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Dairy Cow Industry

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






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






3. Wingless - flattened insects.






4. 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.






5. Test for determination of BF% in milk.






6. Most important type trait in a dairy cow.






7. Number of dairy cows in the United States.






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






9. Common name for ruminal tymphany.






10. Common name for nematodes.






11. An example of a trematode.






12. Also known as acetonemia.






13. Uses DCADS to minimize incidence of _______?






14. Also called gas gangrene.






15. CSS stands for.






16. Caused by Actinomy bovis.






17. Illawara.






18. 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.






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






20. Another name for carousel type milk barn.






21. Also known as hyperkeratosis.






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






23. 'Barn-itch'.






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






25. The dairy breed with the highest fat percentage.






26. Physical conformation of an animal.






27. Common name for papillomatous digital dermatitis.






28. Agent which destroys worms in digestive tract.






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






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






31. Most common treatment for milk fever.






32. Syndactylism.






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






34. Also known as Bacillary hemoglobinuria.






35. Molds which develop on feed producing toxins.






36. Also known as traumatic gastritis.






37. Optinum daylight hours for maximum milk yield.






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






39. Recommended method for dairy cattle.






40. Hormone stimulates mammary duct development.






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






42. Caused by Mycobacterium bovis.






43. Naturally hornless.






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






45. PTAT






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






47. Also known as Bovine genital Campylobacteriosis.






48. Parturient paresis.






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






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