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Dairy Cow Industry

Subject : industries
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1. Year Babcock Test was developed.






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






3. Metabolic Disease characterized by accessive ketone body formation.






4. Common name for nematodes.






5. 'Barn-itch'.






6. Also known as Bovine genital Campylobacteriosis.






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






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






9. Physical conformation of an animal.






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






11. Uses DCADS to minimize incidence of _______?






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






13. Parturient paresis.






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






16. Another name for carousel type milk barn.






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






18. Established colleges of agriculture in each state.






19. CSS stands for.






20. Also known as acetonemia.






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






22. Unulent fever in people.






23. Common name for interdigital phlegmon.






24. Caused by Actinomy bovis.






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






26. The dairy breed with the highest fat percentage.






27. Optinum daylight hours for maximum milk yield.






28. The oldest breed of dairy cattle.






29. Diarrhea.






30. Hormone counteracts milk letdown.






31. Also known as Bacillary hemoglobinuria.






32. Common name for infectious bovine keratonconjuctivitis.






33. Most important type trait in a dairy cow.






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






35. 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.






36. Common name for papillomatous digital dermatitis.






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






38. The Ayrshire breed is colored ____ and white.






39. Molds which develop on feed producing toxins.






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






41. 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.






42. Syndactylism.






43. An example of a trematode.






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






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






46. Wingless - flattened insects.






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






48. Naturally hornless.






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






50. MUN is abbreviation for ___________?