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Dairy Cow Industry

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






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






3. Optinum daylight hours for maximum milk yield.






4. Also called gas gangrene.






5. Disease characterized by pneumonia or septicemia. The highest incidence occurs in animals subjected to stress.






6. Parturient paresis.






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






8. Also known as Red Nose.






9. Common name for nematodes.






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






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






12. Illawara.






13. An example of a trematode.






14. Also known as acetonemia.






15. Caused by Actinomy bovis.






16. 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.






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






18. 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.






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






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






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






22. Hormone Stimulates milk letdown.






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






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






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






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






27. Number of dairy cows in the United States.






28. Established colleges of agriculture in each state.






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






30. Common name for papillomatous digital dermatitis.






31. Metabolic Disease characterized by accessive ketone body formation.






32. Most important type trait in a dairy cow.






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






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






35. Also known as traumatic gastritis.






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






37. 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.






38. Wingless - flattened insects.






39. 'Barn-itch'.






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






41. Common name for ruminal tymphany.






42. Caused by the heel fly.






43. Recommended method for dairy cattle.






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






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






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






47. Agent which destroys worms in digestive tract.






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






49. Most common treatment for milk fever.






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