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Dairy Cow Industry

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1. Also known as hyperkeratosis.






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






3. Also called gas gangrene.






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






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






6. Used to regularly evaluate where an individual cow stands in body condition relative to the ideals for her stage in lactation.






7. The Ayrshire breed is colored ____ and white.






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






9. Agent which destroys worms in digestive tract.






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






11. 'Barn-itch'.






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






13. Physical conformation of an animal.






14. Unulent fever in people.






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






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






17. Hormone counteracts milk letdown.






18. Hormone Stimulates milk letdown.






19. Caused by Actinomy bovis.






20. Metabolic Disease characterized by accessive ketone body formation.






21. Year Babcock Test was developed.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






33. Common name for papillomatous digital dermatitis.






34. Most common limiting nutrient for high milk yield.






35. Number of dairy cows in the United States.






36. Common name for infectious bovine keratonconjuctivitis.






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


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. Established colleges of agriculture in each state.






40. Most important type trait in a dairy cow.






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






42. Illawara.






43. Optinum daylight hours for maximum milk yield.






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






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






46. An example of a trematode.






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






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






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






50. State with the largest number of dairy cows.