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Dairy Cow Industry

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






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






3. The oldest breed of dairy cattle.






4. Syndactylism.






5. Physical conformation of an animal.






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






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






8. Hormone stimulates milk production.






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






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






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






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






13. Naturally hornless.






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






15. Metabolic Disease characterized by accessive ketone body formation.






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






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






18. Also known as Bovine genital Campylobacteriosis.






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






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






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






22. Also known as hyperkeratosis.






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






24. Hormone Stimulates milk letdown.






25. PTAT






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






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






28. Most common limiting nutrient for high milk yield.






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






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






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






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






33. Also called gas gangrene.






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






35. Year Babcock Test was developed.






36. Unulent fever in people.






37. The Ayrshire breed is colored ____ and white.






38. 'Barn-itch'.






39. Cows are usually rebred at ___ days after breeding






40. Also known as traumatic gastritis.






41. Established colleges of agriculture in each state.






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






43. Molds which develop on feed producing toxins.






44. Common name for nematodes.






45. Also known as Bacillary hemoglobinuria.






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






47. 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.






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






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






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