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Dairy Industry
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dairy
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. _____ is a zoonotic disorder that affects as many as 90% of dairy farms by this parasitic organism
cryptospondiosis
roundworm
freemartin
67 -914
2. The tendency of two or more traits that vary in the same direction or in opposite directions due to common forces or influences is known as _____
vibriosis
milking shorthorn
red/mahogany
correlation
3. The oldest breed of dairy cattle is _____
bloat
Brown Swiss
milk production / udders / dairiness
cryptospondiosis
4. _____ is caused by Mycobacterium bovis
pulsator
tuburculosis
milk fever
Brown Swiss
5. _____ is themechanism that permits alternating vacuum and atmospheric pressure to exist between the teat cup liner and shell
displaced abomasum
pulsator
bersolis
correlation
6. _____ is the common name for bovine spongiform encephalopathy
x disease
mad cow
alveoli
freemartin
7. PTAT is the abbreviation for _____
polled
anthrax
predicting transmitting ability type
x disease
8. _____ parts blood must pass through the udder to produce one part milk
nutritional _____
flat worm - liverflukes
pink eye
300-500
9. _____ are wingless - flattened insects
dry
lice
vesicular stomatitis
prolactane
10. _____ was the year the babcock test was developed
vesicular stomatitis
cattle grubs & hypodermosis
grass tetany
1890
11. A count of _____ cells helps determine inflammation of the mammary gland
300-500
type
somatic
_____ _____ nitrogen
12. _____ is the most common limiting nutrient for high milk yield
bloat
energy
flat worm - liverflukes
anaplazmosis
13. An agent that destroys worms in the digestive tract is _____
Guernsey
freemartin
anthometics
estrogen
14. _____ is adjustment of milk with different fat percentages to equivalent amounts on an energy basis
FCM
claw
bovine diarrhea
grass tetany
15. _____ is an association that dairy farmers join to participate in its record-keeping and management plans and is operated jointly by the USDA and state college of agriculture of land grant universities
milk fever
hardware disease
DHI
mad cow
16. Four of the leading states in milk production are _____ - _____ - _____ and _____
mad cow
ketosis
9.2 million
California - Arizona - Washington - Colorado
17. _____ is the most commonly used test for diagnosis of leptospirosis in cattle
vesicular stomatitis
mule foot
microscopic e test
body condition score
18. MUN is an abbreviation for _____
_____ _____ nitrogen
Brown Swiss/Holstein
red/mahogany
hairy foot warts
19. _____ is the standardization of lactation records to the level of yield that would have been attained by each cow if it had been a mature cow and calved in the month of the year of highest calving frequency for its breed
mature equivalent (ME)
9.2 million
BHVI (bovine herpes)
correlation
20. _____ is a viral disorder that causes lesions indistinguishable from those of foot-and-mouth disease
flat worm - liverflukes
body condition score
x disease
vesicular stomatitis
21. _____ is a viral disorder that causes lesions indistinguishable from those of foot-and-mouth disease
cryptospondiosis
a) frame = 15% b) dairy character = 20% c) body capacity = 10% d) feet and legs = 15% e) udders = 40%
vesicular stomatitis
babcock
22. The mammary system of a cow is divided into _____ independent parts
land grant act
milk fever
4
type
23. _____ is caused by a deficiency of magnesium in the diet
correlation
milk fever
mature equivalent (ME)
grass tetany
24. _____ is called parturient paresis
alveoli
milk fever
land grant act
lice
25. _____ is also known as traumatic gastritis
hardware disease
energy
foot rot
pulsator
26. _____ is the recommended breeding method for dairy cattle
cycle
barrel heart girth
AI
aflatoxin
27. _____ is also known as syndactylism
mule foot
101.5
aflatoxin
claw
28. _____ is an infertile female calf born co-twin to a bull
4
freemartin
AI
certified semen services
29. _____ is also known as barn itch
epinephrine
body condition score
mange
barrel heart girth
30. _____ is an example of a trematode
93 (?)
93 (?)
red/mahogany
flat worm - liverflukes
31. The Holstein Association uses _____ as a method of ranking bulls on their overall performance
101.5
TPI (type production index)
babcock
1890
32. _____ is the most common treatment for milk fever
somatic
BST
calcium gluconate
California
33. Milk is actually secreted in grapelike structures called _____
alveoli
DIP (degraded intake protein)
16
vibriosis
34. _____ is the world's record per cow for annual milk yield (in pounds)
babcock
milk fever
body condition score
67 -914
35. _____ is also called illawara
milking shorthorn
goiter
foot rot
a) frame = 15% b) dairy character = 20% c) body capacity = 10% d) feet and legs = 15% e) udders = 40%
36. The hormone _____ counteracts milk letdown
nutritional _____
epinephrine
predicting transmitting ability type
calcium gluconate
37. _____ is the number of dairy cows in the US
babcock
dry
16
9.2 million
38. The hormone _____ stimulates an increase of up to 20% more milk with only 5% more feed
BST
bovine diarrhea
DIP (degraded intake protein)
93 (?)
39. _____ is caused by a deficiency of iodine in the diet
goiter
bovine diarrhea
FCM
Jersey
40. _____ is a cuase of cattle grubs
displaced abomasum
Brown Swiss
Johne's
heel fly
41. _____ is also known as bacillary hemoglobinuria
ME (mature equivalent)
4
red water
microscopic e test
42. The Ayrshire breed is colored _____
red/mahogany
milk fever
tuburculosis
red water
43. The _____ is used by all dairy breed associations as the standard for judging and classifying cattle
dairy cow unified scorecard
grass tetany
lice
goiter
44. _____ means naturally hornless
California - Arizona - Washington - Colorado
polled
malignant edema
DIP (degraded intake protein)
45. The disorder _____ is prevented by the use of DCADs
cattle grubs & hypodermosis
milk fever
mature equivalent (ME)
tuburculosis
46. _____ is the circumference of the body just back of the shoulders of an animal; used to estimate body weight
estrogen
barrel heart girth
polled
1890
47. _____ is the common name for infectious bovine keratoconjunctivitis
certified semen services
red water
pink eye
bloat
48. _____ causes undulant fever in people
bersolis
_____
dry
Israel
49. _____ is also known as syndactylism
mule foot
tuburculosis
red/mahogany
vibriosis
50. _____ is the normal rectal temperature of a diary cow
prolactane
somatic
foot rot
101.5