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Dairy Cow Industry

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1. Also known as Red Nose.






2. State with the largest number of dairy cows.






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






4. Established colleges of agriculture in each state.






5. Recommended method for dairy cattle.






6. Most common limiting nutrient for high milk yield.






7. Common name for ruminal tymphany.






8. 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.






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






10. Number of dairy cows in the United States.






11. Hormone Stimulates milk letdown.






12. Common name for papillomatous digital dermatitis.






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






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






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






16. Most important type trait in a dairy cow.






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






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






19. PTAT






20. Also known as acetonemia.






21. Cause of cattle grubs.






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






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






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






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






26. Physical conformation of an animal.






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






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






29. Also known as Bacillary hemoglobinuria.






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






31. Syndactylism.






32. CSS stands for.






33. Metabolic Disease characterized by accessive ketone body formation.






34. Caused by Actinomy bovis.






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






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






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






38. The oldest breed of dairy cattle.






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






40. Also known as traumatic gastritis.






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






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






43. Wingless - flattened insects.






44. Uses DCADS to minimize incidence of _______?






45. Common name for interdigital phlegmon.






46. Most common treatment for milk fever.






47. Unulent fever in people.






48. Agent which destroys worms in digestive tract.






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






50. Cows are usually rebred at ___ days after breeding