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Dairy Cow Industry
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1. Most important type trait in a dairy cow.
Anthrax
Type
Udders
Udders: 40 % Dairy Character: 20% Frame: 15% Feet and Legs: 15% Body Capacity: 10%
2. A chamber that connects the four teat cups to the milk line.
Claw
Hardware Disease
Hairy Foot Wart
DHIA ( Dairy Herd Improvement Association)
3. Year Babcock Test was developed.
Estrogen
1890
Epinephrine
Sarcoptic - Saroptic
4. Also called gas gangrene.
Malignant Edema
Shipping Fever
Hardware Disease
Anthrometics
5. Should only be used as a last resort for the treatment of ruminal tymphany.
Trocar
Holstein
Foot Rot
FCM (Fat Corrected Milk)
6. Age conversion formulas applied to milk production of young cows to compare their milk yield with more mature cows.
Anthrometics
Foot Rot
Mature Equivalent
Malignant Edema
7. Hormone stimulates mammary duct development.
Vesicular Stromatitis
Rotary
Estrogen
4
8. Adjustment of milk with different fat percentages to equivalent amounts on an energy basis.
FCM (Fat Corrected Milk)
305 - 60
Red
Milk Fever
9. Hormone stimulates an increase of up to 20% more milk with only 5% more feed.
Degraded Intake Protein
2 -180
BST (Bovine Somatotropin)
Barrel Heart Girth
10. Molds which develop on feed producing toxins.
Myotoxins
Mule Foot
Udders
Sarcoptic - Saroptic
11. Tendency of two or more traits to vary in the same direction or in opposite directions due to common forces or influences.
Udders
Anaplasmosis
Correlation
Polled
12. Caused by the heel fly.
Hairy Foot Wart
Type Production Index
Cattle Grubs
Vesicular Stromatitis
13. _____ and _____ are two reportable external parasites common to dairy and beef cattle.
Ketosis
Shipping Fever
67 -914
Sarcoptic - Saroptic
14. Milking cows are usually milked ____ days and 'dried up' ___ days before the next lactation
Brucellosis
305 - 60
Challenge
Pulsator
15. Rolling herd average for U.S. dairy herd.
2 -180
1890
DHI Records
Mule Foot
16. Optinum daylight hours for maximum milk yield.
Red Water Disease
Scours
16
Udders
17. Viral disorder that causes lesions indistinguishable from those of foot-and-mouth disease.
Epinephrine
2 -180
Vesicular Stromatitis
Claw
18. CSS stands for.
Displaced Abomasum
Estrogen
Shipping Fever
Certified Semen Services
19. 'Barn-itch'.
Predicting Transmitting Ability Trait
Claw
Pulsator
Mange
20. Caused by Actinomy bovis.
Calcium Glucanate
Lumpy Jaw
Babcock
9 -200 -000
21. Most common treatment for milk fever.
Calcium Glucanate
Somatic
White Muscle Disease
Israel
22. Uses DCADS to minimize incidence of _______?
Milk Fever
Hardware Disease
Hairy Foot Wart
Red Water Disease
23. Common name for syndactylism.
AI
Udders
Mule Foot
Milk Urea Nitrogen
24. Diarrhea.
Ketosis
Pinkeye
Scours
Predicting Transmitting Ability Trait
25. Normal rectal temperature of a dairy cow.
Polled
Shipping Fever
Mange
101.5
26. Common name for papillomatous digital dermatitis.
Mad Cow Disease
Sickle
Sarcoptic - Saroptic
Hairy Foot Wart
27. Physical conformation of an animal.
Body Conditioning Score
Hardware Disease
Pulsator
Type
28. Number of dairy cows in the United States.
Estrogen
9 -200 -000
Mad Cow Disease
Hairy Foot Wart
29. Caused by a deficiency of iodine in the diet.
Goiter
Dry
Aveoli
Lice
30. Hormone counteracts milk letdown.
60
Epinephrine
Degraded Intake Protein
Anthrax
31. Mechanism that permits alternating vacuum and atmospheric pressure to exit between the teat cup liner and shell.
Pulsator
Udders: 40 % Dairy Character: 20% Frame: 15% Feet and Legs: 15% Body Capacity: 10%
Holstein
Wisconsin
32. The dairy breed that is used mostly for milk and veal is _____
Goiter
Bovine Viral Disease
Holstein
Heel Fly
33. Hormone stimulates milk production.
Degraded Intake Protein
Hairy Foot Wart
Prolactin
Milk Fever
34. The Ayrshire breed is colored ____ and white.
300-500
Red
Johne's
Malignant Edema
35. Illawara.
Milking Shorthorn
Cattle Grubs
Certified Semen Services
Epinephrine
36. Also known as Bovine genital Campylobacteriosis.
Cryptosporidiosis
305 - 60
16
Vibriosis
37. Another name for carousel type milk barn.
DCUS (Dairy Cow Uniform Scorecard)
Rotary
Milk Fever
Holstein
38. An infertile female calf born co-twin to a bull.
Microscopic Agglutination Test
Udders: 40 % Dairy Character: 20% Frame: 15% Feet and Legs: 15% Body Capacity: 10%
Freemartin
Red Water Disease
39. The circumference of the body just back of the shoulders. Used to estimate body weight.
X Disease
Oxytocin
Johne's
Barrel Heart Girth
40. Period of non-lactation between two periods of lactation.
Milk Urea Nitrogen
DHI Records
Dry
Mad Cow Disease
41. Common name for infectious bovine keratonconjuctivitis.
Bovine Viral Disease
Pinkeye
Bloat
Polled
42. A zoonotic disorder affecting as many as 90% of dairy farms.
101.5
Cryptosporidiosis
4
Wisconsin
43. Test for determination of BF% in milk.
60
1890
Mad Cow Disease
Babcock
44. State with the largest number of dairy cows.
Wisconsin
Type Production Index
Pinkeye
101.5
45. The world record/ cow/ year for milk yield (in pounds).
Energy
305 - 60
Babcock
67 -914
46. Spores from this fatal disease can live in the soil for more than 60 years.
California
Anthrax
Cattle Grubs
Roundworms
47. Milk is actually secreted in grape-like structures called ____
Heel Fly
Aveoli
Freemartin
Babcock
48. Naturally hornless.
Polled
Claw
300-500
Anthrax
49. Also known as hyperkeratosis.
X Disease
Estrogen
Ketosis
Holstein
50. Established colleges of agriculture in each state.
305 - 60
Land-Grant Act
Challenge
Mange