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Dairy Cow Industry
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1. Viral disorder that causes lesions indistinguishable from those of foot-and-mouth disease.
Predicting Transmitting Ability Trait
Hardware Disease
Wisconsin
Vesicular Stromatitis
2. Hormone stimulates mammary duct development.
California
Lumpy Jaw
Guernsey
Estrogen
3. Wingless - flattened insects.
Lice
Jersey
Hardware Disease
Energy
4. Count of ____ cells helps determine inflammation of the mammary gland
Mature Equivalent
Somatic
Challenge
Trocar
5. Period of non-lactation between two periods of lactation.
Dry
Cryptosporidiosis
Roundworms
Estrogen
6. Uses DCADS to minimize incidence of _______?
Milk Fever
Jersey
Oxytocin
Anthrometics
7. Mechanism that permits alternating vacuum and atmospheric pressure to exit between the teat cup liner and shell.
Pulsator
Displaced Abomasum
Pinkeye
Degraded Intake Protein
8. 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.
DHIA ( Dairy Herd Improvement Association)
Rotary
67 -914
Epinephrine
9. Most important type trait in a dairy cow.
Cattle Grubs
Land-Grant Act
Udders
Sickle
10. Common name for nematodes.
Type Production Index
Rotary
2 -180
Roundworms
11. Agent which destroys worms in digestive tract.
Hairy Foot Wart
AI
Trocar
Anthrometics
12. Parts blood must pass through the udder to produce milk.
Milk Fever
Mule Foot
Mange
300-500
13. Method of feeding cows aimed at finding their potential to secrete milk and used to prevent metabolic shortage in energy.
Bovine Herpes Infectious Virus
Challenge
Hairy Foot Wart
DCUS (Dairy Cow Uniform Scorecard)
14. 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.
Shipping Fever
Milk Urea Nitrogen
Estrogen
Sickle
15. Also known as Bacillary hemoglobinuria.
Pulsator
Calcium Glucanate
Red Water Disease
Jersey
16. Normal rectal temperature of a dairy cow.
2 -180
Correlation
101.5
Epinephrine
17. The common name for Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE).
Mad Cow Disease
16
California
Lumpy Jaw
18. One of the most commonly diagnosed viruses in bovine abortion cases and easily prevented with vaccination and improved sanitation.
Bovine Viral Disease
CA - AZ - WA - CO
Cryptosporidiosis
Mad Cow Disease
19. The dairy breed that is used mostly for milk and veal is _____
Dry
Anaplasmosis
Heel Fly
Holstein
20. Naturally hornless.
Polled
Udders: 40 % Dairy Character: 20% Frame: 15% Feet and Legs: 15% Body Capacity: 10%
Rotary
Microscopic Agglutination Test
21. Caused by Actinomy bovis.
Freemartin
Displaced Abomasum
Lumpy Jaw
Microscopic Agglutination Test
22. Adjustment of milk with different fat percentages to equivalent amounts on an energy basis.
Predicting Transmitting Ability Trait
FCM (Fat Corrected Milk)
Certified Semen Services
305 - 60
23. Common name for syndactylism.
Tuberculosis
Mule Foot
Mature Equivalent
Jersey
24. Disease characterized by pneumonia or septicemia. The highest incidence occurs in animals subjected to stress.
Displaced Abomasum
Shipping Fever
Grass Tetany
Sickle
25. Holstein Association uses ______________ as a method of ranking bulls on their overall performance.
Type Production Index
Bovine Viral Disease
Milking Shorthorn
Johne's
26. Four of the leading states in milk production are ___ ___ __ __
Shipping Fever
CA - AZ - WA - CO
Pinkeye
X Disease
27. Most common limiting nutrient for high milk yield.
Mature Equivalent
Guernsey
Energy
Aveoli
28. State producing the most milk (total pounds).
Anthrometics
60
California
Bovine Herpes Infectious Virus
29. Common name for papillomatous digital dermatitis.
Hairy Foot Wart
Red
16
Anthrometics
30. Hormone Stimulates milk letdown.
Trocar
Oxytocin
Prolactin
16
31. Metabolic Disease characterized by accessive ketone body formation.
Red Water Disease
Prolactin
Ketosis
X Disease
32. 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.
Mule Foot
Red
DHI Records
FCM (Fat Corrected Milk)
33. Molds which develop on feed producing toxins.
Scours
9 -200 -000
Type Production Index
Myotoxins
34. The mammary system of a cow is divided into ___ independent parts.
2 -180
Vesicular Stromatitis
4
Holstein
35. Caused by Mycobacterium bovis.
16
Microscopic Agglutination Test
Tuberculosis
Lice
36. Physical conformation of an animal.
Ketosis
Lice
Type
Jersey
37. The world record/ cow/ year for milk yield (in pounds).
300-500
67 -914
Guernsey
Shipping Fever
38. Casting is used as a temporary treatment of this disorder.
Oxytocin
Mad Cow Disease
Displaced Abomasum
Wisconsin
39. The dairy breed with a golden yellow color to its milk.
Guernsey
Pinkeye
CA - AZ - WA - CO
Barrel Heart Girth
40. Milking cows are usually milked ____ days and 'dried up' ___ days before the next lactation
305 - 60
Milk Urea Nitrogen
Trocar
Malignant Edema
41. Common name for ruminal tymphany.
Bloat
4
DHI Records
Mule Foot
42. The Ayrshire breed is colored ____ and white.
Ketosis
White Muscle Disease
Calcium Glucanate
Red
43. MUN is abbreviation for ___________?
Type
Aveoli
1890
Milk Urea Nitrogen
44. Cows are usually rebred at ___ days after breeding
Liver Fluke
60
Babcock
Roundworms
45. Milk is actually secreted in grape-like structures called ____
Red Water Disease
Polled
Aveoli
Mule Foot
46. Tendency of two or more traits to vary in the same direction or in opposite directions due to common forces or influences.
Milking Shorthorn
Polled
Bloat
Correlation
47. The main points of a dairy cow and their perspective points in juding are...
Sickle
Red
X Disease
Udders: 40 % Dairy Character: 20% Frame: 15% Feet and Legs: 15% Body Capacity: 10%
48. Most commonly used test for diagnosis of Leptospirosis in cattle.
Lice
Brown Swiss
Microscopic Agglutination Test
Milking Shorthorn
49. Also known as acetonemia.
Lice
Malignant Edema
Ketosis
Israel
50. Cause of cattle grubs.
Cryptosporidiosis
Heel Fly
California
Aveoli