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Dairy Cow Industry
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1. Uses DCADS to minimize incidence of _______?
Guernsey
Milk Fever
Grass Tetany
Scours
2. The oldest breed of dairy cattle.
Johne's
Somatic
Brown Swiss
Predicting Transmitting Ability Trait
3. The dairy breed with a golden yellow color to its milk.
Sarcoptic - Saroptic
9 -200 -000
Guernsey
Displaced Abomasum
4. The dairy breed with the highest fat percentage.
Milk Urea Nitrogen
9 -200 -000
Dry
Jersey
5. Physical conformation of an animal.
Degraded Intake Protein
Type
Myotoxins
FCM (Fat Corrected Milk)
6. Milking cows are usually milked ____ days and 'dried up' ___ days before the next lactation
305 - 60
Aveoli
Type Production Index
DHI Records
7. Four of the leading states in milk production are ___ ___ __ __
Oxytocin
Pinkeye
CA - AZ - WA - CO
Hardware Disease
8. Milk is actually secreted in grape-like structures called ____
305 - 60
Epinephrine
Goiter
Aveoli
9. A fatal protozoan disease of cattle that destroys the red blood cells - causing anemia and death.
Anaplasmosis
DCUS (Dairy Cow Uniform Scorecard)
Hardware Disease
Foot Rot
10. Illawara.
AI
Israel
Milking Shorthorn
Ketosis
11. Common name for syndactylism.
Body Conditioning Score
Pinkeye
Barrel Heart Girth
Mule Foot
12. Also known as Red Nose.
Dry
Milk Urea Nitrogen
16
Bovine Herpes Infectious Virus
13. Caused by a deficiency of Mg in the diet.
Correlation
Grass Tetany
X Disease
DHIA ( Dairy Herd Improvement Association)
14. Molds which develop on feed producing toxins.
Grass Tetany
Milk Urea Nitrogen
Myotoxins
9 -200 -000
15. Mechanism that permits alternating vacuum and atmospheric pressure to exit between the teat cup liner and shell.
Certified Semen Services
Pulsator
Mature Equivalent
Roundworms
16. Cows are usually rebred at ___ days after breeding
FCM (Fat Corrected Milk)
Ketosis
Guernsey
60
17. Metabolic Disease characterized by accessive ketone body formation.
BST (Bovine Somatotropin)
X Disease
Udders: 40 % Dairy Character: 20% Frame: 15% Feet and Legs: 15% Body Capacity: 10%
Ketosis
18. Hormone stimulates mammary duct development.
Aveoli
Jersey
67 -914
Estrogen
19. The Ayrshire breed is colored ____ and white.
Red
Cryptosporidiosis
Grass Tetany
Cattle Grubs
20. An example of a trematode.
White Muscle Disease
FCM (Fat Corrected Milk)
Liver Fluke
Wisconsin
21. Caused by Mycobacterium bovis.
Udders: 40 % Dairy Character: 20% Frame: 15% Feet and Legs: 15% Body Capacity: 10%
Mange
Tuberculosis
Sarcoptic - Saroptic
22. Parts blood must pass through the udder to produce milk.
Body Conditioning Score
300-500
Polled
Udders
23. Agent which destroys worms in digestive tract.
Anthrometics
CA - AZ - WA - CO
DHI Records
9 -200 -000
24. A zoonotic disorder affecting as many as 90% of dairy farms.
Predicting Transmitting Ability Trait
Vesicular Stromatitis
Cryptosporidiosis
Babcock
25. Test for determination of BF% in milk.
Mature Equivalent
X Disease
Calcium Glucanate
Babcock
26. Casting is used as a temporary treatment of this disorder.
Anaplasmosis
Displaced Abomasum
Hardware Disease
Johne's
27. Adjustment of milk with different fat percentages to equivalent amounts on an energy basis.
Grass Tetany
Correlation
Udders: 40 % Dairy Character: 20% Frame: 15% Feet and Legs: 15% Body Capacity: 10%
FCM (Fat Corrected Milk)
28. Used to regularly evaluate where an individual cow stands in body condition relative to the ideals for her stage in lactation.
Shipping Fever
Body Conditioning Score
Pinkeye
Vibriosis
29. Normal rectal temperature of a dairy cow.
Jersey
Sickle
101.5
Oxytocin
30. 'Barn-itch'.
67 -914
Hairy Foot Wart
Lice
Mange
31. Common name for papillomatous digital dermatitis.
60
Pulsator
Hairy Foot Wart
Red
32. 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.
Israel
Sickle
4
Cattle Grubs
33. PTAT
Sarcoptic - Saroptic
White Muscle Disease
Predicting Transmitting Ability Trait
Dry
34. Most important type trait in a dairy cow.
Udders
Microscopic Agglutination Test
X Disease
Jersey
35. The mammary system of a cow is divided into ___ independent parts.
4
Milk Fever
X Disease
Milking Shorthorn
36. Is the nation with the highest producing dairy cows.
Israel
Displaced Abomasum
Tuberculosis
Body Conditioning Score
37. Also known as Bacillary hemoglobinuria.
Red Water Disease
Milk Fever
Vibriosis
DHIA ( Dairy Herd Improvement Association)
38. Intake protein that is broken down by microorganisms in the rumen.
16
Degraded Intake Protein
Shipping Fever
Land-Grant Act
39. Period of non-lactation between two periods of lactation.
Guernsey
Dry
Milk Fever
Anthrax
40. Rolling herd average for U.S. dairy herd.
Milking Shorthorn
Johne's
2 -180
Oxytocin
41. A chamber that connects the four teat cups to the milk line.
White Muscle Disease
Correlation
Liver Fluke
Claw
42. Holstein Association uses ______________ as a method of ranking bulls on their overall performance.
Bovine Herpes Infectious Virus
California
Sarcoptic - Saroptic
Type Production Index
43. The ____ is used by all dairy cattle breed associations as the standard for judging and classifying cattle
DCUS (Dairy Cow Uniform Scorecard)
Anaplasmosis
2 -180
Calcium Glucanate
44. Hormone stimulates an increase of up to 20% more milk with only 5% more feed.
BST (Bovine Somatotropin)
300-500
Myotoxins
Israel
45. Syndactylism.
Oxytocin
Wisconsin
Mule Foot
Hardware Disease
46. Should only be used as a last resort for the treatment of ruminal tymphany.
Trocar
Grass Tetany
Dry
Babcock
47. Viral disorder that causes lesions indistinguishable from those of foot-and-mouth disease.
Vesicular Stromatitis
Estrogen
Shipping Fever
Anthrax
48. Also known as Bovine genital Campylobacteriosis.
4
Trocar
9 -200 -000
Vibriosis
49. Hormone Stimulates milk letdown.
Foot Rot
Udders: 40 % Dairy Character: 20% Frame: 15% Feet and Legs: 15% Body Capacity: 10%
Oxytocin
Calcium Glucanate
50. Hormone stimulates milk production.
Cattle Grubs
Lumpy Jaw
Prolactin
Myotoxins