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Dairy Cow Industry
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1. The dairy breed with a golden yellow color to its milk.
Guernsey
Estrogen
Pulsator
Shipping Fever
2. Optinum daylight hours for maximum milk yield.
Claw
16
Lumpy Jaw
Mature Equivalent
3. Hormone stimulates milk production.
AI
Prolactin
Mule Foot
Babcock
4. Common name for syndactylism.
Mule Foot
Milk Fever
Rotary
Type Production Index
5. A fatal protozoan disease of cattle that destroys the red blood cells - causing anemia and death.
Lumpy Jaw
DHIA ( Dairy Herd Improvement Association)
300-500
Anaplasmosis
6. Stiff Lamb - Nutritional Muscular Dystrophy - Caused by a defficiency of Vitamin E or Selenium in dairy calves.
White Muscle Disease
101.5
Microscopic Agglutination Test
Bovine Viral Disease
7. CSS stands for.
Red
Roundworms
Type
Certified Semen Services
8. Age conversion formulas applied to milk production of young cows to compare their milk yield with more mature cows.
Mature Equivalent
Holstein
White Muscle Disease
Udders
9. Method of feeding cows aimed at finding their potential to secrete milk and used to prevent metabolic shortage in energy.
Brucellosis
Pinkeye
Red Water Disease
Challenge
10. Mechanism that permits alternating vacuum and atmospheric pressure to exit between the teat cup liner and shell.
Red Water Disease
Pulsator
Cattle Grubs
Liver Fluke
11. 'Barn-itch'.
Polled
Shipping Fever
DHI Records
Mange
12. The dairy breed with the highest fat percentage.
Shipping Fever
Barrel Heart Girth
AI
Jersey
13. An example of a trematode.
Liver Fluke
60
Lice
Anthrax
14. Common name for ruminal tymphany.
Bloat
Barrel Heart Girth
Energy
Heel Fly
15. Naturally hornless.
Lice
Milking Shorthorn
Polled
Challenge
16. Cows are usually rebred at ___ days after breeding
Ketosis
BST (Bovine Somatotropin)
Sickle
60
17. Most common treatment for milk fever.
Brucellosis
Rotary
Mule Foot
Calcium Glucanate
18. Common name for papillomatous digital dermatitis.
Hairy Foot Wart
Displaced Abomasum
Milk Fever
Polled
19. Intake protein that is broken down by microorganisms in the rumen.
Estrogen
Degraded Intake Protein
Polled
Grass Tetany
20. Agent which destroys worms in digestive tract.
Anthrometics
Mature Equivalent
Energy
9 -200 -000
21. Used to regularly evaluate where an individual cow stands in body condition relative to the ideals for her stage in lactation.
Challenge
Grass Tetany
Body Conditioning Score
Bloat
22. The dairy breed that is used mostly for milk and veal is _____
FCM (Fat Corrected Milk)
Holstein
Bloat
Type Production Index
23. 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.
Udders: 40 % Dairy Character: 20% Frame: 15% Feet and Legs: 15% Body Capacity: 10%
Microscopic Agglutination Test
DHIA ( Dairy Herd Improvement Association)
Wisconsin
24. Uses DCADS to minimize incidence of _______?
Milk Fever
101.5
Jersey
Hardware Disease
25. One of the most commonly diagnosed viruses in bovine abortion cases and easily prevented with vaccination and improved sanitation.
Freemartin
1890
Bovine Viral Disease
Grass Tetany
26. Also called gas gangrene.
Guernsey
Bloat
Prolactin
Malignant Edema
27. Common name for nematodes.
Pinkeye
Milk Fever
Roundworms
Microscopic Agglutination Test
28. 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.
Mad Cow Disease
Ketosis
DHI Records
Sarcoptic - Saroptic
29. Normal rectal temperature of a dairy cow.
101.5
Israel
Grass Tetany
Anthrometics
30. A chamber that connects the four teat cups to the milk line.
Claw
X Disease
Lumpy Jaw
16
31. An infertile female calf born co-twin to a bull.
CA - AZ - WA - CO
Babcock
Milking Shorthorn
Freemartin
32. Syndactylism.
Mule Foot
101.5
Bovine Viral Disease
Brucellosis
33. Viral disorder that causes lesions indistinguishable from those of foot-and-mouth disease.
Vesicular Stromatitis
Body Conditioning Score
Pulsator
Milk Urea Nitrogen
34. Caused by Mycobacterium bovis.
DHIA ( Dairy Herd Improvement Association)
Tuberculosis
Cattle Grubs
Energy
35. Is the nation with the highest producing dairy cows.
Lumpy Jaw
Udders: 40 % Dairy Character: 20% Frame: 15% Feet and Legs: 15% Body Capacity: 10%
Israel
Challenge
36. Also known as Bacillary hemoglobinuria.
Prolactin
Foot Rot
Wisconsin
Red Water Disease
37. Tendency of two or more traits to vary in the same direction or in opposite directions due to common forces or influences.
Body Conditioning Score
DHI Records
Claw
Correlation
38. Spores from this fatal disease can live in the soil for more than 60 years.
Epinephrine
67 -914
Anthrax
Johne's
39. Holstein Association uses ______________ as a method of ranking bulls on their overall performance.
Israel
Brucellosis
Type Production Index
16
40. _____ and _____ are two reportable external parasites common to dairy and beef cattle.
300-500
Sarcoptic - Saroptic
Mature Equivalent
Ketosis
41. Hormone stimulates an increase of up to 20% more milk with only 5% more feed.
Lice
Aveoli
Cattle Grubs
BST (Bovine Somatotropin)
42. Period of non-lactation between two periods of lactation.
DHI Records
Mule Foot
Sickle
Dry
43. Caused by the heel fly.
Cattle Grubs
Jersey
Liver Fluke
Oxytocin
44. Hormone stimulates mammary duct development.
300-500
CA - AZ - WA - CO
Estrogen
Mad Cow Disease
45. Another name for carousel type milk barn.
White Muscle Disease
Anaplasmosis
Rotary
Lumpy Jaw
46. Caused by a deficiency of Mg in the diet.
2 -180
Grass Tetany
Brown Swiss
Red Water Disease
47. State with the largest number of dairy cows.
Pulsator
Sarcoptic - Saroptic
9 -200 -000
Wisconsin
48. The circumference of the body just back of the shoulders. Used to estimate body weight.
Cattle Grubs
Vibriosis
Barrel Heart Girth
Sarcoptic - Saroptic
49. Also known as Bovine genital Campylobacteriosis.
9 -200 -000
Certified Semen Services
Vibriosis
BST (Bovine Somatotropin)
50. Also known as acetonemia.
Ketosis
Vesicular Stromatitis
Johne's
Bloat