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Dairy Cow Industry

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






2. Agent which destroys worms in digestive tract.






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






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






5. Another name for carousel type milk barn.






6. MUN is abbreviation for ___________?






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






8. 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.






9. Common name for syndactylism.






10. Common name for papillomatous digital dermatitis.






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






12. Year Babcock Test was developed.






13. Diarrhea.






14. Hormone stimulates mammary duct development.






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






16. 'Barn-itch'.






17. 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.






18. The oldest breed of dairy cattle.






19. Also known as Red Nose.






20. The Ayrshire breed is colored ____ and white.






21. Physical conformation of an animal.






22. State producing the most milk (total pounds).






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






24. Molds which develop on feed producing toxins.






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






26. Metabolic Disease characterized by accessive ketone body formation.






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






28. Parturient paresis.






29. CSS stands for.






30. Common name for infectious bovine keratonconjuctivitis.






31. An example of a trematode.






32. Adjustment of milk with different fat percentages to equivalent amounts on an energy basis.






33. Naturally hornless.






34. Most important type trait in a dairy cow.






35. Four of the leading states in milk production are ___ ___ __ __






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






37. Syndactylism.






38. Also called gas gangrene.






39. Caused by the heel fly.






40. Hormone counteracts milk letdown.






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






42. Also known as Bovine genital Campylobacteriosis.






43. Cows are usually rebred at ___ days after breeding






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






45. Common name for interdigital phlegmon.






46. Milk is actually secreted in grape-like structures called ____






47. Cause of cattle grubs.






48. Hormone stimulates milk production.






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






50. Uses DCADS to minimize incidence of _______?