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Dairy Cow Industry

Subject : industries
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1. The dairy breed that is used mostly for milk and veal is _____






2. The common name for Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE).






3. Most common limiting nutrient for high milk yield.






4. The Ayrshire breed is colored ____ and white.






5. Four of the leading states in milk production are ___ ___ __ __






6. Normal rectal temperature of a dairy cow.






7. Common name for interdigital phlegmon.






8. Also known as Red Nose.






9. Disease characterized by pneumonia or septicemia. The highest incidence occurs in animals subjected to stress.






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






11. State producing the most milk (total pounds).






12. The main points of a dairy cow and their perspective points in juding are...






13. Also called gas gangrene.






14. Common name for syndactylism.






15. Hormone Stimulates milk letdown.






16. Physical conformation of an animal.






17. Most common treatment for milk fever.






18. Intake protein that is broken down by microorganisms in the rumen.






19. Metabolic Disease characterized by accessive ketone body formation.






20. Common name for infectious bovine keratonconjuctivitis.






21. Unulent fever in people.






22. The oldest breed of dairy cattle.






23. Parts blood must pass through the udder to produce milk.






24. Test for determination of BF% in milk.






25. MUN is abbreviation for ___________?






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






27. Wingless - flattened insects.






28. Hormone stimulates mammary duct development.






29. Milking cows are usually milked ____ days and 'dried up' ___ days before the next lactation






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






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






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






33. An example of a trematode.






34. Spores from this fatal disease can live in the soil for more than 60 years.






35. 'Barn-itch'.






36. A zoonotic disorder affecting as many as 90% of dairy farms.






37. Optinum daylight hours for maximum milk yield.






38. Mechanism that permits alternating vacuum and atmospheric pressure to exit between the teat cup liner and shell.






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






40. Naturally hornless.






41. Also known as hyperkeratosis.






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






43. Diarrhea.






44. The circumference of the body just back of the shoulders. Used to estimate body weight.






45. Caused by the heel fly.






46. Established colleges of agriculture in each state.






47. Agent which destroys worms in digestive tract.






48. Molds which develop on feed producing toxins.






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






50. Recommended method for dairy cattle.