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Dairy Cow Industry

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






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






3. Another name for carousel type milk barn.






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






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






6. Naturally hornless.






7. Metabolic Disease characterized by accessive ketone body formation.






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






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






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






11. Common name for ruminal tymphany.






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






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






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






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






16. Unulent fever in people.






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






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






19. An example of a trematode.






20. Common name for interdigital phlegmon.






21. Common name for infectious bovine keratonconjuctivitis.






22. The oldest breed of dairy cattle.






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






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






25. Also known as Red Nose.






26. The Ayrshire breed is colored ____ and white.






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






28. Hormone stimulates milk production.






29. Hormone stimulates mammary duct development.






30. Hormone counteracts milk letdown.






31. CSS stands for.






32. Most important type trait in a dairy cow.






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






34. Intake protein that is broken down by microorganisms in the rumen.






35. Syndactylism.






36. Uses DCADS to minimize incidence of _______?






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






38. Diarrhea.






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






40. 'Barn-itch'.






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






42. MUN is abbreviation for ___________?






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






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






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






46. Also called gas gangrene.






47. 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.






48. Illawara.






49. Common name for papillomatous digital dermatitis.






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