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Dairy Cow Industry
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1. Also called gas gangrene.
DHI Records
Malignant Edema
Bloat
9 -200 -000
2. Milk is actually secreted in grape-like structures called ____
Challenge
Aveoli
Cryptosporidiosis
DHIA ( Dairy Herd Improvement Association)
3. Rolling herd average for U.S. dairy herd.
Polled
Aveoli
Milk Urea Nitrogen
2 -180
4. The dairy breed with the highest fat percentage.
Jersey
Udders: 40 % Dairy Character: 20% Frame: 15% Feet and Legs: 15% Body Capacity: 10%
Milking Shorthorn
X Disease
5. Caused by a deficiency of iodine in the diet.
Prolactin
Goiter
Udders: 40 % Dairy Character: 20% Frame: 15% Feet and Legs: 15% Body Capacity: 10%
Cryptosporidiosis
6. A fatal protozoan disease of cattle that destroys the red blood cells - causing anemia and death.
DHI Records
Land-Grant Act
Anaplasmosis
Lumpy Jaw
7. Year Babcock Test was developed.
Certified Semen Services
Displaced Abomasum
Cattle Grubs
1890
8. Stiff Lamb - Nutritional Muscular Dystrophy - Caused by a defficiency of Vitamin E or Selenium in dairy calves.
Goiter
White Muscle Disease
Wisconsin
Anaplasmosis
9. Common name for papillomatous digital dermatitis.
Oxytocin
Polled
Displaced Abomasum
Hairy Foot Wart
10. Is the nation with the highest producing dairy cows.
Udders: 40 % Dairy Character: 20% Frame: 15% Feet and Legs: 15% Body Capacity: 10%
Pulsator
Land-Grant Act
Israel
11. A zoonotic disorder affecting as many as 90% of dairy farms.
Milk Fever
X Disease
60
Cryptosporidiosis
12. Caused by a deficiency of Mg in the diet.
DCUS (Dairy Cow Uniform Scorecard)
Correlation
Shipping Fever
Grass Tetany
13. Viral disorder that causes lesions indistinguishable from those of foot-and-mouth disease.
Myotoxins
Vesicular Stromatitis
Brucellosis
Bovine Viral Disease
14. Hormone stimulates an increase of up to 20% more milk with only 5% more feed.
Johne's
Type
Hairy Foot Wart
BST (Bovine Somatotropin)
15. Common name for ruminal tymphany.
Cryptosporidiosis
Correlation
Type
Bloat
16. Method of feeding cows aimed at finding their potential to secrete milk and used to prevent metabolic shortage in energy.
Challenge
Predicting Transmitting Ability Trait
Cattle Grubs
Prolactin
17. State producing the most milk (total pounds).
Red Water Disease
California
Lumpy Jaw
Brown Swiss
18. Syndactylism.
Ketosis
4
Mule Foot
Correlation
19. Number of dairy cows in the United States.
Somatic
BST (Bovine Somatotropin)
9 -200 -000
Sickle
20. The mammary system of a cow is divided into ___ independent parts.
Jersey
Type Production Index
4
Challenge
21. An infertile female calf born co-twin to a bull.
Bovine Viral Disease
DHI Records
Land-Grant Act
Freemartin
22. Count of ____ cells helps determine inflammation of the mammary gland
Wisconsin
Somatic
Body Conditioning Score
Myotoxins
23. The circumference of the body just back of the shoulders. Used to estimate body weight.
Holstein
Sarcoptic - Saroptic
Barrel Heart Girth
Cryptosporidiosis
24. Diarrhea.
Scours
Israel
Lice
Grass Tetany
25. PTAT
Challenge
Body Conditioning Score
Predicting Transmitting Ability Trait
Correlation
26. Wingless - flattened insects.
Lice
Calcium Glucanate
X Disease
Barrel Heart Girth
27. Metabolic Disease characterized by accessive ketone body formation.
Cattle Grubs
Freemartin
Ketosis
White Muscle Disease
28. Most common limiting nutrient for high milk yield.
White Muscle Disease
Babcock
Mule Foot
Energy
29. Intake protein that is broken down by microorganisms in the rumen.
Israel
Degraded Intake Protein
Challenge
Vibriosis
30. Also known as acetonemia.
X Disease
Ketosis
FCM (Fat Corrected Milk)
Pinkeye
31. The oldest breed of dairy cattle.
Holstein
Brown Swiss
Myotoxins
Bovine Viral Disease
32. The dairy breed with a golden yellow color to its milk.
Epinephrine
White Muscle Disease
Guernsey
X Disease
33. Holstein Association uses ______________ as a method of ranking bulls on their overall performance.
Type Production Index
Cryptosporidiosis
Degraded Intake Protein
Grass Tetany
34. Molds which develop on feed producing toxins.
DHIA ( Dairy Herd Improvement Association)
White Muscle Disease
Myotoxins
Shipping Fever
35. Parturient paresis.
Cryptosporidiosis
Claw
Milk Fever
Brown Swiss
36. _____ and _____ are two reportable external parasites common to dairy and beef cattle.
Sarcoptic - Saroptic
Body Conditioning Score
9 -200 -000
Degraded Intake Protein
37. Caused by Mycobacterium bovis.
Dry
Tuberculosis
Predicting Transmitting Ability Trait
Malignant Edema
38. Four of the leading states in milk production are ___ ___ __ __
Liver Fluke
Ketosis
Malignant Edema
CA - AZ - WA - CO
39. A chamber that connects the four teat cups to the milk line.
Claw
300-500
Challenge
Tuberculosis
40. Hormone stimulates mammary duct development.
1890
Estrogen
Bloat
300-500
41. Optinum daylight hours for maximum milk yield.
16
Udders
Babcock
Sarcoptic - Saroptic
42. Physical conformation of an animal.
Vibriosis
Cryptosporidiosis
Energy
Type
43. Established colleges of agriculture in each state.
Guernsey
Milk Fever
Udders
Land-Grant Act
44. Common name for interdigital phlegmon.
Sickle
Lumpy Jaw
Foot Rot
Freemartin
45. One of the most commonly diagnosed viruses in bovine abortion cases and easily prevented with vaccination and improved sanitation.
Aveoli
Bovine Viral Disease
Grass Tetany
Sarcoptic - Saroptic
46. Also known as traumatic gastritis.
Mange
Hardware Disease
Brown Swiss
Bovine Herpes Infectious Virus
47. An example of a trematode.
Mule Foot
2 -180
Liver Fluke
X Disease
48. Uses DCADS to minimize incidence of _______?
BST (Bovine Somatotropin)
Milk Fever
CA - AZ - WA - CO
Babcock
49. Hormone stimulates milk production.
Prolactin
Anthrometics
Milking Shorthorn
Guernsey
50. Spores from this fatal disease can live in the soil for more than 60 years.
Energy
Prolactin
DHI Records
Anthrax