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Dairy Cow Industry

Subject : industries
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1. Optinum daylight hours for maximum milk yield.






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






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






4. Physical conformation of an animal.






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






6. Molds which develop on feed producing toxins.






7. Another name for carousel type milk barn.






8. Also called gas gangrene.






9. Syndactylism.






10. Stiff Lamb - Nutritional Muscular Dystrophy - Caused by a defficiency of Vitamin E or Selenium in dairy calves.






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






12. Also known as hyperkeratosis.






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






14. The oldest breed of dairy cattle.






15. Agent which destroys worms in digestive tract.






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






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






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






19. Also known as traumatic gastritis.






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






21. Common name for ruminal tymphany.






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






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






24. 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.






25. Year Babcock Test was developed.






26. MUN is abbreviation for ___________?






27. Test for determination of BF% in milk.






28. Normal rectal temperature of a dairy cow.






29. Metabolic Disease characterized by accessive ketone body formation.






30. Cows are usually rebred at ___ days after breeding






31. Established colleges of agriculture in each state.






32. Should only be used as a last resort for the treatment of ruminal tymphany.






33. The dairy breed with the highest fat percentage.






34. 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.






35. Hormone stimulates milk production.






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






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






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






39. Most important type trait in a dairy cow.






40. State with the largest number of dairy cows.






41. Naturally hornless.






42. Hormone Stimulates milk letdown.






43. Common name for nematodes.






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






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






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






47. Common name for syndactylism.






48. Caused by Actinomy bovis.






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






50. CSS stands for.