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Dairy Cow Industry

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1. Also known as Red Nose.






2. An association which dairy farmers join to participate in their record-keeping and management plans and is operated jointly by the USDA and state colleges of agriculture and land-grant universities.






3. The Ayrshire breed is colored ____ and white.






4. Caused by Mycobacterium bovis.






5. A zoonotic disorder affecting as many as 90% of dairy farms.






6. Hormone stimulates milk production.






7. An example of a trematode.






8. Common name for papillomatous digital dermatitis.






9. The dairy breed with a golden yellow color to its milk.






10. Cause of cattle grubs.






11. Describes an animal having a crooked hock - which causes the lower part of the leg to be bent forward out of a normal perpendicular straight line.






12. Also known as Bacillary hemoglobinuria.






13. Parturient paresis.






14. Most important type trait in a dairy cow.






15. Tendency of two or more traits to vary in the same direction or in opposite directions due to common forces or influences.






16. Also known as hyperkeratosis.






17. The mammary system of a cow is divided into ___ independent parts.






18. Agent which destroys worms in digestive tract.






19. 'Barn-itch'.






20. Caused by the heel fly.






21. A chamber that connects the four teat cups to the milk line.






22. Caused by a deficiency of iodine in the diet.






23. Also known as acetonemia.






24. Intake protein that is broken down by microorganisms in the rumen.






25. Most common treatment for milk fever.






26. Disease causing chronic diarrhea - weight loss resulting from infection with the bacterium Mycobacterium paratuberculosis.

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27. Casting is used as a temporary treatment of this disorder.






28. The ____ is used by all dairy cattle breed associations as the standard for judging and classifying cattle






29. Used to regularly evaluate where an individual cow stands in body condition relative to the ideals for her stage in lactation.






30. An infertile female calf born co-twin to a bull.






31. Year Babcock Test was developed.






32. The circumference of the body just back of the shoulders. Used to estimate body weight.






33. Disease characterized by pneumonia or septicemia. The highest incidence occurs in animals subjected to stress.






34. The dairy breed that is used mostly for milk and veal is _____






35. Holstein Association uses ______________ as a method of ranking bulls on their overall performance.






36. The main points of a dairy cow and their perspective points in juding are...






37. Number of dairy cows in the United States.






38. Caused by a deficiency of Mg in the diet.






39. Syndactylism.






40. State with the largest number of dairy cows.






41. Wingless - flattened insects.






42. Common name for syndactylism.






43. Also called gas gangrene.






44. Hormone stimulates an increase of up to 20% more milk with only 5% more feed.






45. Stiff Lamb - Nutritional Muscular Dystrophy - Caused by a defficiency of Vitamin E or Selenium in dairy calves.






46. The common name for Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE).






47. Common name for ruminal tymphany.






48. Uses DCADS to minimize incidence of _______?






49. Hormone Stimulates milk letdown.






50. Most commonly used test for diagnosis of Leptospirosis in cattle.