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Dairy Cow Industry

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1. The common name for Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE).






2. Also known as Bovine genital Campylobacteriosis.






3. Common name for syndactylism.






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






5. Metabolic Disease characterized by accessive ketone body formation.






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






7. Common name for ruminal tymphany.






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






9. Parturient paresis.






10. A chamber that connects the four teat cups to the milk line.






11. Optinum daylight hours for maximum milk yield.






12. Cows are usually rebred at ___ days after breeding






13. Diarrhea.






14. Illawara.






15. 'Barn-itch'.






16. Hormone stimulates mammary duct development.






17. Adjustment of milk with different fat percentages to equivalent amounts on an energy basis.






18. Physical conformation of an animal.






19. PTAT






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






21. State with the largest number of dairy cows.






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






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






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






25. Milking cows are usually milked ____ days and 'dried up' ___ days before the next lactation






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






27. CSS stands for.






28. Caused by a deficiency of iodine in the diet.






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






30. Also known as Red Nose.






31. Also known as Bacillary hemoglobinuria.






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






33. MUN is abbreviation for ___________?






34. 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.






35. The oldest breed of dairy cattle.






36. Caused by the heel fly.






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






38. Also known as traumatic gastritis.






39. Syndactylism.






40. Normal rectal temperature of a dairy cow.






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

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42. Also called gas gangrene.






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






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






45. Wingless - flattened insects.






46. Caused by Mycobacterium bovis.






47. 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.






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






49. Viral disorder that causes lesions indistinguishable from those of foot-and-mouth disease.






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