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Dairy Cow Industry

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1. Unulent fever in people.






2. 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.






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






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






5. Illawara.






6. Parturient paresis.






7. 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.






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






9. Also known as Red Nose.






10. Also called gas gangrene.






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






12. The oldest breed of dairy cattle.






13. Number of dairy cows in the United States.






14. Common name for ruminal tymphany.






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






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






17. Caused by the heel fly.






18. Another name for carousel type milk barn.






19. Caused by Mycobacterium bovis.






20. Also known as traumatic gastritis.






21. Common name for papillomatous digital dermatitis.






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






23. Common name for nematodes.






24. Diarrhea.






25. PTAT






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






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






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






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






30. Common name for infectious bovine keratonconjuctivitis.






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






32. Period of non-lactation between two periods of lactation.






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






34. Year Babcock Test was developed.






35. Recommended method for dairy cattle.






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






37. Most common limiting nutrient for high milk yield.






38. Common name for syndactylism.






39. Physical conformation of an animal.






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






41. Caused by Actinomy bovis.






42. Common name for interdigital phlegmon.






43. Hormone counteracts milk letdown.






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






45. Hormone stimulates mammary duct development.






46. Most important type trait in a dairy cow.






47. Syndactylism.






48. A chamber that connects the four teat cups to the milk line.






49. Optinum daylight hours for maximum milk yield.






50. Uses DCADS to minimize incidence of _______?