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Dairy Cow Industry

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






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






3. Agent which destroys worms in digestive tract.






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






5. 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.






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






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






8. Common name for ruminal tymphany.






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






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






11. Physical conformation of an animal.






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






13. Illawara.






14. Recommended method for dairy cattle.






15. Hormone Stimulates milk letdown.






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






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






18. 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.






19. State with the largest number of dairy cows.






20. Another name for carousel type milk barn.






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






22. Holstein Association uses ______________ as a method of ranking bulls on their overall performance.






23. Year Babcock Test was developed.






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






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






26. Cows are usually rebred at ___ days after breeding






27. Common name for syndactylism.






28. Caused by the heel fly.






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






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






31. Caused by Actinomy bovis.






32. Molds which develop on feed producing toxins.






33. Metabolic Disease characterized by accessive ketone body formation.






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






35. Hormone stimulates milk production.






36. Established colleges of agriculture in each state.






37. Common name for interdigital phlegmon.






38. Also called gas gangrene.






39. Most common limiting nutrient for high milk yield.






40. Most important type trait in a dairy cow.






41. PTAT






42. Age conversion formulas applied to milk production of young cows to compare their milk yield with more mature cows.






43. An example of a trematode.






44. Also known as acetonemia.






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






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

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47. Optinum daylight hours for maximum milk yield.






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






49. The oldest breed of dairy cattle.






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