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Dairy Cow Industry

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






2. CSS stands for.






3. Also known as hyperkeratosis.






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






5. Year Babcock Test was developed.






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






7. Most common treatment for milk fever.






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






9. Syndactylism.






10. Parturient paresis.






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






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






13. Also known as Bacillary hemoglobinuria.






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






15. An example of a trematode.






16. Hormone stimulates mammary duct development.






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

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18. Physical conformation of an animal.






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






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






21. Also known as traumatic gastritis.






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






23. Common name for infectious bovine keratonconjuctivitis.






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






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






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






27. 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.






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






29. Hormone counteracts milk letdown.






30. 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.






31. Unulent fever in people.






32. 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.






33. Number of dairy cows in the United States.






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






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






36. Hormone Stimulates milk letdown.






37. Hormone stimulates milk production.






38. Another name for carousel type milk barn.






39. 'Barn-itch'.






40. Common name for papillomatous digital dermatitis.






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






42. Uses DCADS to minimize incidence of _______?






43. The dairy breed with the highest fat percentage.






44. Optinum daylight hours for maximum milk yield.






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






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






47. State with the largest number of dairy cows.






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






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






50. Most common limiting nutrient for high milk yield.