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Dairy Cow Industry

Subject : industries
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1. The dairy breed with a golden yellow color to its milk.






2. An example of a trematode.






3. Illawara.






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






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






6. Common name for papillomatous digital dermatitis.






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






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






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






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






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






12. Most common limiting nutrient for high milk yield.






13. Another name for carousel type milk barn.






14. Molds which develop on feed producing toxins.






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






16. CSS stands for.






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






18. Caused by the heel fly.






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






20. Year Babcock Test was developed.






21. Uses DCADS to minimize incidence of _______?






22. Hormone counteracts milk letdown.






23. Normal rectal temperature of a dairy cow.






24. Common name for syndactylism.






25. State with the largest number of dairy cows.






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






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






28. Common name for infectious bovine keratonconjuctivitis.






29. 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.






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






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






32. PTAT






33. Hormone Stimulates milk letdown.






34. Also known as Bacillary hemoglobinuria.






35. Cause of cattle grubs.






36. Parturient paresis.






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






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






39. Established colleges of agriculture in each state.






40. Number of dairy cows in the United States.






41. Most common treatment for milk fever.






42. Caused by Actinomy bovis.






43. The Ayrshire breed is colored ____ and white.






44. Optinum daylight hours for maximum milk yield.






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






46. MUN is abbreviation for ___________?






47. Common name for interdigital phlegmon.






48. Syndactylism.






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






50. Test for determination of BF% in milk.