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Dairy Cow Industry

Subject : industries
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1. Age conversion formulas applied to milk production of young cows to compare their milk yield with more mature cows.






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






3. Recommended method for dairy cattle.






4. Molds which develop on feed producing toxins.






5. Hormone stimulates milk production.






6. Physical conformation of an animal.






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






8. Most important type trait in a dairy cow.






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






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






11. Hormone Stimulates milk letdown.






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






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






14. Also known as acetonemia.






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






16. PTAT






17. Established colleges of agriculture in each state.






18. Caused by the heel fly.






19. Caused by Mycobacterium bovis.






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






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






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






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






24. State with the largest number of dairy cows.






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






26. Syndactylism.






27. Casting is used as a temporary treatment of this disorder.






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






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






30. Agent which destroys worms in digestive tract.






31. Diarrhea.






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






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






34. Caused by a deficiency of iodine in the diet.






35. Also known as hyperkeratosis.






36. Common name for infectious bovine keratonconjuctivitis.






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






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






39. Year Babcock Test was developed.






40. Cows are usually rebred at ___ days after breeding






41. Also known as Red Nose.






42. Number of dairy cows in the United States.






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






44. An example of a trematode.






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






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






47. Also known as Bovine genital Campylobacteriosis.






48. A zoonotic disorder affecting as many as 90% of dairy farms.






49. Also called gas gangrene.






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