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Dairy Cow Industry

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1. Parturient paresis.






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






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






4. CSS stands for.






5. One of the most commonly diagnosed viruses in bovine abortion cases and easily prevented with vaccination and improved sanitation.






6. Cause of cattle grubs.






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






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






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






10. Metabolic Disease characterized by accessive ketone body formation.






11. 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.






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






13. Also known as hyperkeratosis.






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






15. Recommended method for dairy cattle.






16. Hormone counteracts milk letdown.






17. Most common limiting nutrient for high milk yield.






18. Physical conformation of an animal.






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






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






21. PTAT






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






23. Also known as Bovine genital Campylobacteriosis.






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






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






26. Common name for infectious bovine keratonconjuctivitis.






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






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






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






31. Common name for nematodes.






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






33. Hormone Stimulates milk letdown.






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






35. MUN is abbreviation for ___________?






36. Also known as Bacillary hemoglobinuria.






37. Illawara.






38. Common name for interdigital phlegmon.






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






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






41. Common name for papillomatous digital dermatitis.






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






43. Cows are usually rebred at ___ days after breeding






44. The dairy breed with a golden yellow color to its milk.






45. Normal rectal temperature of a dairy cow.






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






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






48. Caused by the heel fly.






49. Uses DCADS to minimize incidence of _______?






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