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Dairy Cow Industry

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1. Optinum daylight hours for maximum milk yield.






2. Common name for infectious bovine keratonconjuctivitis.






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






4. Common name for ruminal tymphany.






5. Also known as hyperkeratosis.






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






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






8. State with the largest number of dairy cows.






9. Another name for carousel type milk barn.






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






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






12. Test for determination of BF% in milk.






13. Naturally hornless.






14. The Ayrshire breed is colored ____ and white.






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

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






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






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






19. CSS stands for.






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






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






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






23. Also known as Bovine genital Campylobacteriosis.






24. Molds which develop on feed producing toxins.






25. Recommended method for dairy cattle.






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






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






28. Hormone stimulates milk production.






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






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






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






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






33. Syndactylism.






34. Metabolic Disease characterized by accessive ketone body formation.






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






36. Number of dairy cows in the United States.






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






38. Also called gas gangrene.






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






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






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






42. Common name for interdigital phlegmon.






43. Common name for papillomatous digital dermatitis.






44. Common name for nematodes.






45. Established colleges of agriculture in each state.






46. The dairy breed with the highest fat percentage.






47. Hormone Stimulates milk letdown.






48. Caused by Mycobacterium bovis.






49. Unulent fever in people.






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