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Dairy Cow Industry

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






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






3. Cause of cattle grubs.






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






5. 'Barn-itch'.






6. Common name for syndactylism.






7. The Ayrshire breed is colored ____ and white.






8. Most important type trait in a dairy cow.






9. Syndactylism.






10. Also known as acetonemia.






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






12. Common name for nematodes.






13. Test for determination of BF% in milk.






14. MUN is abbreviation for ___________?






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






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






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






18. Recommended method for dairy cattle.






19. State with the largest number of dairy cows.






20. 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.






21. Naturally hornless.






22. Common name for infectious bovine keratonconjuctivitis.






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






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






25. Hormone counteracts milk letdown.






26. Common name for ruminal tymphany.






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






28. Parturient paresis.






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






30. Caused by the heel fly.






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






32. Hormone Stimulates milk letdown.






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






34. PTAT






35. Uses DCADS to minimize incidence of _______?






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






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






38. Stiff Lamb - Nutritional Muscular Dystrophy - Caused by a defficiency of Vitamin E or Selenium in dairy calves.






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






40. Caused by Mycobacterium bovis.






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






42. The dairy breed with the highest fat percentage.






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






44. Optinum daylight hours for maximum milk yield.






45. Number of dairy cows in the United States.






46. 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.






47. Metabolic Disease characterized by accessive ketone body formation.






48. Year Babcock Test was developed.






49. Diarrhea.






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