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Dairy Cow Industry

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1. Diarrhea.






2. Caused by the heel fly.






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






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






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






6. Wingless - flattened insects.






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






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






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






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






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






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






13. Also known as Bovine genital Campylobacteriosis.






14. Common name for ruminal tymphany.






15. Illawara.






16. The main points of a dairy cow and their perspective points in juding are...






17. Cows are usually rebred at ___ days after breeding






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






19. Common name for papillomatous digital dermatitis.






20. The oldest breed of dairy cattle.






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






22. Hormone stimulates an increase of up to 20% more milk with only 5% more feed.






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






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






25. Most important type trait in a dairy cow.






26. Milk is actually secreted in grape-like structures called ____






27. Caused by Actinomy bovis.






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






29. Also known as acetonemia.






30. PTAT






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






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






33. Optinum daylight hours for maximum milk yield.






34. Normal rectal temperature of a dairy cow.






35. An example of a trematode.






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






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






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






39. Agent which destroys worms in digestive tract.






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






41. The Ayrshire breed is colored ____ and white.






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






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






44. Also known as Bacillary hemoglobinuria.






45. Hormone stimulates mammary duct development.






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


47. Parturient paresis.






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






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






50. Also called gas gangrene.