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Dairy Cow Industry

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1. Hormone counteracts milk letdown.






2. Molds which develop on feed producing toxins.






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






4. Wingless - flattened insects.






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


6. 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.






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






8. Spores from this fatal disease can live in the soil for more than 60 years.






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






10. Also known as Bacillary hemoglobinuria.






11. Physical conformation of an animal.






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






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






14. Test for determination of BF% in milk.






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






16. The world record/ cow/ year for milk yield (in pounds).






17. Recommended method for dairy cattle.






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






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






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






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






22. Caused by Mycobacterium bovis.






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






24. PTAT






25. Cows are usually rebred at ___ days after breeding






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






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






28. Normal rectal temperature of a dairy cow.






29. Also known as Bovine genital Campylobacteriosis.






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






31. Parturient paresis.






32. Caused by Actinomy bovis.






33. Hormone stimulates milk production.






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






35. CSS stands for.






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






37. 'Barn-itch'.






38. Most common treatment for milk fever.






39. Common name for interdigital phlegmon.






40. Common name for nematodes.






41. Agent which destroys worms in digestive tract.






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






43. Common name for papillomatous digital dermatitis.






44. Year Babcock Test was developed.






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






46. An example of a trematode.






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






48. Illawara.






49. Number of dairy cows in the United States.






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