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Dairy Cow Industry

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1. 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.






2. An example of a trematode.






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.






4. Cows are usually rebred at ___ days after breeding






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






6. Hormone counteracts milk letdown.






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






8. Hormone Stimulates milk letdown.






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






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






11. Unulent fever in people.






12. CSS stands for.






13. PTAT






14. Caused by Mycobacterium bovis.






15. Metabolic Disease characterized by accessive ketone body formation.






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






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






18. Physical conformation of an animal.






19. Molds which develop on feed producing toxins.






20. Parturient paresis.






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






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






23. Optinum daylight hours for maximum milk yield.






24. Also known as Red Nose.






25. The circumference of the body just back of the shoulders. Used to estimate body weight.






26. Also known as hyperkeratosis.






27. Number of dairy cows in the United States.






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






29. The oldest breed of dairy cattle.






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






31. Agent which destroys worms in digestive tract.






32. State with the largest number of dairy cows.






33. Common name for interdigital phlegmon.






34. Also known as acetonemia.






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






36. Another name for carousel type milk barn.






37. Uses DCADS to minimize incidence of _______?






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






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






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






41. Also known as traumatic gastritis.






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






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






44. Test for determination of BF% in milk.






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






46. Wingless - flattened insects.






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






48. The Ayrshire breed is colored ____ and white.






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






50. Normal rectal temperature of a dairy cow.