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Dairy Cow Industry

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






2. Hormone counteracts milk letdown.






3. Also known as Red Nose.






4. Standardization of lactation records to the level of yield that would have been attained by each cow if she had been a mature cow and calved in the month of the year of highest calving frequency for her breed.






5. Also known as Bovine genital Campylobacteriosis.






6. Naturally hornless.






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






8. Common name for ruminal tymphany.






9. Also called gas gangrene.






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

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






12. The world record/ cow/ year for milk yield (in pounds).






13. Unulent fever in people.






14. Wingless - flattened insects.






15. Is the nation with the highest producing dairy cows.






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






17. Hormone Stimulates milk letdown.






18. Parturient paresis.






19. Caused by the heel fly.






20. Test for determination of BF% in milk.






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






22. Metabolic Disease characterized by accessive ketone body formation.






23. Recommended method for dairy cattle.






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






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






26. 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.






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






28. PTAT






29. One of the most commonly diagnosed viruses in bovine abortion cases and easily prevented with vaccination and improved sanitation.






30. Year Babcock Test was developed.






31. An example of a trematode.






32. Method of feeding cows aimed at finding their potential to secrete milk and used to prevent metabolic shortage in energy.






33. Another name for carousel type milk barn.






34. Also known as traumatic gastritis.






35. Cows are usually rebred at ___ days after breeding






36. Hormone stimulates mammary duct development.






37. The Ayrshire breed is colored ____ and white.






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






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






40. Spores from this fatal disease can live in the soil for more than 60 years.






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






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






43. Caused by Actinomy bovis.






44. Common name for syndactylism.






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






46. Common name for infectious bovine keratonconjuctivitis.






47. Hormone stimulates milk production.






48. Optinum daylight hours for maximum milk yield.






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






50. Age conversion formulas applied to milk production of young cows to compare their milk yield with more mature cows.