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Dairy Cow Industry

Subject : industries
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1. The dairy breed with the highest fat percentage.






2. Agent which destroys worms in digestive tract.






3. Common name for interdigital phlegmon.






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






5. Hormone Stimulates milk letdown.






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






7. Also known as Bacillary hemoglobinuria.






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






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






10. Optinum daylight hours for maximum milk yield.






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






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






13. 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.






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






15. PTAT






16. 'Barn-itch'.






17. Molds which develop on feed producing toxins.






18. Also known as Red Nose.






19. The Ayrshire breed is colored ____ and white.






20. Most common treatment for milk fever.






21. Caused by the heel fly.






22. Test for determination of BF% in milk.






23. Metabolic Disease characterized by accessive ketone body formation.






24. State with the largest number of dairy cows.






25. Recommended method for dairy cattle.






26. Cows are usually rebred at ___ days after breeding






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






28. Also called gas gangrene.






29. Number of dairy cows in the United States.






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






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






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






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






34. Normal rectal temperature of a dairy cow.






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






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






37. Parturient paresis.






38. Also known as Bovine genital Campylobacteriosis.






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






40. Physical conformation of an animal.






41. Wingless - flattened insects.






42. Common name for papillomatous digital dermatitis.






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






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






45. Also known as traumatic gastritis.






46. Caused by Mycobacterium bovis.






47. Diarrhea.






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






49. 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.






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