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Dairy Cow Industry
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1. A zoonotic disorder affecting as many as 90% of dairy farms.
Land-Grant Act
Roundworms
Cryptosporidiosis
Brucellosis
2. 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.
DHIA ( Dairy Herd Improvement Association)
Energy
Anthrometics
Johne's
3. Syndactylism.
Mule Foot
Prolactin
Vesicular Stromatitis
Wisconsin
4. Physical conformation of an animal.
Lice
Dry
1890
Type
5. Disease causing chronic diarrhea - weight loss resulting from infection with the bacterium Mycobacterium paratuberculosis.
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6. Period of non-lactation between two periods of lactation.
Dry
Ketosis
Claw
Cattle Grubs
7. Common name for papillomatous digital dermatitis.
Babcock
Dry
Lice
Hairy Foot Wart
8. The dairy breed that is used mostly for milk and veal is _____
Holstein
Bovine Viral Disease
Sickle
Epinephrine
9. Common name for syndactylism.
Displaced Abomasum
Mule Foot
2 -180
1890
10. Used to regularly evaluate where an individual cow stands in body condition relative to the ideals for her stage in lactation.
Sarcoptic - Saroptic
300-500
Land-Grant Act
Body Conditioning Score
11. Wingless - flattened insects.
Lumpy Jaw
Wisconsin
Lice
101.5
12. Number of dairy cows in the United States.
Somatic
Johne's
9 -200 -000
60
13. Milk is actually secreted in grape-like structures called ____
Correlation
Tuberculosis
CA - AZ - WA - CO
Aveoli
14. Disease characterized by pneumonia or septicemia. The highest incidence occurs in animals subjected to stress.
Energy
DCUS (Dairy Cow Uniform Scorecard)
Bovine Viral Disease
Shipping Fever
15. 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.
Sickle
Foot Rot
Land-Grant Act
Dry
16. Holstein Association uses ______________ as a method of ranking bulls on their overall performance.
Type Production Index
Certified Semen Services
Barrel Heart Girth
1890
17. Mechanism that permits alternating vacuum and atmospheric pressure to exit between the teat cup liner and shell.
Calcium Glucanate
Pulsator
Grass Tetany
California
18. Also known as Red Nose.
Bovine Herpes Infectious Virus
Dry
Freemartin
Red
19. Parts blood must pass through the udder to produce milk.
Brown Swiss
DHI Records
Type
300-500
20. The oldest breed of dairy cattle.
Brown Swiss
Epinephrine
Mange
Lice
21. Count of ____ cells helps determine inflammation of the mammary gland
Anthrax
Ketosis
Somatic
60
22. Rolling herd average for U.S. dairy herd.
2 -180
Type Production Index
9 -200 -000
Correlation
23. Common name for ruminal tymphany.
Bloat
1890
Shipping Fever
Brucellosis
24. The mammary system of a cow is divided into ___ independent parts.
Anaplasmosis
4
Red
Grass Tetany
25. Another name for carousel type milk barn.
FCM (Fat Corrected Milk)
Rotary
67 -914
Goiter
26. Most important type trait in a dairy cow.
Udders
Estrogen
BST (Bovine Somatotropin)
Calcium Glucanate
27. Most common treatment for milk fever.
Somatic
Johne's
Dry
Calcium Glucanate
28. An infertile female calf born co-twin to a bull.
Freemartin
Guernsey
Israel
Estrogen
29. The circumference of the body just back of the shoulders. Used to estimate body weight.
Tuberculosis
X Disease
Estrogen
Barrel Heart Girth
30. Should only be used as a last resort for the treatment of ruminal tymphany.
Pulsator
Trocar
Aveoli
Jersey
31. State with the largest number of dairy cows.
1890
Freemartin
X Disease
Wisconsin
32. The ____ is used by all dairy cattle breed associations as the standard for judging and classifying cattle
Somatic
DCUS (Dairy Cow Uniform Scorecard)
DHIA ( Dairy Herd Improvement Association)
305 - 60
33. Caused by Actinomy bovis.
Claw
Vibriosis
Lumpy Jaw
16
34. A fatal protozoan disease of cattle that destroys the red blood cells - causing anemia and death.
Anaplasmosis
Claw
Sarcoptic - Saroptic
Milk Fever
35. Is the nation with the highest producing dairy cows.
Malignant Edema
Israel
9 -200 -000
Babcock
36. Also known as traumatic gastritis.
Hardware Disease
Dry
Type Production Index
Anthrometics
37. Casting is used as a temporary treatment of this disorder.
Tuberculosis
Barrel Heart Girth
Brown Swiss
Displaced Abomasum
38. Hormone stimulates milk production.
Prolactin
Ketosis
Land-Grant Act
AI
39. Age conversion formulas applied to milk production of young cows to compare their milk yield with more mature cows.
California
1890
Mature Equivalent
Grass Tetany
40. The dairy breed with the highest fat percentage.
Degraded Intake Protein
Grass Tetany
Jersey
Mad Cow Disease
41. Method of feeding cows aimed at finding their potential to secrete milk and used to prevent metabolic shortage in energy.
Liver Fluke
Udders: 40 % Dairy Character: 20% Frame: 15% Feet and Legs: 15% Body Capacity: 10%
Challenge
Milk Urea Nitrogen
42. Caused by Mycobacterium bovis.
Type Production Index
Epinephrine
Tuberculosis
Malignant Edema
43. Common name for infectious bovine keratonconjuctivitis.
Pinkeye
Mange
Mad Cow Disease
Sickle
44. Tendency of two or more traits to vary in the same direction or in opposite directions due to common forces or influences.
Milking Shorthorn
Correlation
Oxytocin
Bloat
45. Caused by a deficiency of Mg in the diet.
Prolactin
Grass Tetany
DHIA ( Dairy Herd Improvement Association)
Sarcoptic - Saroptic
46. 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.
Milk Fever
Myotoxins
Roundworms
DHI Records
47. Agent which destroys worms in digestive tract.
Vibriosis
Anthrometics
Mange
Guernsey
48. Uses DCADS to minimize incidence of _______?
Milk Fever
Land-Grant Act
Milking Shorthorn
Sarcoptic - Saroptic
49. The dairy breed with a golden yellow color to its milk.
Cryptosporidiosis
Guernsey
Oxytocin
Udders: 40 % Dairy Character: 20% Frame: 15% Feet and Legs: 15% Body Capacity: 10%
50. Stiff Lamb - Nutritional Muscular Dystrophy - Caused by a defficiency of Vitamin E or Selenium in dairy calves.
Babcock
9 -200 -000
Freemartin
White Muscle Disease