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Title: Week 23 study guide answers: top tips for a safe farm
As part of last weeks’ study guide (week 23 –top tips for a safe farm), author Michelle Herbert asked students a number questions in the student activities. Here she details the answers.
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Week 23 study guide answers: top tips for a safe farm
As part of last weeks’ study guide (week 23 –top tips for a safe farm), author Michelle Herbert asked students a number questions in the student activities. Here she details the answers.
Risk assessment activity
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.
Student activity: Chemicals
Match the following safety hazards with the relevant statements
Livestock questions and answers
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.
Student activity: livestock
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
Student activity: key terms
Explain the meaning of the following terms
Risk assessment activity
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.
Student activity: Chemicals
Match the following safety hazards with the relevant statements
Livestock questions and answers
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.
Student activity: livestock
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
Speaking to agricultural science teachers at Tullamore Farm last Thursday during Agri Aware's farm walk and talk, we learned that numbers taking the subject are dwindling.
Some 350 agricultural science students from 12 schools travelled to Tullamore Farm last Thursday 29 February as part of Agri Aware’s Farm Walk and Talk series.
The guide includes practical advice which the Department outlines aims to reduce the risk and impacts of pesticide use on human health and the environment.
From 20 November, anyone driving a quad bike for work must wear a helmet and complete a QQI, or standard equivalent, training course.
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