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Dairy Cow Industry

Subject : industries
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1. Hormone stimulates milk production.






2. Illawara.






3. 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.






4. Hormone counteracts milk letdown.






5. Agent which destroys worms in digestive tract.






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






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






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






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






10. Most important type trait in a dairy cow.






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






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






13. Parturient paresis.






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






15. Diarrhea.






16. Naturally hornless.






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






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






19. The Ayrshire breed is colored ____ and white.






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






21. PTAT






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






23. The oldest breed of dairy cattle.






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






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






26. 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.






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






28. An example of a trematode.






29. Most common treatment for milk fever.






30. Caused by Actinomy bovis.






31. Also known as Red Nose.






32. Intake protein that is broken down by microorganisms in the rumen.






33. Also known as traumatic gastritis.






34. Recommended method for dairy cattle.






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






36. The dairy breed with the highest fat percentage.






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






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






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






40. Physical conformation of an animal.






41. Hormone Stimulates milk letdown.






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






43. 'Barn-itch'.






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






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






46. Common name for infectious bovine keratonconjuctivitis.






47. Cows are usually rebred at ___ days after breeding






48. CSS stands for.






49. Caused by the heel fly.






50. Uses DCADS to minimize incidence of _______?