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Dairy Cow Industry

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1. Metabolic Disease characterized by accessive ketone body formation.






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






3. Uses DCADS to minimize incidence of _______?






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






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






6. Most common treatment for milk fever.






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






8. Most common limiting nutrient for high milk yield.






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






10. 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.






11. 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.






12. Agent which destroys worms in digestive tract.






13. 'Barn-itch'.






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






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






16. A chamber that connects the four teat cups to the milk line.






17. Another name for carousel type milk barn.






18. The Ayrshire breed is colored ____ and white.






19. Hormone stimulates milk production.






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






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






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






23. Wingless - flattened insects.






24. Recommended method for dairy cattle.






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






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






27. Common name for syndactylism.






28. Syndactylism.






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






30. Physical conformation of an animal.






31. Number of dairy cows in the United States.






32. Common name for papillomatous digital dermatitis.






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






34. Common name for infectious bovine keratonconjuctivitis.






35. Casting is used as a temporary treatment of this disorder.






36. Hormone stimulates mammary duct development.






37. Common name for nematodes.






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






39. Test for determination of BF% in milk.






40. Unulent fever in people.






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

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






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






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






45. Also known as traumatic gastritis.






46. PTAT






47. Hormone Stimulates milk letdown.






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






49. Also called gas gangrene.






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