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Dairy Cow Industry

Subject : industries
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1. Syndactylism.






2. Also known as Bovine genital Campylobacteriosis.






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






4. One of the most commonly diagnosed viruses in bovine abortion cases and easily prevented with vaccination and improved sanitation.






5. 'Barn-itch'.






6. Established colleges of agriculture in each state.






7. Molds which develop on feed producing toxins.






8. PTAT






9. MUN is abbreviation for ___________?






10. State with the largest number of dairy cows.






11. Also known as traumatic gastritis.






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






13. 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.






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






15. Common name for ruminal tymphany.






16. Diarrhea.






17. Holstein Association uses ______________ as a method of ranking bulls on their overall performance.






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






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






20. Another name for carousel type milk barn.






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






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






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






24. The dairy breed with the highest fat percentage.






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






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






27. Hormone stimulates milk production.






28. Normal rectal temperature of a dairy cow.






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






30. 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.






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






32. Count of ____ cells helps determine inflammation of the mammary gland






33. An example of a trematode.






34. The Ayrshire breed is colored ____ and white.






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






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






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






38. Common name for papillomatous digital dermatitis.






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






40. Also called gas gangrene.






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






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






43. Common name for nematodes.






44. Rolling herd average for U.S. dairy herd.






45. Also known as Red Nose.






46. The dairy breed with a golden yellow color to its milk.






47. Most common limiting nutrient for high milk yield.






48. Most common treatment for milk fever.






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






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