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Dairy Cow Industry
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Common name for ruminal tymphany.
Myotoxins
Bloat
California
Liver Fluke
2. Parturient paresis.
Milk Fever
Type Production Index
Trocar
Liver Fluke
3. The dairy breed with the highest fat percentage.
Jersey
Certified Semen Services
Energy
Trocar
4. Should only be used as a last resort for the treatment of ruminal tymphany.
Jersey
Milking Shorthorn
Shipping Fever
Trocar
5. Disease characterized by pneumonia or septicemia. The highest incidence occurs in animals subjected to stress.
Bovine Herpes Infectious Virus
Lumpy Jaw
Shipping Fever
Bovine Viral Disease
6. 'Barn-itch'.
Mature Equivalent
Mange
Land-Grant Act
Oxytocin
7. Illawara.
Malignant Edema
Milking Shorthorn
Body Conditioning Score
Wisconsin
8. Hormone Stimulates milk letdown.
CA - AZ - WA - CO
Shipping Fever
Oxytocin
Jersey
9. Syndactylism.
Anthrometics
Babcock
Body Conditioning Score
Mule Foot
10. Caused by Actinomy bovis.
Liver Fluke
305 - 60
Lumpy Jaw
Milk Fever
11. Mechanism that permits alternating vacuum and atmospheric pressure to exit between the teat cup liner and shell.
Pulsator
Rotary
Anthrax
Barrel Heart Girth
12. Caused by a deficiency of iodine in the diet.
Foot Rot
Goiter
Epinephrine
Sarcoptic - Saroptic
13. Also known as acetonemia.
Ketosis
Pinkeye
Milk Fever
Mule Foot
14. Most important type trait in a dairy cow.
Udders
Certified Semen Services
Prolactin
Epinephrine
15. 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.
DHIA ( Dairy Herd Improvement Association)
Claw
Scours
White Muscle Disease
16. Also known as Bovine genital Campylobacteriosis.
Lumpy Jaw
Vibriosis
Certified Semen Services
Bloat
17. Also known as Bacillary hemoglobinuria.
Red Water Disease
9 -200 -000
Holstein
Brown Swiss
18. Hormone stimulates milk production.
Predicting Transmitting Ability Trait
Type
Grass Tetany
Prolactin
19. Also known as hyperkeratosis.
DHI Records
Ketosis
X Disease
Somatic
20. Physical conformation of an animal.
Claw
Cattle Grubs
White Muscle Disease
Type
21. Optinum daylight hours for maximum milk yield.
Mature Equivalent
16
Hardware Disease
Hairy Foot Wart
22. Milk is actually secreted in grape-like structures called ____
Mange
BST (Bovine Somatotropin)
AI
Aveoli
23. State with the largest number of dairy cows.
Wisconsin
AI
Lice
Hairy Foot Wart
24. Age conversion formulas applied to milk production of young cows to compare their milk yield with more mature cows.
Mature Equivalent
Pulsator
Lumpy Jaw
Displaced Abomasum
25. Intake protein that is broken down by microorganisms in the rumen.
DCUS (Dairy Cow Uniform Scorecard)
Degraded Intake Protein
Myotoxins
Sickle
26. CSS stands for.
AI
Certified Semen Services
Jersey
300-500
27. Metabolic Disease characterized by accessive ketone body formation.
Predicting Transmitting Ability Trait
Ketosis
Body Conditioning Score
Brucellosis
28. An example of a trematode.
Liver Fluke
Predicting Transmitting Ability Trait
Brown Swiss
305 - 60
29. Naturally hornless.
Cryptosporidiosis
Claw
Polled
Guernsey
30. A fatal protozoan disease of cattle that destroys the red blood cells - causing anemia and death.
Rotary
Anaplasmosis
DHI Records
Goiter
31. Milking cows are usually milked ____ days and 'dried up' ___ days before the next lactation
Udders
101.5
Type Production Index
305 - 60
32. Molds which develop on feed producing toxins.
Wisconsin
Myotoxins
Holstein
Malignant Edema
33. Parts blood must pass through the udder to produce milk.
Scours
Somatic
300-500
67 -914
34. MUN is abbreviation for ___________?
Milk Urea Nitrogen
Displaced Abomasum
1890
Rotary
35. The mammary system of a cow is divided into ___ independent parts.
Brucellosis
4
Israel
California
36. Uses DCADS to minimize incidence of _______?
Red Water Disease
Rotary
Challenge
Milk Fever
37. Common name for papillomatous digital dermatitis.
Bovine Viral Disease
Milk Fever
Hairy Foot Wart
Degraded Intake Protein
38. One of the most commonly diagnosed viruses in bovine abortion cases and easily prevented with vaccination and improved sanitation.
Milk Fever
Bovine Viral Disease
Brown Swiss
Grass Tetany
39. 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.
67 -914
Sickle
Mature Equivalent
Ketosis
40. The dairy breed with a golden yellow color to its milk.
White Muscle Disease
Guernsey
Lumpy Jaw
Freemartin
41. A chamber that connects the four teat cups to the milk line.
Claw
BST (Bovine Somatotropin)
Land-Grant Act
Guernsey
42. Agent which destroys worms in digestive tract.
Trocar
Israel
Anthrometics
Estrogen
43. Method of feeding cows aimed at finding their potential to secrete milk and used to prevent metabolic shortage in energy.
Anthrax
Challenge
Certified Semen Services
Sarcoptic - Saroptic
44. PTAT
Barrel Heart Girth
Predicting Transmitting Ability Trait
Foot Rot
16
45. Caused by the heel fly.
Jersey
Cattle Grubs
Rotary
BST (Bovine Somatotropin)
46. A zoonotic disorder affecting as many as 90% of dairy farms.
Cryptosporidiosis
Shipping Fever
Udders
Bloat
47. The ____ is used by all dairy cattle breed associations as the standard for judging and classifying cattle
305 - 60
Dry
DCUS (Dairy Cow Uniform Scorecard)
FCM (Fat Corrected Milk)
48. Hormone counteracts milk letdown.
Vesicular Stromatitis
Epinephrine
Sarcoptic - Saroptic
Prolactin
49. Rolling herd average for U.S. dairy herd.
Anthrometics
2 -180
Cryptosporidiosis
Prolactin
50. Another name for carousel type milk barn.
Microscopic Agglutination Test
BST (Bovine Somatotropin)
Dry
Rotary