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Dairy Cow Industry

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






2. Agent which destroys worms in digestive tract.






3. Caused by Actinomy bovis.






4. 'Barn-itch'.






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






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






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






8. 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. Number of dairy cows in the United States.






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






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






12. Molds which develop on feed producing toxins.






13. Also known as Bovine genital Campylobacteriosis.






14. Common name for nematodes.






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






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






17. Diarrhea.






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






19. Hormone Stimulates milk letdown.






20. The dairy breed with the highest fat percentage.






21. Metabolic Disease characterized by accessive ketone body formation.






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

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23. Also known as traumatic gastritis.






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






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






26. 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.






27. Cows are usually rebred at ___ days after breeding






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






29. Also called gas gangrene.






30. Common name for ruminal tymphany.






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






32. PTAT






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






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






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






36. Test for determination of BF% in milk.






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






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






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






40. Established colleges of agriculture in each state.






41. Common name for syndactylism.






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






43. Syndactylism.






44. Recommended method for dairy cattle.






45. Common name for interdigital phlegmon.






46. 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.






47. The oldest breed of dairy cattle.






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






49. Hormone counteracts milk letdown.






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