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Dairy Cow Industry
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1. Parts blood must pass through the udder to produce milk.
300-500
Mange
Cryptosporidiosis
Jersey
2. A fatal protozoan disease of cattle that destroys the red blood cells - causing anemia and death.
60
Milk Fever
Cryptosporidiosis
Anaplasmosis
3. The world record/ cow/ year for milk yield (in pounds).
Udders
67 -914
Holstein
Degraded Intake Protein
4. Hormone Stimulates milk letdown.
Milk Fever
Oxytocin
Mule Foot
Malignant Edema
5. 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.
Sickle
Somatic
Estrogen
101.5
6. Count of ____ cells helps determine inflammation of the mammary gland
Roundworms
1890
Prolactin
Somatic
7. Common name for ruminal tymphany.
Energy
Bloat
67 -914
Anthrax
8. State with the largest number of dairy cows.
9 -200 -000
Calcium Glucanate
Energy
Wisconsin
9. Cause of cattle grubs.
Heel Fly
Holstein
Energy
Mule Foot
10. Illawara.
DCUS (Dairy Cow Uniform Scorecard)
Milking Shorthorn
Aveoli
Milk Fever
11. An infertile female calf born co-twin to a bull.
Bovine Herpes Infectious Virus
Microscopic Agglutination Test
Tuberculosis
Freemartin
12. Period of non-lactation between two periods of lactation.
Dry
Energy
Trocar
Estrogen
13. Naturally hornless.
Mature Equivalent
Anthrometics
Milking Shorthorn
Polled
14. Agent which destroys worms in digestive tract.
Anthrometics
Challenge
Mule Foot
Claw
15. An example of a trematode.
Mule Foot
Heel Fly
Liver Fluke
Sarcoptic - Saroptic
16. Most common treatment for milk fever.
Polled
Calcium Glucanate
Freemartin
Scours
17. Milking cows are usually milked ____ days and 'dried up' ___ days before the next lactation
305 - 60
Milk Fever
Holstein
DHIA ( Dairy Herd Improvement Association)
18. Common name for nematodes.
Challenge
Roundworms
Brown Swiss
Cryptosporidiosis
19. Hormone stimulates mammary duct development.
Ketosis
Estrogen
Milk Fever
Degraded Intake Protein
20. Mechanism that permits alternating vacuum and atmospheric pressure to exit between the teat cup liner and shell.
Cryptosporidiosis
16
Pulsator
2 -180
21. Also known as acetonemia.
Milk Urea Nitrogen
Bovine Herpes Infectious Virus
Displaced Abomasum
Ketosis
22. Caused by the heel fly.
X Disease
Vibriosis
Cattle Grubs
Mule Foot
23. 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.
Aveoli
DHI Records
Cryptosporidiosis
Energy
24. Uses DCADS to minimize incidence of _______?
FCM (Fat Corrected Milk)
Cryptosporidiosis
Milk Fever
Pulsator
25. Unulent fever in people.
Goiter
Brown Swiss
Brucellosis
Anthrax
26. The Ayrshire breed is colored ____ and white.
Mange
Red
Rotary
Microscopic Agglutination Test
27. Caused by a deficiency of Mg in the diet.
DHIA ( Dairy Herd Improvement Association)
Epinephrine
Grass Tetany
Type
28. Should only be used as a last resort for the treatment of ruminal tymphany.
Red
Trocar
Mad Cow Disease
Displaced Abomasum
29. Normal rectal temperature of a dairy cow.
Johne's
101.5
Mature Equivalent
Displaced Abomasum
30. Also known as traumatic gastritis.
Sarcoptic - Saroptic
Israel
Udders: 40 % Dairy Character: 20% Frame: 15% Feet and Legs: 15% Body Capacity: 10%
Hardware Disease
31. _____ and _____ are two reportable external parasites common to dairy and beef cattle.
Holstein
Sarcoptic - Saroptic
Brown Swiss
2 -180
32. Intake protein that is broken down by microorganisms in the rumen.
Polled
Milking Shorthorn
Degraded Intake Protein
Predicting Transmitting Ability Trait
33. Spores from this fatal disease can live in the soil for more than 60 years.
Dry
Grass Tetany
Udders: 40 % Dairy Character: 20% Frame: 15% Feet and Legs: 15% Body Capacity: 10%
Anthrax
34. Also called gas gangrene.
Malignant Edema
Udders
Anaplasmosis
Polled
35. A chamber that connects the four teat cups to the milk line.
Predicting Transmitting Ability Trait
Claw
Milk Fever
Lumpy Jaw
36. Method of feeding cows aimed at finding their potential to secrete milk and used to prevent metabolic shortage in energy.
Guernsey
Challenge
Ketosis
DCUS (Dairy Cow Uniform Scorecard)
37. 'Barn-itch'.
Degraded Intake Protein
Calcium Glucanate
Milking Shorthorn
Mange
38. The ____ is used by all dairy cattle breed associations as the standard for judging and classifying cattle
300-500
AI
Predicting Transmitting Ability Trait
DCUS (Dairy Cow Uniform Scorecard)
39. Recommended method for dairy cattle.
Certified Semen Services
Milking Shorthorn
Heel Fly
AI
40. Holstein Association uses ______________ as a method of ranking bulls on their overall performance.
Type Production Index
305 - 60
Sickle
Mule Foot
41. Stiff Lamb - Nutritional Muscular Dystrophy - Caused by a defficiency of Vitamin E or Selenium in dairy calves.
White Muscle Disease
Mule Foot
Scours
Udders: 40 % Dairy Character: 20% Frame: 15% Feet and Legs: 15% Body Capacity: 10%
42. CSS stands for.
Shipping Fever
Cryptosporidiosis
Mad Cow Disease
Certified Semen Services
43. Hormone counteracts milk letdown.
Epinephrine
2 -180
Liver Fluke
60
44. MUN is abbreviation for ___________?
Certified Semen Services
Bloat
Tuberculosis
Milk Urea Nitrogen
45. Rolling herd average for U.S. dairy herd.
Land-Grant Act
Foot Rot
Mule Foot
2 -180
46. Wingless - flattened insects.
Lice
1890
DHI Records
BST (Bovine Somatotropin)
47. PTAT
Predicting Transmitting Ability Trait
Degraded Intake Protein
White Muscle Disease
Correlation
48. Also known as Bacillary hemoglobinuria.
Trocar
Hairy Foot Wart
X Disease
Red Water Disease
49. Common name for papillomatous digital dermatitis.
Wisconsin
Ketosis
Hairy Foot Wart
Red Water Disease
50. Also known as hyperkeratosis.
Anaplasmosis
X Disease
67 -914
Tuberculosis