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Dairy Cow Industry

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1. Wingless - flattened insects.






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






3. The Ayrshire breed is colored ____ and white.






4. A zoonotic disorder affecting as many as 90% of dairy farms.






5. 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.






6. Naturally hornless.






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






8. Optinum daylight hours for maximum milk yield.






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






10. Parturient paresis.






11. Diarrhea.






12. Metabolic Disease characterized by accessive ketone body formation.






13. 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.






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






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






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






17. Cows are usually rebred at ___ days after breeding






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






19. MUN is abbreviation for ___________?






20. Number of dairy cows in the United States.






21. Test for determination of BF% in milk.






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






23. The oldest breed of dairy cattle.






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






25. PTAT






26. Recommended method for dairy cattle.






27. Molds which develop on feed producing toxins.






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






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






30. Also known as Red Nose.






31. Caused by the heel fly.






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






33. Established colleges of agriculture in each state.






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






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






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






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






38. Agent which destroys worms in digestive tract.






39. Hormone stimulates mammary duct development.






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






41. Most common limiting nutrient for high milk yield.






42. Also known as acetonemia.






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






44. Caused by Actinomy bovis.






45. Also known as traumatic gastritis.






46. Common name for infectious bovine keratonconjuctivitis.






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






48. Unulent fever in people.






49. Most important type trait in a dairy cow.






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







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