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Dairy Cow Industry

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

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2. Metabolic Disease characterized by accessive ketone body formation.






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






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






5. 'Barn-itch'.






6. Common name for papillomatous digital dermatitis.






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






8. Most important type trait in a dairy cow.






9. Also known as hyperkeratosis.






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






11. Caused by Actinomy bovis.






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






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






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






15. 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.






16. Naturally hornless.






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






18. Common name for syndactylism.






19. Syndactylism.






20. Optinum daylight hours for maximum milk yield.






21. MUN is abbreviation for ___________?






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






23. Test for determination of BF% in milk.






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






25. Common name for ruminal tymphany.






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






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






28. Common name for infectious bovine keratonconjuctivitis.






29. Caused by Mycobacterium bovis.






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






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






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






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






34. The oldest breed of dairy cattle.






35. Hormone Stimulates milk letdown.






36. Established colleges of agriculture in each state.






37. Another name for carousel type milk barn.






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






39. Parturient paresis.






40. Normal rectal temperature of a dairy cow.






41. Illawara.






42. Number of dairy cows in the United States.






43. An example of a trematode.






44. Physical conformation of an animal.






45. State producing the most milk (total pounds).






46. Also known as traumatic gastritis.






47. The main points of a dairy cow and their perspective points in juding are...






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






49. Diarrhea.






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