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Dairy Cow Industry

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1. Parturient paresis.






2. The common name for Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE).






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






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






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






6. Wingless - flattened insects.






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






8. Most common limiting nutrient for high milk yield.






9. The Ayrshire breed is colored ____ and white.






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






11. Unulent fever in people.






12. Hormone stimulates milk production.






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






14. 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.






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






16. Also known as traumatic gastritis.






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






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






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






20. Also called gas gangrene.






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






22. Common name for papillomatous digital dermatitis.






23. Also known as acetonemia.






24. Also known as Bovine genital Campylobacteriosis.






25. Year Babcock Test was developed.






26. Disease causing chronic diarrhea - weight loss resulting from infection with the bacterium Mycobacterium paratuberculosis.

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27. Another name for carousel type milk barn.






28. Uses DCADS to minimize incidence of _______?






29. 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.






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






31. Molds which develop on feed producing toxins.






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






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






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






35. Also known as hyperkeratosis.






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






37. Common name for syndactylism.






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






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






40. Metabolic Disease characterized by accessive ketone body formation.






41. Hormone stimulates mammary duct development.






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






43. Normal rectal temperature of a dairy cow.






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






45. Most common treatment for milk fever.






46. Agent which destroys worms in digestive tract.






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






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






49. Diarrhea.






50. Illawara.