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Dairy Cow Industry

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1. Hormone Stimulates milk letdown.






2. Caused by Mycobacterium bovis.






3. CSS stands for.






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






5. Hormone stimulates mammary duct development.






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






7. Naturally hornless.






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






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






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






11. Common name for papillomatous digital dermatitis.






12. State with the largest number of dairy cows.






13. Caused by the heel fly.






14. PTAT






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






16. Another name for carousel type milk barn.






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

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18. Optinum daylight hours for maximum milk yield.






19. Common name for nematodes.






20. Metabolic Disease characterized by accessive ketone body formation.






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






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






23. The oldest breed of dairy cattle.






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






25. Test for determination of BF% in milk.






26. Cows are usually rebred at ___ days after breeding






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






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. Wingless - flattened insects.






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






31. Common name for syndactylism.






32. 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.






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






34. Also known as acetonemia.






35. The dairy breed with the highest fat percentage.






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






37. Common name for ruminal tymphany.






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






39. An example of a trematode.






40. 'Barn-itch'.






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






42. Cause of cattle grubs.






43. Common name for infectious bovine keratonconjuctivitis.






44. Most common limiting nutrient for high milk yield.






45. Established colleges of agriculture in each state.






46. Number of dairy cows in the United States.






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






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






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






50. Also known as hyperkeratosis.