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Dairy Cow Industry
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1. Disease characterized by pneumonia or septicemia. The highest incidence occurs in animals subjected to stress.
Land-Grant Act
Shipping Fever
Foot Rot
Rotary
2. Common name for nematodes.
Oxytocin
Roundworms
Trocar
300-500
3. The dairy breed that is used mostly for milk and veal is _____
Shipping Fever
9 -200 -000
Body Conditioning Score
Holstein
4. State with the largest number of dairy cows.
DCUS (Dairy Cow Uniform Scorecard)
Anaplasmosis
Wisconsin
Cattle Grubs
5. A zoonotic disorder affecting as many as 90% of dairy farms.
16
2 -180
Cryptosporidiosis
Mule Foot
6. The dairy breed with the highest fat percentage.
Pinkeye
Challenge
Jersey
White Muscle Disease
7. Year Babcock Test was developed.
Bovine Herpes Infectious Virus
Vibriosis
Udders
1890
8. Most important type trait in a dairy cow.
Oxytocin
Udders
CA - AZ - WA - CO
Mule Foot
9. Rolling herd average for U.S. dairy herd.
Dry
Scours
Goiter
2 -180
10. CSS stands for.
Certified Semen Services
CA - AZ - WA - CO
Epinephrine
16
11. 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.
Guernsey
Scours
DHI Records
Anthrometics
12. Spores from this fatal disease can live in the soil for more than 60 years.
305 - 60
Anthrax
Vibriosis
Sickle
13. 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.
9 -200 -000
Sickle
Mad Cow Disease
Microscopic Agglutination Test
14. Method of feeding cows aimed at finding their potential to secrete milk and used to prevent metabolic shortage in energy.
Myotoxins
Challenge
Land-Grant Act
Energy
15. Casting is used as a temporary treatment of this disorder.
Goiter
Calcium Glucanate
X Disease
Displaced Abomasum
16. Established colleges of agriculture in each state.
Oxytocin
Anaplasmosis
Ketosis
Land-Grant Act
17. Used to regularly evaluate where an individual cow stands in body condition relative to the ideals for her stage in lactation.
Challenge
Body Conditioning Score
Red
Bloat
18. 'Barn-itch'.
Mange
Oxytocin
Predicting Transmitting Ability Trait
Udders
19. Agent which destroys worms in digestive tract.
Degraded Intake Protein
Anthrometics
Milk Urea Nitrogen
Red
20. Stiff Lamb - Nutritional Muscular Dystrophy - Caused by a defficiency of Vitamin E or Selenium in dairy calves.
Lumpy Jaw
White Muscle Disease
Udders: 40 % Dairy Character: 20% Frame: 15% Feet and Legs: 15% Body Capacity: 10%
Displaced Abomasum
21. Most commonly used test for diagnosis of Leptospirosis in cattle.
Microscopic Agglutination Test
Claw
Type Production Index
Johne's
22. Syndactylism.
Mule Foot
4
FCM (Fat Corrected Milk)
Predicting Transmitting Ability Trait
23. Period of non-lactation between two periods of lactation.
Energy
2 -180
Anthrometics
Dry
24. The main points of a dairy cow and their perspective points in juding are...
Vibriosis
Udders: 40 % Dairy Character: 20% Frame: 15% Feet and Legs: 15% Body Capacity: 10%
Prolactin
Calcium Glucanate
25. Diarrhea.
Anthrax
Johne's
Degraded Intake Protein
Scours
26. Holstein Association uses ______________ as a method of ranking bulls on their overall performance.
Mature Equivalent
AI
Cryptosporidiosis
Type Production Index
27. Also called gas gangrene.
2 -180
Displaced Abomasum
Oxytocin
Malignant Edema
28. The mammary system of a cow is divided into ___ independent parts.
Johne's
Brucellosis
White Muscle Disease
4
29. MUN is abbreviation for ___________?
Mature Equivalent
Milk Urea Nitrogen
Udders: 40 % Dairy Character: 20% Frame: 15% Feet and Legs: 15% Body Capacity: 10%
60
30. The dairy breed with a golden yellow color to its milk.
Red Water Disease
Sickle
Guernsey
Heel Fly
31. Parturient paresis.
Milk Fever
60
Polled
Scours
32. Most common limiting nutrient for high milk yield.
Milk Fever
Energy
Goiter
Israel
33. The common name for Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE).
Mad Cow Disease
Anthrax
Sarcoptic - Saroptic
Energy
34. Intake protein that is broken down by microorganisms in the rumen.
Degraded Intake Protein
White Muscle Disease
Type Production Index
Holstein
35. Common name for papillomatous digital dermatitis.
Jersey
Microscopic Agglutination Test
Hairy Foot Wart
Displaced Abomasum
36. A fatal protozoan disease of cattle that destroys the red blood cells - causing anemia and death.
Johne's
Sickle
Anaplasmosis
Oxytocin
37. Metabolic Disease characterized by accessive ketone body formation.
Ketosis
Myotoxins
Pulsator
Red Water Disease
38. Four of the leading states in milk production are ___ ___ __ __
Babcock
Epinephrine
CA - AZ - WA - CO
Predicting Transmitting Ability Trait
39. Also known as Red Nose.
Bovine Herpes Infectious Virus
Brucellosis
305 - 60
Challenge
40. Cows are usually rebred at ___ days after breeding
60
Lumpy Jaw
Jersey
Liver Fluke
41. Unulent fever in people.
Shipping Fever
Brucellosis
300-500
Mule Foot
42. Common name for infectious bovine keratonconjuctivitis.
Pinkeye
DCUS (Dairy Cow Uniform Scorecard)
Liver Fluke
California
43. State producing the most milk (total pounds).
101.5
California
Challenge
Aveoli
44. Adjustment of milk with different fat percentages to equivalent amounts on an energy basis.
Holstein
Vibriosis
Claw
FCM (Fat Corrected Milk)
45. Also known as acetonemia.
California
Ketosis
Energy
Certified Semen Services
46. Tendency of two or more traits to vary in the same direction or in opposite directions due to common forces or influences.
Degraded Intake Protein
Correlation
Estrogen
Land-Grant Act
47. Caused by the heel fly.
Myotoxins
Mature Equivalent
Cattle Grubs
FCM (Fat Corrected Milk)
48. Number of dairy cows in the United States.
Bloat
Holstein
Cattle Grubs
9 -200 -000
49. Is the nation with the highest producing dairy cows.
Babcock
Wisconsin
FCM (Fat Corrected Milk)
Israel
50. Uses DCADS to minimize incidence of _______?
Udders
Milk Fever
Rotary
X Disease