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Dairy Cow Industry

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






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






3. An example of a trematode.






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






5. Common name for interdigital phlegmon.






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






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






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






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






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






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






12. Test for determination of BF% in milk.






13. Common name for infectious bovine keratonconjuctivitis.






14. Syndactylism.






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






16. Most common limiting nutrient for high milk yield.






17. Hormone Stimulates milk letdown.






18. Count of ____ cells helps determine inflammation of the mammary gland






19. Normal rectal temperature of a dairy cow.






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






21. Hormone counteracts milk letdown.






22. Also called gas gangrene.






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






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






25. Diarrhea.






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






27. The dairy breed with the highest fat percentage.






28. Also known as acetonemia.






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






30. Another name for carousel type milk barn.






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






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






33. Optinum daylight hours for maximum milk yield.






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






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






36. Caused by the heel fly.






37. Year Babcock Test was developed.






38. Caused by Mycobacterium bovis.






39. Common name for ruminal tymphany.






40. 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.






41. Wingless - flattened insects.






42. Parturient paresis.






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






44. Also known as Bovine genital Campylobacteriosis.






45. Common name for papillomatous digital dermatitis.






46. Also known as hyperkeratosis.






47. PTAT






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






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






50. Also known as Bacillary hemoglobinuria.