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Dairy Cow Industry

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1. Cows are usually rebred at ___ days after breeding






2. PTAT






3. Metabolic Disease characterized by accessive ketone body formation.






4. The Ayrshire breed is colored ____ and white.






5. Recommended method for dairy cattle.






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






7. 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.






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






9. Illawara.






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






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






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

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13. Most important type trait in a dairy cow.






14. Syndactylism.






15. An example of a trematode.






16. Common name for infectious bovine keratonconjuctivitis.






17. Hormone Stimulates milk letdown.






18. Optinum daylight hours for maximum milk yield.






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






20. Also known as Bovine genital Campylobacteriosis.






21. Number of dairy cows in the United States.






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






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






24. State with the largest number of dairy cows.






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






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






27. 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.






28. The oldest breed of dairy cattle.






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






30. Also called gas gangrene.






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






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






33. Caused by Mycobacterium bovis.






34. The main points of a dairy cow and their perspective points in juding are...






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






36. Physical conformation of an animal.






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






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






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






40. Also known as Bacillary hemoglobinuria.






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






42. Common name for ruminal tymphany.






43. Wingless - flattened insects.






44. Agent which destroys worms in digestive tract.






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






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






47. Year Babcock Test was developed.






48. Common name for syndactylism.






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






50. Another name for carousel type milk barn.