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Dairy Cow Industry

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1. Also known as hyperkeratosis.






2. Physical conformation of an animal.






3. An example of a trematode.






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






5. 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.






6. Agent which destroys worms in digestive tract.






7. Wingless - flattened insects.






8. The dairy breed with the highest fat percentage.






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






10. Also known as Bovine genital Campylobacteriosis.






11. Year Babcock Test was developed.






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






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






14. Metabolic Disease characterized by accessive ketone body formation.






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






16. Also known as Bacillary hemoglobinuria.






17. Diarrhea.






18. Also known as traumatic gastritis.






19. PTAT






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. Caused by a deficiency of iodine in the diet.






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






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






24. MUN is abbreviation for ___________?






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






26. Hormone stimulates milk production.






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






28. The oldest breed of dairy cattle.






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






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


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






32. The Ayrshire breed is colored ____ and white.






33. Most common treatment for milk fever.






34. Caused by the heel fly.






35. Parturient paresis.






36. 'Barn-itch'.






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






38. Also called gas gangrene.






39. Most common limiting nutrient for high milk yield.






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






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






42. Also known as Red Nose.






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






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






45. State with the largest number of dairy cows.






46. Common name for ruminal tymphany.






47. Hormone counteracts milk letdown.






48. Normal rectal temperature of a dairy cow.






49. Common name for papillomatous digital dermatitis.






50. Naturally hornless.