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Dairy Cow Industry

Subject : industries
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1. Common name for ruminal tymphany.






2. Common name for interdigital phlegmon.






3. Normal rectal temperature of a dairy cow.






4. Agent which destroys worms in digestive tract.






5. 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.






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






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






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






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






10. Number of dairy cows in the United States.






11. Parturient paresis.






12. Common name for nematodes.






13. Caused by the heel fly.






14. Metabolic Disease characterized by accessive ketone body formation.






15. Established colleges of agriculture in each state.






16. Physical conformation of an animal.






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






18. Test for determination of BF% in milk.






19. Common name for infectious bovine keratonconjuctivitis.






20. The oldest breed of dairy cattle.






21. Also known as Bovine genital Campylobacteriosis.






22. Also known as Red Nose.






23. An example of a trematode.






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






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






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






27. State with the largest number of dairy cows.






28. Also known as acetonemia.






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






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






31. The dairy breed that is used mostly for milk and veal is _____






32. Parts blood must pass through the udder to produce milk.






33. Caused by Mycobacterium bovis.






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






35. Also called gas gangrene.






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






37. Hormone counteracts milk letdown.






38. Most common limiting nutrient for high milk yield.






39. Optinum daylight hours for maximum milk yield.






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






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






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






43. Wingless - flattened insects.






44. Syndactylism.






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






46. Year Babcock Test was developed.






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






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






49. Molds which develop on feed producing toxins.






50. 'Barn-itch'.