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Dairy Cow Industry

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






2. 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.






3. Hormone Stimulates milk letdown.






4. 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.






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






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






7. Common name for papillomatous digital dermatitis.






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






9. Caused by Actinomy bovis.






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






11. Parturient paresis.






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






13. Also known as hyperkeratosis.






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






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

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16. Metabolic Disease characterized by accessive ketone body formation.






17. Molds which develop on feed producing toxins.






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






19. CSS stands for.






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






21. Common name for syndactylism.






22. Intake protein that is broken down by microorganisms in the rumen.






23. 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.






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






25. Most commonly used test for diagnosis of Leptospirosis in cattle.






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






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






28. Established colleges of agriculture in each state.






29. Agent which destroys worms in digestive tract.






30. Recommended method for dairy cattle.






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






32. Unulent fever in people.






33. MUN is abbreviation for ___________?






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






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






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






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






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






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






40. Illawara.






41. Caused by Mycobacterium bovis.






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






43. Hormone stimulates mammary duct development.






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






45. Cause of cattle grubs.






46. Also known as acetonemia.






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






48. Test for determination of BF% in milk.






49. Naturally hornless.






50. Common name for nematodes.