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Dairy Cow Industry

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






2. Common name for ruminal tymphany.






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






4. Also called gas gangrene.






5. PTAT






6. Hormone stimulates mammary duct development.






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


8. The oldest breed of dairy cattle.






9. Hormone Stimulates milk letdown.






10. 'Barn-itch'.






11. Common name for syndactylism.






12. Illawara.






13. Syndactylism.






14. 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.






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






16. Diarrhea.






17. Common name for interdigital phlegmon.






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






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






20. Most common treatment for milk fever.






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






22. Cows are usually rebred at ___ days after breeding






23. Common name for infectious bovine keratonconjuctivitis.






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






25. Number of dairy cows in the United States.






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






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






28. The Ayrshire breed is colored ____ and white.






29. An example of a trematode.






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






31. Normal rectal temperature of a dairy cow.






32. Most common limiting nutrient for high milk yield.






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






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






35. Caused by Actinomy bovis.






36. Also known as Bovine genital Campylobacteriosis.






37. MUN is abbreviation for ___________?






38. Unulent fever in people.






39. Also known as Bacillary hemoglobinuria.






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






41. Recommended method for dairy cattle.






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






43. Wingless - flattened insects.






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






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






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






47. Year Babcock Test was developed.






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






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






50. Agent which destroys worms in digestive tract.