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Dairy Cow Industry
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1. An infertile female calf born co-twin to a bull.
Freemartin
Brown Swiss
60
Prolactin
2. Caused by the heel fly.
Cattle Grubs
Heel Fly
Babcock
Challenge
3. The oldest breed of dairy cattle.
Brown Swiss
Mad Cow Disease
Red
CA - AZ - WA - CO
4. Method of feeding cows aimed at finding their potential to secrete milk and used to prevent metabolic shortage in energy.
1890
DCUS (Dairy Cow Uniform Scorecard)
Oxytocin
Challenge
5. An example of a trematode.
Bloat
Cattle Grubs
Liver Fluke
Brucellosis
6. The mammary system of a cow is divided into ___ independent parts.
Polled
Energy
Hardware Disease
4
7. Cows are usually rebred at ___ days after breeding
Cryptosporidiosis
60
Foot Rot
Tuberculosis
8. Cause of cattle grubs.
Ketosis
Barrel Heart Girth
Udders
Heel Fly
9. Physical conformation of an animal.
Red
Brown Swiss
Type
Prolactin
10. Hormone Stimulates milk letdown.
4
Ketosis
Oxytocin
Brucellosis
11. Adjustment of milk with different fat percentages to equivalent amounts on an energy basis.
Body Conditioning Score
Brucellosis
FCM (Fat Corrected Milk)
Guernsey
12. Naturally hornless.
Polled
Sickle
Foot Rot
Tuberculosis
13. Parts blood must pass through the udder to produce milk.
Sarcoptic - Saroptic
300-500
Ketosis
Guernsey
14. The circumference of the body just back of the shoulders. Used to estimate body weight.
Barrel Heart Girth
Type
Anthrax
Red
15. Common name for infectious bovine keratonconjuctivitis.
101.5
DCUS (Dairy Cow Uniform Scorecard)
Grass Tetany
Pinkeye
16. Milking cows are usually milked ____ days and 'dried up' ___ days before the next lactation
305 - 60
Predicting Transmitting Ability Trait
Udders
Freemartin
17. Most commonly used test for diagnosis of Leptospirosis in cattle.
Microscopic Agglutination Test
60
Pulsator
Liver Fluke
18. The world record/ cow/ year for milk yield (in pounds).
DCUS (Dairy Cow Uniform Scorecard)
67 -914
Udders
Mad Cow Disease
19. Another name for carousel type milk barn.
Mad Cow Disease
Rotary
Udders
Displaced Abomasum
20. Hormone stimulates an increase of up to 20% more milk with only 5% more feed.
Ketosis
BST (Bovine Somatotropin)
Foot Rot
Mule Foot
21. Spores from this fatal disease can live in the soil for more than 60 years.
Milk Fever
Foot Rot
Bovine Viral Disease
Anthrax
22. The Ayrshire breed is colored ____ and white.
Dry
9 -200 -000
Red Water Disease
Red
23. Should only be used as a last resort for the treatment of ruminal tymphany.
Trocar
DHI Records
Estrogen
101.5
24. State producing the most milk (total pounds).
Correlation
California
Microscopic Agglutination Test
Pulsator
25. The dairy breed with the highest fat percentage.
Somatic
Jersey
DCUS (Dairy Cow Uniform Scorecard)
Degraded Intake Protein
26. A zoonotic disorder affecting as many as 90% of dairy farms.
Polled
Mad Cow Disease
Foot Rot
Cryptosporidiosis
27. Test for determination of BF% in milk.
California
Claw
Liver Fluke
Babcock
28. Hormone counteracts milk letdown.
X Disease
Guernsey
Claw
Epinephrine
29. Recommended method for dairy cattle.
Myotoxins
Type
AI
Hardware Disease
30. Number of dairy cows in the United States.
9 -200 -000
Somatic
Land-Grant Act
Jersey
31. Also known as hyperkeratosis.
Oxytocin
Foot Rot
9 -200 -000
X Disease
32. Common name for nematodes.
Cattle Grubs
300-500
Roundworms
Tuberculosis
33. MUN is abbreviation for ___________?
Degraded Intake Protein
Milk Urea Nitrogen
Mange
Liver Fluke
34. PTAT
Estrogen
Heel Fly
Predicting Transmitting Ability Trait
Milk Urea Nitrogen
35. Syndactylism.
Dry
Freemartin
Estrogen
Mule Foot
36. Mechanism that permits alternating vacuum and atmospheric pressure to exit between the teat cup liner and shell.
Pulsator
Udders: 40 % Dairy Character: 20% Frame: 15% Feet and Legs: 15% Body Capacity: 10%
Mad Cow Disease
Oxytocin
37. Most common limiting nutrient for high milk yield.
Energy
Correlation
Pulsator
Lumpy Jaw
38. Also known as acetonemia.
X Disease
Ketosis
67 -914
California
39. Stiff Lamb - Nutritional Muscular Dystrophy - Caused by a defficiency of Vitamin E or Selenium in dairy calves.
Mange
AI
Foot Rot
White Muscle Disease
40. Molds which develop on feed producing toxins.
Challenge
Degraded Intake Protein
Lumpy Jaw
Myotoxins
41. Common name for syndactylism.
Sickle
Rotary
Heel Fly
Mule Foot
42. Parturient paresis.
Milk Fever
Microscopic Agglutination Test
CA - AZ - WA - CO
Lumpy Jaw
43. Uses DCADS to minimize incidence of _______?
Pulsator
Milk Fever
Epinephrine
300-500
44. Agent which destroys worms in digestive tract.
1890
Prolactin
Anthrometics
Shipping Fever
45. 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.
Pinkeye
Tuberculosis
Calcium Glucanate
DHI Records
46. Also called gas gangrene.
Udders: 40 % Dairy Character: 20% Frame: 15% Feet and Legs: 15% Body Capacity: 10%
Degraded Intake Protein
Malignant Edema
Myotoxins
47. State with the largest number of dairy cows.
Energy
Body Conditioning Score
Wisconsin
Hardware Disease
48. Holstein Association uses ______________ as a method of ranking bulls on their overall performance.
Calcium Glucanate
Type Production Index
CA - AZ - WA - CO
Polled
49. Most important type trait in a dairy cow.
Lice
Brucellosis
Udders
Epinephrine
50. A fatal protozoan disease of cattle that destroys the red blood cells - causing anemia and death.
Shipping Fever
Land-Grant Act
Predicting Transmitting Ability Trait
Anaplasmosis