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Dairy Cow Industry
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1. Holstein Association uses ______________ as a method of ranking bulls on their overall performance.
Type
Hardware Disease
Mule Foot
Type Production Index
2. Optinum daylight hours for maximum milk yield.
Polled
Sarcoptic - Saroptic
Milk Urea Nitrogen
16
3. Syndactylism.
Mule Foot
Mad Cow Disease
Calcium Glucanate
Bloat
4. Established colleges of agriculture in each state.
Goiter
300-500
Epinephrine
Land-Grant Act
5. An example of a trematode.
Mule Foot
67 -914
Liver Fluke
BST (Bovine Somatotropin)
6. Common name for nematodes.
Roundworms
Lumpy Jaw
Polled
Foot Rot
7. Hormone stimulates milk production.
Udders
Hardware Disease
Freemartin
Prolactin
8. A zoonotic disorder affecting as many as 90% of dairy farms.
Cryptosporidiosis
Microscopic Agglutination Test
Somatic
X Disease
9. Stiff Lamb - Nutritional Muscular Dystrophy - Caused by a defficiency of Vitamin E or Selenium in dairy calves.
White Muscle Disease
Prolactin
Lice
Red
10. Cows are usually rebred at ___ days after breeding
60
Goiter
Displaced Abomasum
Barrel Heart Girth
11. One of the most commonly diagnosed viruses in bovine abortion cases and easily prevented with vaccination and improved sanitation.
Bovine Viral Disease
Correlation
Polled
Land-Grant Act
12. Also known as acetonemia.
16
Predicting Transmitting Ability Trait
Tuberculosis
Ketosis
13. Mechanism that permits alternating vacuum and atmospheric pressure to exit between the teat cup liner and shell.
Degraded Intake Protein
Epinephrine
Pulsator
Aveoli
14. The world record/ cow/ year for milk yield (in pounds).
DHI Records
Land-Grant Act
Anaplasmosis
67 -914
15. Period of non-lactation between two periods of lactation.
Dry
Grass Tetany
Type
Estrogen
16. Count of ____ cells helps determine inflammation of the mammary gland
Milk Fever
Freemartin
67 -914
Somatic
17. A chamber that connects the four teat cups to the milk line.
Epinephrine
Barrel Heart Girth
Claw
Energy
18. Milk is actually secreted in grape-like structures called ____
Milk Fever
Jersey
Somatic
Aveoli
19. 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.
Shipping Fever
DHIA ( Dairy Herd Improvement Association)
Bovine Viral Disease
9 -200 -000
20. Common name for infectious bovine keratonconjuctivitis.
Goiter
Mature Equivalent
Calcium Glucanate
Pinkeye
21. Most common treatment for milk fever.
Grass Tetany
Calcium Glucanate
Degraded Intake Protein
Milk Fever
22. Milking cows are usually milked ____ days and 'dried up' ___ days before the next lactation
Milk Fever
305 - 60
Sarcoptic - Saroptic
Barrel Heart Girth
23. State with the largest number of dairy cows.
AI
Wisconsin
Red Water Disease
Aveoli
24. The mammary system of a cow is divided into ___ independent parts.
4
Mature Equivalent
Jersey
Polled
25. Also known as Red Nose.
Bovine Herpes Infectious Virus
Calcium Glucanate
Rotary
2 -180
26. Common name for syndactylism.
Mule Foot
Microscopic Agglutination Test
1890
Mange
27. Also known as traumatic gastritis.
Cattle Grubs
Hardware Disease
Red
60
28. Most common limiting nutrient for high milk yield.
California
Energy
Udders: 40 % Dairy Character: 20% Frame: 15% Feet and Legs: 15% Body Capacity: 10%
Jersey
29. The common name for Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE).
Brucellosis
Aveoli
Land-Grant Act
Mad Cow Disease
30. 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.
Liver Fluke
DHI Records
Ketosis
Brucellosis
31. PTAT
Type
Predicting Transmitting Ability Trait
Mule Foot
60
32. Intake protein that is broken down by microorganisms in the rumen.
CA - AZ - WA - CO
Degraded Intake Protein
Liver Fluke
Prolactin
33. Spores from this fatal disease can live in the soil for more than 60 years.
Dry
1890
Liver Fluke
Anthrax
34. Illawara.
Mule Foot
Milking Shorthorn
Vesicular Stromatitis
Vibriosis
35. Agent which destroys worms in digestive tract.
Grass Tetany
Jersey
Anthrometics
Correlation
36. MUN is abbreviation for ___________?
Land-Grant Act
AI
Correlation
Milk Urea Nitrogen
37. Casting is used as a temporary treatment of this disorder.
Goiter
BST (Bovine Somatotropin)
Displaced Abomasum
Anthrometics
38. Recommended method for dairy cattle.
AI
Energy
Prolactin
Pulsator
39. Four of the leading states in milk production are ___ ___ __ __
CA - AZ - WA - CO
Milk Urea Nitrogen
Pinkeye
Red Water Disease
40. _____ and _____ are two reportable external parasites common to dairy and beef cattle.
Sarcoptic - Saroptic
Malignant Edema
Certified Semen Services
Correlation
41. Normal rectal temperature of a dairy cow.
Milking Shorthorn
Bovine Herpes Infectious Virus
101.5
Certified Semen Services
42. Should only be used as a last resort for the treatment of ruminal tymphany.
Prolactin
Scours
101.5
Trocar
43. Also known as Bovine genital Campylobacteriosis.
Vibriosis
Ketosis
Calcium Glucanate
Energy
44. Tendency of two or more traits to vary in the same direction or in opposite directions due to common forces or influences.
Udders: 40 % Dairy Character: 20% Frame: 15% Feet and Legs: 15% Body Capacity: 10%
Mature Equivalent
Correlation
Degraded Intake Protein
45. Another name for carousel type milk barn.
California
Rotary
Jersey
DHI Records
46. Is the nation with the highest producing dairy cows.
Hardware Disease
CA - AZ - WA - CO
Israel
BST (Bovine Somatotropin)
47. Adjustment of milk with different fat percentages to equivalent amounts on an energy basis.
FCM (Fat Corrected Milk)
Red Water Disease
DHI Records
Lumpy Jaw
48. Caused by a deficiency of iodine in the diet.
Goiter
Udders: 40 % Dairy Character: 20% Frame: 15% Feet and Legs: 15% Body Capacity: 10%
Bloat
DHI Records
49. Most important type trait in a dairy cow.
Udders
Sickle
Certified Semen Services
Grass Tetany
50. Parturient paresis.
Milk Fever
Freemartin
Mange
Ketosis