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Dairy Cow Industry

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1. Uses DCADS to minimize incidence of _______?






2. Physical conformation of an animal.






3. 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.






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






5. Test for determination of BF% in milk.






6. Hormone stimulates mammary duct development.






7. Also known as acetonemia.






8. Cows are usually rebred at ___ days after breeding






9. Common name for infectious bovine keratonconjuctivitis.






10. 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.






11. CSS stands for.






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






13. Metabolic Disease characterized by accessive ketone body formation.






14. An example of a trematode.






15. Common name for ruminal tymphany.






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






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






18. Most common treatment for milk fever.






19. Syndactylism.






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






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






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






23. Also known as traumatic gastritis.






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






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






26. Hormone counteracts milk letdown.






27. Another name for carousel type milk barn.






28. Recommended method for dairy cattle.






29. Also known as hyperkeratosis.






30. Established colleges of agriculture in each state.






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






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






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






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






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






36. Hormone Stimulates milk letdown.






37. Optinum daylight hours for maximum milk yield.






38. Most important type trait in a dairy cow.






39. The dairy breed with a golden yellow color to its milk.






40. Parturient paresis.






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






42. MUN is abbreviation for ___________?






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






44. Common name for papillomatous digital dermatitis.






45. Normal rectal temperature of a dairy cow.






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






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






48. The oldest breed of dairy cattle.






49. Diarrhea.






50. Caused by Mycobacterium bovis.