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Dairy Cow Industry

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1. PTAT






2. Hormone Stimulates milk letdown.






3. Recommended method for dairy cattle.






4. Also known as Bovine genital Campylobacteriosis.






5. Illawara.






6. Optinum daylight hours for maximum milk yield.






7. Test for determination of BF% in milk.






8. Uses DCADS to minimize incidence of _______?






9. The oldest breed of dairy cattle.






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






11. Common name for papillomatous digital dermatitis.






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






13. Parturient paresis.






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






15. 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.






16. Another name for carousel type milk barn.






17. Milking cows are usually milked ____ days and 'dried up' ___ days before the next lactation






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






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






20. Also known as acetonemia.






21. Also known as Red Nose.






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






23. Syndactylism.






24. Hormone stimulates mammary duct development.






25. The dairy breed with the highest fat percentage.






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


27. Also called gas gangrene.






28. Also known as Bacillary hemoglobinuria.






29. 'Barn-itch'.






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






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






32. Common name for interdigital phlegmon.






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






34. MUN is abbreviation for ___________?






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






36. Most common treatment for milk fever.






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






38. 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.






39. Describes an animal having a crooked hock - which causes the lower part of the leg to be bent forward out of a normal perpendicular straight line.






40. An example of a trematode.






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






42. Molds which develop on feed producing toxins.






43. Agent which destroys worms in digestive tract.






44. Adjustment of milk with different fat percentages to equivalent amounts on an energy basis.






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






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






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






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






49. Cows are usually rebred at ___ days after breeding






50. Common name for infectious bovine keratonconjuctivitis.