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Dairy Cow Industry

Subject : industries
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1. Cause of cattle grubs.






2. The dairy breed with the highest fat percentage.






3. Common name for papillomatous digital dermatitis.






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






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






6. The Ayrshire breed is colored ____ and white.






7. MUN is abbreviation for ___________?






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






9. Number of dairy cows in the United States.






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






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






12. CSS stands for.






13. Test for determination of BF% in milk.






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






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






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






17. Most common treatment for milk fever.






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






19. Established colleges of agriculture in each state.






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






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






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






23. Recommended method for dairy cattle.






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






25. Caused by Actinomy bovis.






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






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






28. Common name for interdigital phlegmon.






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






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






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






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






33. Common name for infectious bovine keratonconjuctivitis.






34. Illawara.






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






36. 'Barn-itch'.






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






38. Also known as Bacillary hemoglobinuria.






39. 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.






40. Naturally hornless.






41. Hormone counteracts milk letdown.






42. Also known as hyperkeratosis.






43. Metabolic Disease characterized by accessive ketone body formation.






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






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






46. Hormone Stimulates milk letdown.






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






48. PTAT






49. Year Babcock Test was developed.






50. Also known as traumatic gastritis.