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Dairy Cow Industry

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






2. MUN is abbreviation for ___________?






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






4. The oldest breed of dairy cattle.






5. Unulent fever in people.






6. Common name for infectious bovine keratonconjuctivitis.






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






8. Common name for nematodes.






9. Normal rectal temperature of a dairy cow.






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






11. Caused by Actinomy bovis.






12. Recommended method for dairy cattle.






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






14. Most common limiting nutrient for high milk yield.






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






16. Common name for interdigital phlegmon.






17. Caused by Mycobacterium bovis.






18. Uses DCADS to minimize incidence of _______?






19. Cause of cattle grubs.






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






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






22. Hormone Stimulates milk letdown.






23. Also called gas gangrene.






24. Most common treatment for milk fever.






25. Caused by the heel fly.






26. Also known as traumatic gastritis.






27. Most important type trait in a dairy cow.






28. Hormone stimulates milk production.






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






30. Illawara.






31. Cows are usually rebred at ___ days after breeding






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






33. Diarrhea.






34. Metabolic Disease characterized by accessive ketone body formation.






35. Also known as Bacillary hemoglobinuria.






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






37. Test for determination of BF% in milk.






38. Parturient paresis.






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






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






41. Count of ____ cells helps determine inflammation of the mammary gland






42. 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.






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






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






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






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






47. The Ayrshire breed is colored ____ and white.






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






49. Agent which destroys worms in digestive tract.






50. Common name for papillomatous digital dermatitis.