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Dairy Cow Industry

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1. Test for determination of BF% in milk.






2. The oldest breed of dairy cattle.






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






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






5. Also called gas gangrene.






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






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






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






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






10. Number of dairy cows in the United States.






11. Common name for syndactylism.






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






13. Parturient paresis.






14. State with the largest number of dairy cows.






15. 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.






16. Hormone stimulates mammary duct development.






17. Syndactylism.






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






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






20. Also known as Red Nose.






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






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

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23. Unulent fever in people.






24. An example of a trematode.






25. Hormone counteracts milk letdown.






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






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






28. Metabolic Disease characterized by accessive ketone body formation.






29. Diarrhea.






30. Optinum daylight hours for maximum milk yield.






31. Caused by the heel fly.






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






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






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






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






36. Agent which destroys worms in digestive tract.






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






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






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






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






41. Physical conformation of an animal.






42. Hormone Stimulates milk letdown.






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






44. Most common treatment for milk fever.






45. Also known as traumatic gastritis.






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






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






48. Also known as Bovine genital Campylobacteriosis.






49. Year Babcock Test was developed.






50. Common name for nematodes.