Name this process?
Answer: Hedge cutting.
Whis is this carried out on the farm?
Answer: To keep hedgerows tidy and neat.
What are the risks associated with it?
Answer: Need to watch overhead powerlines, debris flying.
Name this process?
Answer: Emptying silage trailer.
Why is this carried out on the farm?
Answer: To make pit silage.
What are the risks associated with it?
Answer: Trailer could overturn.
Name this process?
Answer: Changing the electric fence.
Why is this carried out on the farm?
Answer: Strip grazing
What are the risks associated with it?
Answer: Shock from the electric fence
Name this process?
Answer: Self propelled forage harvester picking up grass.
Why is this carried out on the farm?
Answer: To collect grass to make pit silage.
What are the risks associated?
Answer: If loose clothing was worn could get caught in the machine, overhead powerlines.
Name this process?
Answer: Spreading slurry with a splash plate.
Why is this carried out on the farm?
Answer: To spread slurry to help the grass grow.
What are the risks associated with it?
Answer: Runoff into rivers causing eutrophication, harmful gases released during agitation .
Name this process?
Answer: Loading bales of straw.
Why is this carried out on the farm?
Answer: For bedding and feeding of cattle during the winter.
What are the risks associated with it?
Answer: Overhead head powerlines, overturning bales.
Match the following safety hazards with the relevant statements
1. What is the number of deaths caused as a result of a bull?
Answer: Seven.
2. What is the % of deaths as a result of a horse?
Answer: 8%.
3. A cow has what type of digestive system?
Answer: Ruminant animal.
4. Distinguish between a bull and a bullock?
Answer: A bullock is a castrated male.
5. What is the advantage of having a bull on the farm?
Answer: Heat detection and can also be used for mopping up.
6. What is the BCS of a heifer at mating?
Answer: 2.9
7. What is meant by the term BCS?
Answer: Ratio of lean meat to fat of an animal.
8. What piece of equipment is essential when handling live animals?
Answer: Crush.
9. What is essential to use when a bull is on the farm?
Answer: Ring on nose of bull, stick, safe exit at all times.
10. What is meant by the term reproductive efficiency?
Answer: Number of animals weaned per 100 cows served.
Watch the video and answer the following questions
Questions:
1. What type of farm does Tommy Moynihan have?
Answer: Dairy farm.
2. What is the main breed shown in the video?
Answer: Friesian.
3. What are the main characteristics of this breed?
Answer: High milk yield, large size, black and white in colour.
4. What is connected to the tractor in the video?
Answer: Vacuum tank.
5. What is the length of the lactation period of the cow?
Answer: 305 days.
6. What is the length and duration of oestrus of a cow?
Answer: 21 days for 18 hours.
7. What is the difference between FYM and slurry?
FYM: solid, more organic matter, spread using a muck spreader.
Slurry: liquid, less organic matter, spread using a vacuum tank
Explain the meaning of the following terms