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Dairy Cow Industry

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






2. 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.






3. Syndactylism.






4. Physical conformation of an animal.






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

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






7. Common name for papillomatous digital dermatitis.






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






9. Common name for syndactylism.






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






11. Wingless - flattened insects.






12. Number of dairy cows in the United States.






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






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






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






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






18. Also known as Red Nose.






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






20. The oldest breed of dairy cattle.






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






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






23. Common name for ruminal tymphany.






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






25. Another name for carousel type milk barn.






26. Most important type trait in a dairy cow.






27. Most common treatment for milk fever.






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






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






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






31. State with the largest number of dairy cows.






32. The ____ is used by all dairy cattle breed associations as the standard for judging and classifying cattle






33. Caused by Actinomy bovis.






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






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






36. Also known as traumatic gastritis.






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






38. Hormone stimulates milk production.






39. Age conversion formulas applied to milk production of young cows to compare their milk yield with more mature cows.






40. The dairy breed with the highest fat percentage.






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






42. Caused by Mycobacterium bovis.






43. Common name for infectious bovine keratonconjuctivitis.






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






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






46. 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.






47. Agent which destroys worms in digestive tract.






48. Uses DCADS to minimize incidence of _______?






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






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