perament in dairy cattle? 



10. To give the most 

 important features of the 

 dairy cow score card? 



11. What kind of rib de- 

 velopment should be looked 

 for in the dairy cow? 



12. To describe the most 



. . . . , Fig. 119. The kind of cow one should not 



desirable form of udder r own. Photograph by the author. 



SOME INTERESTING THINGS TO DO 



13. Scoring your own or a neighbor's beef animals. 



14. Picking out the best individuals among cattle in a feed lot. 



15. Comparing the best and poorest dairy cows in the herd. Why 

 is one best and the other poorest? 



16. If you have a dairy herd at home, make a few group studies 

 of four animals in each. 



17. Organize a local beef or dairy cattle show. 



