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Dairy Cow Industry

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1. 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.






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






3. Common name for syndactylism.






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






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






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






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






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


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






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






11. The oldest breed of dairy cattle.






12. Most important type trait in a dairy cow.






13. Also known as Bovine genital Campylobacteriosis.






14. Parturient paresis.






15. Also known as acetonemia.






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






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






18. Illawara.






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






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






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






22. Year Babcock Test was developed.






23. Established colleges of agriculture in each state.






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






25. Optinum daylight hours for maximum milk yield.






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






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






28. Recommended method for dairy cattle.






29. MUN is abbreviation for ___________?






30. Another name for carousel type milk barn.






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






32. Also called gas gangrene.






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






34. Also known as traumatic gastritis.






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






36. Also known as Red Nose.






37. Common name for interdigital phlegmon.






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






39. 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.






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






41. Hormone stimulates milk production.






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






43. Caused by a deficiency of Mg in the diet.






44. Caused by Actinomy bovis.






45. Metabolic Disease characterized by accessive ketone body formation.






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






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






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






49. Diarrhea.






50. Agent which destroys worms in digestive tract.