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Dairy Cow Industry

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






2. CSS stands for.






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






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






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






6. Test for determination of BF% in milk.






7. Common name for ruminal tymphany.






8. Cause of cattle grubs.






9. Uses DCADS to minimize incidence of _______?






10. Unulent fever in people.






11. 'Barn-itch'.






12. Year Babcock Test was developed.






13. Common name for nematodes.






14. Wingless - flattened insects.






15. Common name for infectious bovine keratonconjuctivitis.






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






17. State with the largest number of dairy cows.






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






19. Spores from this fatal disease can live in the soil for more than 60 years.






20. Molds which develop on feed producing toxins.






21. Also called gas gangrene.






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






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






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






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






26. Common name for syndactylism.






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






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






29. Parturient paresis.






30. Hormone stimulates milk production.






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






32. 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.






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






34. Common name for interdigital phlegmon.






35. Most common limiting nutrient for high milk yield.






36. Illawara.






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






38. The oldest breed of dairy cattle.






39. Recommended method for dairy cattle.






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






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






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






43. Also known as Red Nose.






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






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






46. Caused by the heel fly.






47. Hormone counteracts milk letdown.






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






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






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