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Dairy Cow Industry

Subject : industries
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1. The dairy breed with a golden yellow color to its milk.






2. Optinum daylight hours for maximum milk yield.






3. Hormone stimulates milk production.






4. Common name for syndactylism.






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






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






7. CSS stands for.






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






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






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






11. 'Barn-itch'.






12. The dairy breed with the highest fat percentage.






13. An example of a trematode.






14. Common name for ruminal tymphany.






15. Naturally hornless.






16. Cows are usually rebred at ___ days after breeding






17. Most common treatment for milk fever.






18. Common name for papillomatous digital dermatitis.






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






20. Agent which destroys worms in digestive tract.






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






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






23. An association which dairy farmers join to participate in their record-keeping and management plans and is operated jointly by the USDA and state colleges of agriculture and land-grant universities.






24. Uses DCADS to minimize incidence of _______?






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






26. Also called gas gangrene.






27. Common name for nematodes.






28. 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.






29. Normal rectal temperature of a dairy cow.






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






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






32. Syndactylism.






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






34. Caused by Mycobacterium bovis.






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






36. Also known as Bacillary hemoglobinuria.






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






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






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






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






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






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






43. Caused by the heel fly.






44. Hormone stimulates mammary duct development.






45. Another name for carousel type milk barn.






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






47. State with the largest number of dairy cows.






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






49. Also known as Bovine genital Campylobacteriosis.






50. Also known as acetonemia.