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Dairy Cow Industry

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






2. An example of a trematode.






3. Also known as acetonemia.






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






5. 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.






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






7. Caused by Mycobacterium bovis.






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






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

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






11. Unulent fever in people.






12. Also known as Bovine genital Campylobacteriosis.






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






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






15. MUN is abbreviation for ___________?






16. Diarrhea.






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






18. Cause of cattle grubs.






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






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






21. Hormone counteracts milk letdown.






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






23. 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.






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






25. Another name for carousel type milk barn.






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






27. 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.






28. Common name for nematodes.






29. Test for determination of BF% in milk.






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






31. Also known as Bacillary hemoglobinuria.






32. Wingless - flattened insects.






33. Parturient paresis.






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






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






36. Also called gas gangrene.






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






38. Most common treatment for milk fever.






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






40. Physical conformation of an animal.






41. Also known as Red Nose.






42. Number of dairy cows in the United States.






43. Common name for infectious bovine keratonconjuctivitis.






44. Hormone stimulates milk production.






45. Hormone stimulates mammary duct development.






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






47. Year Babcock Test was developed.






48. Uses DCADS to minimize incidence of _______?






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






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






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