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Dairy Cow Industry

Subject : industries
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1. Caused by a deficiency of Mg in the diet.






2. Common name for syndactylism.






3. Year Babcock Test was developed.






4. Hormone stimulates milk production.






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






6. Common name for nematodes.






7. Common name for infectious bovine keratonconjuctivitis.






8. Uses DCADS to minimize incidence of _______?






9. Diarrhea.






10. PTAT






11. Hormone stimulates mammary duct development.






12. Recommended method for dairy cattle.






13. Also known as Bacillary hemoglobinuria.






14. CSS stands for.






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






16. Cows are usually rebred at ___ days after breeding






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






18. Common name for papillomatous digital dermatitis.






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






20. Physical conformation of an animal.






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






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






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






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






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






26. Cause of cattle grubs.






27. Hormone counteracts milk letdown.






28. Also known as Bovine genital Campylobacteriosis.






29. Naturally hornless.






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






31. Caused by Actinomy bovis.






32. MUN is abbreviation for ___________?






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






34. Also known as hyperkeratosis.






35. The dairy breed with the highest fat percentage.






36. Caused by Mycobacterium bovis.






37. Syndactylism.






38. Metabolic Disease characterized by accessive ketone body formation.






39. An example of a trematode.






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






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






42. Also called gas gangrene.






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






44. Test for determination of BF% in milk.






45. 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.






46. Optinum daylight hours for maximum milk yield.






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






48. 'Barn-itch'.






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






50. 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.