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Dairy Cow Industry

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






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






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






4. Common name for infectious bovine keratonconjuctivitis.






5. Uses DCADS to minimize incidence of _______?






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






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






8. Common name for papillomatous digital dermatitis.






9. Common name for ruminal tymphany.






10. Established colleges of agriculture in each state.






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






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






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






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






15. Physical conformation of an animal.






16. Metabolic Disease characterized by accessive ketone body formation.






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






18. Optinum daylight hours for maximum milk yield.






19. CSS stands for.






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






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






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

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23. Agent which destroys worms in digestive tract.






24. Caused by Actinomy bovis.






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






26. Also known as acetonemia.






27. Diarrhea.






28. The Ayrshire breed is colored ____ and white.






29. State with the largest number of dairy cows.






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






31. PTAT






32. 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.






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






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






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






36. Also known as traumatic gastritis.






37. Also known as Bovine genital Campylobacteriosis.






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






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






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






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






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






43. 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.






44. The oldest breed of dairy cattle.






45. Also known as hyperkeratosis.






46. Cause of cattle grubs.






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






48. Test for determination of BF% in milk.






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






50. Syndactylism.