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Dairy Cow Industry

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1. 'Barn-itch'.






2. Most common limiting nutrient for high milk yield.






3. PTAT






4. Most common treatment for milk fever.






5. The Ayrshire breed is colored ____ and white.






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






7. The dairy breed with the highest fat percentage.






8. 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.






9. Rolling herd average for U.S. dairy herd.






10. Molds which develop on feed producing toxins.






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






12. Caused by Mycobacterium bovis.






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






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






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






16. A fatal protozoan disease of cattle that destroys the red blood cells - causing anemia and death.






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






18. Metabolic Disease characterized by accessive ketone body formation.






19. Common name for papillomatous digital dermatitis.






20. Also known as Bovine genital Campylobacteriosis.






21. Optinum daylight hours for maximum milk yield.






22. Common name for interdigital phlegmon.






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






24. Standardization of lactation records to the level of yield that would have been attained by each cow if she had been a mature cow and calved in the month of the year of highest calving frequency for her breed.






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






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






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






28. Test for determination of BF% in milk.






29. Holstein Association uses ______________ as a method of ranking bulls on their overall performance.






30. Also known as Bacillary hemoglobinuria.






31. Caused by the heel fly.






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






33. Cause of cattle grubs.






34. Naturally hornless.






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






36. Also known as traumatic gastritis.






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






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






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






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






41. Also known as Red Nose.






42. Uses DCADS to minimize incidence of _______?






43. Common name for infectious bovine keratonconjuctivitis.






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






45. The oldest breed of dairy cattle.






46. Agent which destroys worms in digestive tract.






47. Cows are usually rebred at ___ days after breeding






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

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






50. Physical conformation of an animal.