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Dairy Cow Industry

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






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






3. Test for determination of BF% in milk.






4. Most important type trait in a dairy cow.






5. Common name for interdigital phlegmon.






6. Cows are usually rebred at ___ days after breeding






7. Also known as acetonemia.






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






9. Number of dairy cows in the United States.






10. Also known as traumatic gastritis.






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






12. 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.






13. Common name for syndactylism.






14. Unulent fever in people.






15. Also known as hyperkeratosis.






16. Normal rectal temperature of a dairy cow.






17. Caused by Actinomy bovis.






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






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






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






21. 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.






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






23. Diarrhea.






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






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






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






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






28. Metabolic Disease characterized by accessive ketone body formation.






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






30. Illawara.






31. Naturally hornless.






32. Another name for carousel type milk barn.






33. Also known as Red Nose.






34. Cause of cattle grubs.






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






36. 'Barn-itch'.






37. Established colleges of agriculture in each state.






38. Common name for infectious bovine keratonconjuctivitis.






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






40. Uses DCADS to minimize incidence of _______?






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






42. Physical conformation of an animal.






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






44. Hormone stimulates milk production.






45. Also known as Bovine genital Campylobacteriosis.






46. Parturient paresis.






47. Caused by the heel fly.






48. Year Babcock Test was developed.






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






50. Also called gas gangrene.