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Dairy Cow Industry

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1. 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.






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






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






4. Year Babcock Test was developed.






5. Also called gas gangrene.






6. Also known as hyperkeratosis.






7. Established colleges of agriculture in each state.






8. Recommended method for dairy cattle.






9. Also known as Red Nose.






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






11. Most common treatment for milk fever.






12. Most common limiting nutrient for high milk yield.






13. 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.






14. 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.






15. Uses DCADS to minimize incidence of _______?






16. Cows are usually rebred at ___ days after breeding






17. Number of dairy cows in the United States.






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






19. Caused by Mycobacterium bovis.






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






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






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






23. Common name for syndactylism.






24. Metabolic Disease characterized by accessive ketone body formation.






25. Most important type trait in a dairy cow.






26. Hormone stimulates milk production.






27. Also known as Bacillary hemoglobinuria.






28. Syndactylism.






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






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






31. Naturally hornless.






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






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






34. Optinum daylight hours for maximum milk yield.






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






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






37. Caused by the heel fly.






38. Unulent fever in people.






39. Normal rectal temperature of a dairy cow.






40. 'Barn-itch'.






41. MUN is abbreviation for ___________?






42. Cause of cattle grubs.






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






44. The oldest breed of dairy cattle.






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






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






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






48. Intake protein that is broken down by microorganisms in the rumen.






49. Caused by Actinomy bovis.






50. Hormone Stimulates milk letdown.