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Dairy Cow Industry

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






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






3. Test for determination of BF% in milk.






4. Common name for nematodes.






5. Caused by the heel fly.






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






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






8. Diarrhea.






9. Hormone counteracts milk letdown.






10. Hormone stimulates mammary duct development.






11. A fatal protozoan disease of cattle that destroys the red blood cells - causing anemia and death.






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






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






14. Agent which destroys worms in digestive tract.






15. Recommended method for dairy cattle.






16. Physical conformation of an animal.






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






18. State with the largest number of dairy cows.






19. Naturally hornless.






20. Also known as Bacillary hemoglobinuria.






21. Also known as hyperkeratosis.






22. The oldest breed of dairy cattle.






23. The Ayrshire breed is colored ____ and white.






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






25. Also known as traumatic gastritis.






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






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






28. PTAT






29. The dairy breed with the highest fat percentage.






30. Molds which develop on feed producing toxins.






31. 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.






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






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






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






35. An example of a trematode.






36. MUN is abbreviation for ___________?






37. Common name for syndactylism.






38. Wingless - flattened insects.






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






40. Also called gas gangrene.






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






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






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






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






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






46. Year Babcock Test was developed.






47. Metabolic Disease characterized by accessive ketone body formation.






48. Common name for ruminal tymphany.






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






50. Optinum daylight hours for maximum milk yield.