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Dairy Cow Industry

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1. Year Babcock Test was developed.






2. Milk is actually secreted in grape-like structures called ____






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






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






5. Syndactylism.






6. Wingless - flattened insects.






7. Cause of cattle grubs.






8. State with the largest number of dairy cows.






9. Test for determination of BF% in milk.






10. 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.






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






12. Also known as Bacillary hemoglobinuria.






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






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






15. Agent which destroys worms in digestive tract.






16. Also known as acetonemia.






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






18. Parts blood must pass through the udder to produce milk.






19. Common name for nematodes.






20. Hormone counteracts milk letdown.






21. Common name for papillomatous digital dermatitis.






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






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






24. Common name for interdigital phlegmon.






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






26. Optinum daylight hours for maximum milk yield.






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






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






29. Also called gas gangrene.






30. Established colleges of agriculture in each state.






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






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






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

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34. Metabolic Disease characterized by accessive ketone body formation.






35. Also known as traumatic gastritis.






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






37. Hormone stimulates milk production.






38. 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.






39. Parturient paresis.






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






41. Caused by the heel fly.






42. Uses DCADS to minimize incidence of _______?






43. Caused by Mycobacterium bovis.






44. The oldest breed of dairy cattle.






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






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






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






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






49. Number of dairy cows in the United States.






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