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Dairy Cow Industry

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






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






3. Viral disorder that causes lesions indistinguishable from those of foot-and-mouth disease.






4. Syndactylism.






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






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






7. Test for determination of BF% in milk.






8. Illawara.






9. Cows are usually rebred at ___ days after breeding






10. Caused by Mycobacterium bovis.






11. The dairy breed with the highest fat percentage.






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






13. Cause of cattle grubs.






14. Caused by Actinomy bovis.






15. Naturally hornless.






16. CSS stands for.






17. Agent which destroys worms in digestive tract.






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






19. Most important type trait in a dairy cow.






20. Holstein Association uses ______________ as a method of ranking bulls on their overall performance.






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






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






23. Number of dairy cows in the United States.






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






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

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26. Common name for papillomatous digital dermatitis.






27. 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.






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






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






30. 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.






31. Uses DCADS to minimize incidence of _______?






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






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






34. Also known as Red Nose.






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






36. Common name for ruminal tymphany.






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






38. State with the largest number of dairy cows.






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






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






41. Metabolic Disease characterized by accessive ketone body formation.






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






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






44. An example of a trematode.






45. 'Barn-itch'.






46. Optinum daylight hours for maximum milk yield.






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






48. Also known as acetonemia.






49. Hormone stimulates milk production.






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