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Dairy Cow Industry

Subject : industries
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1. Tendency of two or more traits to vary in the same direction or in opposite directions due to common forces or influences.






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






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






4. Another name for carousel type milk barn.






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






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






7. Also known as Red Nose.






8. Illawara.






9. Naturally hornless.






10. Most common limiting nutrient for high milk yield.






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






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






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






14. The Ayrshire breed is colored ____ and white.






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






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






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






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






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






20. Diarrhea.






21. Physical conformation of an animal.






22. Test for determination of BF% in milk.






23. Also known as Bacillary hemoglobinuria.






24. PTAT






25. Count of ____ cells helps determine inflammation of the mammary gland






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






27. The oldest breed of dairy cattle.






28. An example of a trematode.






29. Wingless - flattened insects.






30. Syndactylism.






31. Recommended method for dairy cattle.






32. MUN is abbreviation for ___________?






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






34. Normal rectal temperature of a dairy cow.






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






36. Metabolic Disease characterized by accessive ketone body formation.






37. Agent which destroys worms in digestive tract.






38. State with the largest number of dairy cows.






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






40. Common name for ruminal tymphany.






41. Unulent fever in people.






42. Caused by Actinomy bovis.






43. Hormone Stimulates milk letdown.






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






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






46. Molds which develop on feed producing toxins.






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






48. Optinum daylight hours for maximum milk yield.






49. Hormone stimulates milk production.






50. Also known as hyperkeratosis.