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Dairy Cow Industry
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1. A fatal protozoan disease of cattle that destroys the red blood cells - causing anemia and death.
California
Anaplasmosis
Barrel Heart Girth
Challenge
2. 'Barn-itch'.
305 - 60
Milk Fever
California
Mange
3. The oldest breed of dairy cattle.
Correlation
Anaplasmosis
Type Production Index
Brown Swiss
4. Diarrhea.
Scours
White Muscle Disease
Rotary
Predicting Transmitting Ability Trait
5. Method of feeding cows aimed at finding their potential to secrete milk and used to prevent metabolic shortage in energy.
Land-Grant Act
Shipping Fever
Somatic
Challenge
6. The common name for Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE).
Tuberculosis
FCM (Fat Corrected Milk)
Udders
Mad Cow Disease
7. Hormone Stimulates milk letdown.
Oxytocin
Holstein
FCM (Fat Corrected Milk)
Scours
8. Tendency of two or more traits to vary in the same direction or in opposite directions due to common forces or influences.
Challenge
Udders: 40 % Dairy Character: 20% Frame: 15% Feet and Legs: 15% Body Capacity: 10%
Vibriosis
Correlation
9. The Ayrshire breed is colored ____ and white.
Red
Land-Grant Act
CA - AZ - WA - CO
Lice
10. Also known as hyperkeratosis.
X Disease
Claw
Hardware Disease
FCM (Fat Corrected Milk)
11. Disease characterized by pneumonia or septicemia. The highest incidence occurs in animals subjected to stress.
Shipping Fever
Goiter
Body Conditioning Score
9 -200 -000
12. Also known as traumatic gastritis.
Vesicular Stromatitis
Hardware Disease
Mature Equivalent
Calcium Glucanate
13. Used to regularly evaluate where an individual cow stands in body condition relative to the ideals for her stage in lactation.
Body Conditioning Score
Oxytocin
Claw
Udders
14. Agent which destroys worms in digestive tract.
Ketosis
Energy
Anthrometics
DHIA ( Dairy Herd Improvement Association)
15. Viral disorder that causes lesions indistinguishable from those of foot-and-mouth disease.
Brucellosis
Vesicular Stromatitis
Jersey
Somatic
16. Hormone stimulates an increase of up to 20% more milk with only 5% more feed.
Red
BST (Bovine Somatotropin)
Grass Tetany
Holstein
17. Common name for papillomatous digital dermatitis.
Anaplasmosis
Udders: 40 % Dairy Character: 20% Frame: 15% Feet and Legs: 15% Body Capacity: 10%
Hairy Foot Wart
Guernsey
18. Wingless - flattened insects.
Milk Urea Nitrogen
2 -180
Grass Tetany
Lice
19. Most important type trait in a dairy cow.
Udders: 40 % Dairy Character: 20% Frame: 15% Feet and Legs: 15% Body Capacity: 10%
1890
Udders
AI
20. Parturient paresis.
Holstein
DHI Records
Milk Fever
Babcock
21. Year Babcock Test was developed.
Sarcoptic - Saroptic
1890
Sickle
Claw
22. Test for determination of BF% in milk.
Type
Johne's
Babcock
9 -200 -000
23. Spores from this fatal disease can live in the soil for more than 60 years.
Degraded Intake Protein
Anthrax
Mule Foot
Oxytocin
24. Syndactylism.
Sarcoptic - Saroptic
Mule Foot
Grass Tetany
California
25. _____ and _____ are two reportable external parasites common to dairy and beef cattle.
Trocar
Prolactin
Sarcoptic - Saroptic
DHIA ( Dairy Herd Improvement Association)
26. PTAT
Red Water Disease
FCM (Fat Corrected Milk)
Type Production Index
Predicting Transmitting Ability Trait
27. The mammary system of a cow is divided into ___ independent parts.
DHIA ( Dairy Herd Improvement Association)
Challenge
4
Anaplasmosis
28. Also known as acetonemia.
Ketosis
Sickle
Bovine Herpes Infectious Virus
Prolactin
29. Molds which develop on feed producing toxins.
Grass Tetany
Calcium Glucanate
Myotoxins
Certified Semen Services
30. Most common limiting nutrient for high milk yield.
Barrel Heart Girth
Milk Urea Nitrogen
Claw
Energy
31. Four of the leading states in milk production are ___ ___ __ __
Hairy Foot Wart
Wisconsin
16
CA - AZ - WA - CO
32. The circumference of the body just back of the shoulders. Used to estimate body weight.
Correlation
Barrel Heart Girth
305 - 60
Red
33. A zoonotic disorder affecting as many as 90% of dairy farms.
Bovine Viral Disease
Cryptosporidiosis
Foot Rot
Displaced Abomasum
34. Adjustment of milk with different fat percentages to equivalent amounts on an energy basis.
FCM (Fat Corrected Milk)
Aveoli
Challenge
Sarcoptic - Saroptic
35. Intake protein that is broken down by microorganisms in the rumen.
Cryptosporidiosis
Udders
Challenge
Degraded Intake Protein
36. Unulent fever in people.
Wisconsin
Pinkeye
Body Conditioning Score
Brucellosis
37. Holstein Association uses ______________ as a method of ranking bulls on their overall performance.
Type Production Index
Liver Fluke
X Disease
Bovine Herpes Infectious Virus
38. Established colleges of agriculture in each state.
Brown Swiss
Land-Grant Act
Body Conditioning Score
Wisconsin
39. Milking cows are usually milked ____ days and 'dried up' ___ days before the next lactation
Vesicular Stromatitis
305 - 60
Cattle Grubs
Mature Equivalent
40. Normal rectal temperature of a dairy cow.
1890
101.5
Mange
Israel
41. 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.
Red Water Disease
DHI Records
1890
Degraded Intake Protein
42. Recommended method for dairy cattle.
Certified Semen Services
Microscopic Agglutination Test
Correlation
AI
43. Also known as Bovine genital Campylobacteriosis.
Sarcoptic - Saroptic
Vibriosis
Ketosis
Hardware Disease
44. Age conversion formulas applied to milk production of young cows to compare their milk yield with more mature cows.
Bloat
305 - 60
Mature Equivalent
1890
45. Milk is actually secreted in grape-like structures called ____
Dry
60
Aveoli
1890
46. Period of non-lactation between two periods of lactation.
Hardware Disease
Degraded Intake Protein
Dry
Udders: 40 % Dairy Character: 20% Frame: 15% Feet and Legs: 15% Body Capacity: 10%
47. Common name for syndactylism.
Rotary
Wisconsin
Mule Foot
Barrel Heart Girth
48. Illawara.
Israel
Milking Shorthorn
Land-Grant Act
Udders
49. Cause of cattle grubs.
Lumpy Jaw
Tuberculosis
Heel Fly
Correlation
50. Count of ____ cells helps determine inflammation of the mammary gland
Milk Fever
Mule Foot
Somatic
Prolactin