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Dairy Cow Industry

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






2. Test for determination of BF% in milk.






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






4. Naturally hornless.






5. Also known as acetonemia.






6. Molds which develop on feed producing toxins.






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






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






9. Also known as traumatic gastritis.






10. Caused by Mycobacterium bovis.






11. Agent which destroys worms in digestive tract.






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






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






14. Uses DCADS to minimize incidence of _______?






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






16. Parturient paresis.






17. Most common treatment for milk fever.






18. Normal rectal temperature of a dairy cow.






19. The oldest breed of dairy cattle.






20. Most common limiting nutrient for high milk yield.






21. Also known as Red Nose.






22. The dairy breed with the highest fat percentage.






23. Physical conformation of an animal.






24. Wingless - flattened insects.






25. Syndactylism.






26. Mechanism that permits alternating vacuum and atmospheric pressure to exit between the teat cup liner and shell.






27. 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.






28. 'Barn-itch'.






29. Common name for infectious bovine keratonconjuctivitis.






30. Recommended method for dairy cattle.






31. Hormone Stimulates milk letdown.






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






33. Cause of cattle grubs.






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






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

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36. Common name for papillomatous digital dermatitis.






37. Optinum daylight hours for maximum milk yield.






38. The Ayrshire breed is colored ____ and white.






39. MUN is abbreviation for ___________?






40. Cows are usually rebred at ___ days after breeding






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






42. Established colleges of agriculture in each state.






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






44. Another name for carousel type milk barn.






45. PTAT






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






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






48. Common name for syndactylism.






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






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