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Dairy Cow Industry

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1. Caused by the heel fly.






2. 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.






3. Normal rectal temperature of a dairy cow.






4. Recommended method for dairy cattle.






5. Most important type trait in a dairy cow.






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


7. Caused by Mycobacterium bovis.






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






9. Common name for nematodes.






10. Naturally hornless.






11. Parturient paresis.






12. Also known as Bovine genital Campylobacteriosis.






13. Most commonly used test for diagnosis of Leptospirosis in cattle.






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






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






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






17. Established colleges of agriculture in each state.






18. Metabolic Disease characterized by accessive ketone body formation.






19. 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.






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






21. Physical conformation of an animal.






22. Also known as traumatic gastritis.






23. Also known as acetonemia.






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






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






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






27. State with the largest number of dairy cows.






28. Uses DCADS to minimize incidence of _______?






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






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






31. Cause of cattle grubs.






32. The oldest breed of dairy cattle.






33. The Ayrshire breed is colored ____ and white.






34. Caused by Actinomy bovis.






35. The dairy breed with a golden yellow color to its milk.






36. Another name for carousel type milk barn.






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






38. Diarrhea.






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






40. Optinum daylight hours for maximum milk yield.






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






42. Also known as Red Nose.






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






44. Year Babcock Test was developed.






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






46. 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.






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






48. PTAT






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






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