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Dairy Cow Industry

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1. Also called gas gangrene.






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






3. CSS stands for.






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






5. Diarrhea.






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






7. The dairy breed with the highest fat percentage.






8. Wingless - flattened insects.






9. Recommended method for dairy cattle.






10. Also known as Bacillary hemoglobinuria.






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






12. Syndactylism.






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






14. Hormone stimulates mammary duct development.






15. 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.






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






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






18. Metabolic Disease characterized by accessive ketone body formation.






19. 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.






20. Common name for ruminal tymphany.






21. Hormone Stimulates milk letdown.






22. Physical conformation of an animal.






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






24. Caused by the heel fly.






25. Common name for papillomatous digital dermatitis.






26. Hormone counteracts milk letdown.






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






28. Most important type trait in a dairy cow.






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






31. Parturient paresis.






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






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






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






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






36. Hormone stimulates milk production.






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






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






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






40. Common name for nematodes.






41. 'Barn-itch'.






42. Test for determination of BF% in milk.






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






44. Number of dairy cows in the United States.






45. Another name for carousel type milk barn.






46. Agent which destroys worms in digestive tract.






47. Most common treatment for milk fever.






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

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49. Cause of cattle grubs.






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