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Dairy Cow Industry

Subject : industries
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1. The oldest breed of dairy cattle.






2. An example of a trematode.






3. Cows are usually rebred at ___ days after breeding






4. Number of dairy cows in the United States.






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






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






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






8. 'Barn-itch'.






9. Common name for syndactylism.






10. Year Babcock Test was developed.






11. Naturally hornless.






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






13. Also known as Bacillary hemoglobinuria.






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






15. Test for determination of BF% in milk.






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






17. Cause of cattle grubs.






18. Common name for interdigital phlegmon.






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






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






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






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






23. Most common limiting nutrient for high milk yield.






24. Also called gas gangrene.






25. Another name for carousel type milk barn.






26. Parturient paresis.






27. Also known as acetonemia.






28. Diarrhea.






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






30. Hormone Stimulates milk letdown.






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






32. Caused by Actinomy bovis.






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






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






35. Common name for infectious bovine keratonconjuctivitis.






36. MUN is abbreviation for ___________?






37. Molds which develop on feed producing toxins.






38. Hormone counteracts milk letdown.






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






40. Common name for ruminal tymphany.






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






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






43. Also known as hyperkeratosis.






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






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.






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






47. Also known as Red Nose.






48. Recommended method for dairy cattle.






49. Metabolic Disease characterized by accessive ketone body formation.






50. Also known as traumatic gastritis.