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Dairy Cow Industry

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






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






3. The dairy breed with the highest fat percentage.






4. Caused by Actinomy bovis.






5. Method of feeding cows aimed at finding their potential to secrete milk and used to prevent metabolic shortage in energy.






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






7. Also known as Bacillary hemoglobinuria.






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






9. State with the largest number of dairy cows.






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






11. Also known as acetonemia.






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






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






14. Year Babcock Test was developed.






15. The dairy breed that is used mostly for milk and veal is _____






16. Normal rectal temperature of a dairy cow.






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






18. Illawara.






19. Wingless - flattened insects.






20. 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.






21. _____ and _____ are two reportable external parasites common to dairy and beef cattle.






22. Physical conformation of an animal.






23. Is the nation with the highest producing dairy cows.






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






25. Disease causing chronic diarrhea - weight loss resulting from infection with the bacterium Mycobacterium paratuberculosis.

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26. The Ayrshire breed is colored ____ and white.






27. PTAT






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






29. Also known as hyperkeratosis.






30. Cows are usually rebred at ___ days after breeding






31. Caused by the heel fly.






32. Caused by a deficiency of iodine in the diet.






33. Uses DCADS to minimize incidence of _______?






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






35. Common name for interdigital phlegmon.






36. Hormone counteracts milk letdown.






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






38. 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.






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






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






41. An example of a trematode.






42. Another name for carousel type milk barn.






43. Optinum daylight hours for maximum milk yield.






44. Caused by a deficiency of Mg in the diet.






45. Common name for ruminal tymphany.






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






47. The oldest breed of dairy cattle.






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






49. The dairy breed with a golden yellow color to its milk.






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