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Dairy Industry
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industries
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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 caused by a deficiency of iodine in the diet
goiter
grass tetany
vesicular stomatitis
DIP (degraded intake protein)
2. _____ 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
epinephrine
cryptospondiosis
foot rot
DHI
3. _____ is also known as barn itch
mange
ketosis
Jersey
prolactin
4. The hormone _____ stimulates milk letdown
milk fever
oxytocin
DHI
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5. _____ 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
anthrax
mature equivalent (ME)
roundworm
milking shorthorn
6. The dairy breed with a golden yellow color to its milk is _____
cryptospondiosis
mange
Guernsey
mule foot
7. _____ parts blood must pass through the udder to produce one part milk
x disease
Israel
300-500
grass tetany
8. Casting is used as a temporary treatment of _____
400
red/mahogany
Wisconsin
displaced abomasum
9. _____ is the common name for infectious bovine keratoconjunctivitis
bloat
oxytocin
ketosis
pink eye
10. Milk is actually secreted in grapelike structures called _____
Jersey
polled
alveoli
cycle
11. _____ is an example of a trematode
TPI (type production index)
rotary
somatic
flat worm - liverflukes
12. _____ is the common name for ruminal tympany
epinephrine
aflatoxin
milk production / udders / dairiness
bloat
13. _____ is a chamber that connects the four teat cups to the milk lin e
mature equivalent (ME)
FCM
claw
certified semen services
14. The spores from the fatal disease _____ can live in the soil for more than 60 years
Jersey
anthrax
prolactane
anthometics
15. _____ is the most common limiting nutrient for high milk yield
foot rot
dairy cow unified scorecard
nutritional _____
energy
16. _____ describes an animal that has a crooked hock - which causes the lower part of the leg to be bent forward out of a normal perpendicular straight line
9.2 million
101.5
67 -914
cycle
17. Anothe rname for BSE is _____
Jersey
mad cow disease
Brown Swiss
Guernsey
18. _____ is a cuase of cattle grubs
heel fly
type
_____
lice
19. _____ is a disease characterized by pneumonia or septicemia. the highest incidence occurs in aimals subjected to stress
prolactin
mad cow
_____
1890
20. _____ is a chamber that connects the four teat cups to the milk lin e
Brown Swiss/Holstein
grass tetany
claw
anaplazmosis
21. The _____ is used by all dairy breed associations as the standard for judging and classifying cattle
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rotary
California - Arizona - Washington - Colorado
dairy cow unified scorecard
22. _____ are molds that develop on feed that produce toxins
mature equivalent (ME)
nutritional _____
mange
aflatoxin
23. An agent that destroys worms in the digestive tract is _____
9.2 million
400
anthometics
goiter
24. The period of nonlactation between two periods of lactation is called a _____ period
hairy foot warts
dry
mule foot
DHI
25. _____ is a method of feeding cows aimed at finding their potential to secrete milk and used to prevent metabolic shortage in energy
milk fever
challenge
mad cow
goiter
26. _____ is also known as traumatic gastritis
goiter
hardware disease
anthrax
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27. A metabolic disease characterized by excessive ketone body formation is _____
ketosis
California
type
ME (mature equivalent)
28. _____ is the number of dairy cows in the US
9.2 million
93 (?)
estrogen
roundworm
29. _____ is themechanism that permits alternating vacuum and atmospheric pressure to exist between the teat cup liner and shell
BHVI (bovine herpes)
barrel heart girth
DHI
pulsator
30. _____ is an infertile female calf born co-twin to a bull
Brown Swiss/Holstein
freemartin
305 50-60
correlation
31. _____ is themechanism that permits alternating vacuum and atmospheric pressure to exist between the teat cup liner and shell
9.2 million
milk fever
mature equivalent (ME)
pulsator
32. _____ is the world's record per cow for annual milk yield (in pounds)
ketosis
BHVI (bovine herpes)
67 -914
cycle
33. _____ means diarrhea
milk fever
prolactin
scours
milk fever
34. _____ is a fatal protozoan disesase of cattle that destroys the red blood cells - causing anemia and death
anaplazmosis
heel fly
BHVI (bovine herpes)
milking shorthorn
35. _____ is the common name for bovine spongiform encephalopathy
grass tetany
mad cow
mature equivalent (ME)
anthometics
36. _____ are age conversion formulas applied to milk production records of young cows to compare their milk yield with that of more mature cows
red/mahogany
land grant act
ME (mature equivalent)
estrogen
37. The mammary system of a cow is divided into _____ independent parts
somatic
challenge
4
energy
38. A count of _____ cells helps determine inflammation of the mammary gland
anthrax
somatic
AI
red/mahogany
39. _____ is the normal rectal temperature of a diary cow
101.5
rotary
displaced abomasum
300-500
40. _____ is used to regularly evaluate where an individual cow stands in body condition relative to the ideals for its stage of lactation
body condition score
trocar
oxytocin
milk production / udders / dairiness
41. _____ is also called illawara
9.2 million
milking shorthorn
Jersey
correlation
42. _____ is also called gas gangrene
malignant edema
lice
heel fly
red/mahogany
43. The dairy breed with the highes fat percentage is _____
grass tetany
bersolis
Jersey
barrel heart girth
44. _____ is also known as barn itch
sarcoptic - saroptic mange
mule foot
101.5
mange
45. _____ is the physical conformation of an animal
x disease
rotary
type
cattle grubs & hypodermosis
46. _____ is caused by a deficiency of vitamin E or Se in dairy calves
nutritional _____
displaced abomasum
polled
lice
47. _____ is caused by a deficiency of magnesium in the diet
hardware disease
tuburculosis
grass tetany
lice
48. The disorder _____ is prevented by the use of DCADs
milk fever
mule foot
aflatoxin
ketosis
49. _____ is called parturient paresis
prolactin
milk fever
grass tetany
milk production / udders / dairiness
50. _____is one of the most commonly diagnosed viruses in bovine abortion cases and is easily prevented with vaccination and improved sanitation
bovine diarrhea
dry
foot rot
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