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Dairy Cow Industry
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1. Hormone counteracts milk letdown.
Sarcoptic - Saroptic
CA - AZ - WA - CO
Polled
Epinephrine
2. Molds which develop on feed producing toxins.
Myotoxins
Milking Shorthorn
Shipping Fever
60
3. Milk is actually secreted in grape-like structures called ____
Aveoli
Mad Cow Disease
Rotary
Brown Swiss
4. Wingless - flattened insects.
Brucellosis
Lice
Ketosis
101.5
5. Disease causing chronic diarrhea - weight loss resulting from infection with the bacterium Mycobacterium paratuberculosis.
6. 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.
DCUS (Dairy Cow Uniform Scorecard)
300-500
Mange
DHIA ( Dairy Herd Improvement Association)
7. The main points of a dairy cow and their perspective points in juding are...
Udders: 40 % Dairy Character: 20% Frame: 15% Feet and Legs: 15% Body Capacity: 10%
Roundworms
Lice
Ketosis
8. Spores from this fatal disease can live in the soil for more than 60 years.
Anthrax
Calcium Glucanate
Cryptosporidiosis
Brown Swiss
9. _____ and _____ are two reportable external parasites common to dairy and beef cattle.
16
Cryptosporidiosis
Sarcoptic - Saroptic
Foot Rot
10. Also known as Bacillary hemoglobinuria.
Freemartin
Myotoxins
Red Water Disease
Prolactin
11. Physical conformation of an animal.
BST (Bovine Somatotropin)
AI
Milk Fever
Type
12. Is the nation with the highest producing dairy cows.
Brucellosis
Milk Fever
Israel
Vibriosis
13. Caused by a deficiency of Mg in the diet.
Body Conditioning Score
Brucellosis
Foot Rot
Grass Tetany
14. Test for determination of BF% in milk.
Holstein
Babcock
Prolactin
Shipping Fever
15. The dairy breed with a golden yellow color to its milk.
Israel
Guernsey
Claw
1890
16. The world record/ cow/ year for milk yield (in pounds).
Foot Rot
67 -914
Claw
Ketosis
17. Recommended method for dairy cattle.
Anaplasmosis
Goiter
AI
1890
18. The common name for Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE).
Johne's
Wisconsin
Dry
Mad Cow Disease
19. Viral disorder that causes lesions indistinguishable from those of foot-and-mouth disease.
DHI Records
Vesicular Stromatitis
AI
Correlation
20. Casting is used as a temporary treatment of this disorder.
Lice
Displaced Abomasum
Brucellosis
Certified Semen Services
21. Hormone stimulates an increase of up to 20% more milk with only 5% more feed.
Bloat
BST (Bovine Somatotropin)
Goiter
Cryptosporidiosis
22. Caused by Mycobacterium bovis.
Polled
Tuberculosis
Myotoxins
Lumpy Jaw
23. Method of feeding cows aimed at finding their potential to secrete milk and used to prevent metabolic shortage in energy.
Malignant Edema
Degraded Intake Protein
AI
Challenge
24. PTAT
Aveoli
Predicting Transmitting Ability Trait
Johne's
Hairy Foot Wart
25. Cows are usually rebred at ___ days after breeding
300-500
Prolactin
60
Johne's
26. The mammary system of a cow is divided into ___ independent parts.
FCM (Fat Corrected Milk)
Cryptosporidiosis
4
9 -200 -000
27. Age conversion formulas applied to milk production of young cows to compare their milk yield with more mature cows.
Rotary
Heel Fly
Oxytocin
Mature Equivalent
28. Normal rectal temperature of a dairy cow.
DCUS (Dairy Cow Uniform Scorecard)
Degraded Intake Protein
Anthrax
101.5
29. Also known as Bovine genital Campylobacteriosis.
Malignant Edema
4
Vibriosis
Guernsey
30. Used to regularly evaluate where an individual cow stands in body condition relative to the ideals for her stage in lactation.
305 - 60
Body Conditioning Score
Sickle
Malignant Edema
31. Parturient paresis.
Aveoli
Ketosis
Milk Fever
Holstein
32. Caused by Actinomy bovis.
Lumpy Jaw
Liver Fluke
Udders: 40 % Dairy Character: 20% Frame: 15% Feet and Legs: 15% Body Capacity: 10%
Cryptosporidiosis
33. Hormone stimulates milk production.
Milk Fever
Jersey
Challenge
Prolactin
34. Stiff Lamb - Nutritional Muscular Dystrophy - Caused by a defficiency of Vitamin E or Selenium in dairy calves.
FCM (Fat Corrected Milk)
Milk Fever
White Muscle Disease
DHI Records
35. CSS stands for.
Bovine Herpes Infectious Virus
Estrogen
Anthrometics
Certified Semen Services
36. Rolling herd average for U.S. dairy herd.
Hairy Foot Wart
Malignant Edema
Bovine Viral Disease
2 -180
37. 'Barn-itch'.
Anthrometics
Mange
X Disease
Brucellosis
38. Most common treatment for milk fever.
Energy
Type Production Index
Calcium Glucanate
Heel Fly
39. Common name for interdigital phlegmon.
16
Freemartin
Type
Foot Rot
40. Common name for nematodes.
Brown Swiss
Mad Cow Disease
Bovine Viral Disease
Roundworms
41. Agent which destroys worms in digestive tract.
Anthrometics
X Disease
Polled
Cryptosporidiosis
42. The ____ is used by all dairy cattle breed associations as the standard for judging and classifying cattle
300-500
Grass Tetany
DCUS (Dairy Cow Uniform Scorecard)
Prolactin
43. Common name for papillomatous digital dermatitis.
16
Hairy Foot Wart
4
Prolactin
44. Year Babcock Test was developed.
Milk Fever
1890
Babcock
Brown Swiss
45. Disease characterized by pneumonia or septicemia. The highest incidence occurs in animals subjected to stress.
Mad Cow Disease
Shipping Fever
Certified Semen Services
Holstein
46. An example of a trematode.
300-500
Vibriosis
Barrel Heart Girth
Liver Fluke
47. State producing the most milk (total pounds).
Brucellosis
California
Milk Fever
Goiter
48. Illawara.
60
Milking Shorthorn
Grass Tetany
Mature Equivalent
49. Number of dairy cows in the United States.
Foot Rot
Microscopic Agglutination Test
9 -200 -000
Milk Fever
50. Caused by a deficiency of iodine in the diet.
Milk Fever
Goiter
Red
Johne's