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Dairy Cow Industry

Subject : industries
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1. The main points of a dairy cow and their perspective points in juding are...






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






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






4. Should only be used as a last resort for the treatment of ruminal tymphany.






5. Milking cows are usually milked ____ days and 'dried up' ___ days before the next lactation






6. Test for determination of BF% in milk.






7. Viral disorder that causes lesions indistinguishable from those of foot-and-mouth disease.






8. A fatal protozoan disease of cattle that destroys the red blood cells - causing anemia and death.






9. Caused by the heel fly.






10. Diarrhea.






11. Wingless - flattened insects.






12. Unulent fever in people.






13. Most important type trait in a dairy cow.






14. Established colleges of agriculture in each state.






15. The oldest breed of dairy cattle.






16. Agent which destroys worms in digestive tract.






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






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






19. Molds which develop on feed producing toxins.






20. Number of dairy cows in the United States.






21. State with the largest number of dairy cows.






22. _____ and _____ are two reportable external parasites common to dairy and beef cattle.






23. Also known as acetonemia.






24. Most common treatment for milk fever.






25. 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.






26. Physical conformation of an animal.






27. Period of non-lactation between two periods of lactation.






28. Also known as traumatic gastritis.






29. Rolling herd average for U.S. dairy herd.






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






31. Also called gas gangrene.






32. Common name for interdigital phlegmon.






33. Also known as Bovine genital Campylobacteriosis.






34. Hormone stimulates mammary duct development.






35. Caused by Mycobacterium bovis.






36. Parts blood must pass through the udder to produce milk.






37. Syndactylism.






38. Common name for papillomatous digital dermatitis.






39. Mechanism that permits alternating vacuum and atmospheric pressure to exit between the teat cup liner and shell.






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






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






42. Illawara.






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






44. Common name for syndactylism.






45. Year Babcock Test was developed.






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






47. 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.






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


49. Common name for infectious bovine keratonconjuctivitis.






50. Optinum daylight hours for maximum milk yield.