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Dairy Cow Industry

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1. The Ayrshire breed is colored ____ and white.






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






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






4. Also known as Bacillary hemoglobinuria.






5. The dairy breed with the highest fat percentage.






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






7. Caused by Mycobacterium bovis.






8. State with the largest number of dairy cows.






9. 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.






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






11. Naturally hornless.






12. An example of a trematode.






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






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






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






16. Recommended method for dairy cattle.






17. Physical conformation of an animal.






18. Another name for carousel type milk barn.






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






20. Optinum daylight hours for maximum milk yield.






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






22. Most common limiting nutrient for high milk yield.






23. Syndactylism.






24. Year Babcock Test was developed.






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






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






27. Normal rectal temperature of a dairy cow.






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






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






30. Established colleges of agriculture in each state.






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






32. Parturient paresis.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






40. Number of dairy cows in the United States.






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






42. Should only be used as a last resort for the treatment of ruminal tymphany.






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

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44. Caused by Actinomy bovis.






45. Metabolic Disease characterized by accessive ketone body formation.






46. Hormone Stimulates milk letdown.






47. Common name for interdigital phlegmon.






48. Also known as Red Nose.






49. Common name for syndactylism.






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