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Dairy Cow Industry

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1. Casting is used as a temporary treatment of this disorder.






2. Common name for ruminal tymphany.






3. Cows are usually rebred at ___ days after breeding






4. State with the largest number of dairy cows.






5. 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.






6. Diarrhea.






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






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






9. Hormone Stimulates milk letdown.






10. Wingless - flattened insects.






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






12. Common name for interdigital phlegmon.






13. MUN is abbreviation for ___________?






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






15. Also known as acetonemia.






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






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






18. Uses DCADS to minimize incidence of _______?






19. Also known as Bovine genital Campylobacteriosis.






20. Most common limiting nutrient for high milk yield.






21. Also known as hyperkeratosis.






22. Caused by Actinomy bovis.






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






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






25. Hormone stimulates milk production.






26. Most important type trait in a dairy cow.






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






28. Another name for carousel type milk barn.






29. 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.






30. Metabolic Disease characterized by accessive ketone body formation.






31. Hormone counteracts milk letdown.






32. 'Barn-itch'.






33. The dairy breed with the highest fat percentage.






34. Parturient paresis.






35. Common name for papillomatous digital dermatitis.






36. The world record/ cow/ year for milk yield (in pounds).






37. Most commonly used test for diagnosis of Leptospirosis in cattle.






38. Also known as Red Nose.






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






40. Illawara.






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






42. Most common treatment for milk fever.






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






44. Common name for nematodes.






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






46. Common name for syndactylism.






47. Also known as Bacillary hemoglobinuria.






48. Established colleges of agriculture in each state.






49. Cause of cattle grubs.






50. Also called gas gangrene.