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Dairy Cow Industry
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1. Hormone stimulates milk production.
Grass Tetany
Bovine Herpes Infectious Virus
Mule Foot
Prolactin
2. Illawara.
16
4
Milking Shorthorn
Mad Cow Disease
3. 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.
Anthrometics
Aveoli
DHIA ( Dairy Herd Improvement Association)
Sarcoptic - Saroptic
4. Hormone counteracts milk letdown.
Bovine Herpes Infectious Virus
Epinephrine
Hairy Foot Wart
Trocar
5. Agent which destroys worms in digestive tract.
California
4
Polled
Anthrometics
6. Disease characterized by pneumonia or septicemia. The highest incidence occurs in animals subjected to stress.
Lumpy Jaw
Shipping Fever
Guernsey
Somatic
7. Caused by a deficiency of iodine in the diet.
Liver Fluke
Goiter
Mature Equivalent
Brown Swiss
8. The mammary system of a cow is divided into ___ independent parts.
Type
4
Scours
Claw
9. The main points of a dairy cow and their perspective points in juding are...
Freemartin
Udders: 40 % Dairy Character: 20% Frame: 15% Feet and Legs: 15% Body Capacity: 10%
Myotoxins
Babcock
10. Most important type trait in a dairy cow.
Certified Semen Services
Foot Rot
FCM (Fat Corrected Milk)
Udders
11. Rolling herd average for U.S. dairy herd.
2 -180
Mad Cow Disease
1890
Land-Grant Act
12. Milk is actually secreted in grape-like structures called ____
Aveoli
Foot Rot
Vibriosis
CA - AZ - WA - CO
13. Parturient paresis.
16
Pulsator
Milk Fever
Cattle Grubs
14. The ____ is used by all dairy cattle breed associations as the standard for judging and classifying cattle
Pulsator
Grass Tetany
Challenge
DCUS (Dairy Cow Uniform Scorecard)
15. Diarrhea.
Lice
305 - 60
Scours
67 -914
16. Naturally hornless.
Polled
FCM (Fat Corrected Milk)
Foot Rot
Wisconsin
17. Mechanism that permits alternating vacuum and atmospheric pressure to exit between the teat cup liner and shell.
Bloat
Milk Urea Nitrogen
Pulsator
Udders
18. The dairy breed that is used mostly for milk and veal is _____
Shipping Fever
Pinkeye
AI
Holstein
19. The Ayrshire breed is colored ____ and white.
Body Conditioning Score
1890
Red
101.5
20. Used to regularly evaluate where an individual cow stands in body condition relative to the ideals for her stage in lactation.
Certified Semen Services
Jersey
DCUS (Dairy Cow Uniform Scorecard)
Body Conditioning Score
21. PTAT
Myotoxins
67 -914
Bovine Viral Disease
Predicting Transmitting Ability Trait
22. Holstein Association uses ______________ as a method of ranking bulls on their overall performance.
4
Type Production Index
Mule Foot
Milk Fever
23. The oldest breed of dairy cattle.
Brown Swiss
Malignant Edema
Certified Semen Services
16
24. Four of the leading states in milk production are ___ ___ __ __
Prolactin
Cattle Grubs
CA - AZ - WA - CO
Foot Rot
25. Period of non-lactation between two periods of lactation.
Dry
Brown Swiss
Barrel Heart Girth
Correlation
26. 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.
Milk Fever
Land-Grant Act
DHI Records
101.5
27. The dairy breed with a golden yellow color to its milk.
Pulsator
Guernsey
Epinephrine
Predicting Transmitting Ability Trait
28. An example of a trematode.
Prolactin
4
Hardware Disease
Liver Fluke
29. Most common treatment for milk fever.
Correlation
Milking Shorthorn
Hardware Disease
Calcium Glucanate
30. Caused by Actinomy bovis.
Foot Rot
Red
Estrogen
Lumpy Jaw
31. Also known as Red Nose.
CA - AZ - WA - CO
Grass Tetany
Bovine Herpes Infectious Virus
Heel Fly
32. Intake protein that is broken down by microorganisms in the rumen.
Sickle
Liver Fluke
Red Water Disease
Degraded Intake Protein
33. Also known as traumatic gastritis.
Hardware Disease
AI
Epinephrine
Lice
34. Recommended method for dairy cattle.
AI
Udders
67 -914
Oxytocin
35. A fatal protozoan disease of cattle that destroys the red blood cells - causing anemia and death.
California
BST (Bovine Somatotropin)
Anaplasmosis
Wisconsin
36. The dairy breed with the highest fat percentage.
Body Conditioning Score
Lumpy Jaw
Goiter
Jersey
37. Adjustment of milk with different fat percentages to equivalent amounts on an energy basis.
Sickle
FCM (Fat Corrected Milk)
Mange
Certified Semen Services
38. Most commonly used test for diagnosis of Leptospirosis in cattle.
Microscopic Agglutination Test
Freemartin
Prolactin
Type
39. The common name for Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE).
Guernsey
BST (Bovine Somatotropin)
Sarcoptic - Saroptic
Mad Cow Disease
40. Physical conformation of an animal.
Prolactin
Type
Myotoxins
Vibriosis
41. Hormone Stimulates milk letdown.
Vesicular Stromatitis
FCM (Fat Corrected Milk)
Oxytocin
Malignant Edema
42. Milking cows are usually milked ____ days and 'dried up' ___ days before the next lactation
305 - 60
Mad Cow Disease
BST (Bovine Somatotropin)
Hairy Foot Wart
43. 'Barn-itch'.
Mange
67 -914
CA - AZ - WA - CO
Wisconsin
44. Should only be used as a last resort for the treatment of ruminal tymphany.
Grass Tetany
4
Trocar
Johne's
45. The world record/ cow/ year for milk yield (in pounds).
Roundworms
Challenge
67 -914
Milk Fever
46. Common name for infectious bovine keratonconjuctivitis.
CA - AZ - WA - CO
Pinkeye
Aveoli
Milk Fever
47. Cows are usually rebred at ___ days after breeding
Barrel Heart Girth
60
Body Conditioning Score
DCUS (Dairy Cow Uniform Scorecard)
48. CSS stands for.
Roundworms
White Muscle Disease
Sickle
Certified Semen Services
49. Caused by the heel fly.
Myotoxins
Cattle Grubs
CA - AZ - WA - CO
Brucellosis
50. Uses DCADS to minimize incidence of _______?
Milk Fever
Degraded Intake Protein
Hardware Disease
Calcium Glucanate