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Dairy Cow Industry

Subject : industries
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1. Parts blood must pass through the udder to produce milk.






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






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






4. Hormone Stimulates milk letdown.






5. 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.






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






7. Common name for ruminal tymphany.






8. State with the largest number of dairy cows.






9. Cause of cattle grubs.






10. Illawara.






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






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






13. Naturally hornless.






14. Agent which destroys worms in digestive tract.






15. An example of a trematode.






16. Most common treatment for milk fever.






17. Milking cows are usually milked ____ days and 'dried up' ___ days before the next lactation






18. Common name for nematodes.






19. Hormone stimulates mammary duct development.






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






21. Also known as acetonemia.






22. Caused by the heel fly.






23. 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.






24. Uses DCADS to minimize incidence of _______?






25. Unulent fever in people.






26. The Ayrshire breed is colored ____ and white.






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






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






29. Normal rectal temperature of a dairy cow.






30. Also known as traumatic gastritis.






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






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






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






34. Also called gas gangrene.






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






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






37. 'Barn-itch'.






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






39. Recommended method for dairy cattle.






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






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






42. CSS stands for.






43. Hormone counteracts milk letdown.






44. MUN is abbreviation for ___________?






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






46. Wingless - flattened insects.






47. PTAT






48. Also known as Bacillary hemoglobinuria.






49. Common name for papillomatous digital dermatitis.






50. Also known as hyperkeratosis.