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Dairy Cow Industry

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






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






3. 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.






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






5. Most important type trait in a dairy cow.






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






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






8. Most common treatment for milk fever.






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






10. Another name for carousel type milk barn.






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






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






13. 'Barn-itch'.






14. Number of dairy cows in the United States.






15. Hormone Stimulates milk letdown.






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






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






18. Hormone stimulates mammary duct development.






19. Physical conformation of an animal.






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






21. Hormone stimulates milk production.






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






23. Most common limiting nutrient for high milk yield.






24. Common name for infectious bovine keratonconjuctivitis.






25. State with the largest number of dairy cows.






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






27. The Ayrshire breed is colored ____ and white.






28. Optinum daylight hours for maximum milk yield.






29. An example of a trematode.






30. Parturient paresis.






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






32. Cows are usually rebred at ___ days after breeding






33. Cause of cattle grubs.






34. Common name for ruminal tymphany.






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






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






37. Also known as hyperkeratosis.






38. Metabolic Disease characterized by accessive ketone body formation.






39. Recommended method for dairy cattle.






40. Also known as Bovine genital Campylobacteriosis.






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






42. Common name for syndactylism.






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






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






45. Diarrhea.






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






47. Unulent fever in people.






48. PTAT






49. 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.






50. Also known as acetonemia.