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Dairy Cow Industry

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1. Also known as hyperkeratosis.






2. The Ayrshire breed is colored ____ and white.






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






4. Uses DCADS to minimize incidence of _______?






5. Test for determination of BF% in milk.






6. Number of dairy cows in the United States.






7. Cause of cattle grubs.






8. Common name for nematodes.






9. Common name for interdigital phlegmon.






10. An example of a trematode.






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






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






13. Unulent fever in people.






14. Hormone stimulates mammary duct development.






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






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






17. Hormone Stimulates milk letdown.






18. Molds which develop on feed producing toxins.






19. Another name for carousel type milk barn.






20. 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.






21. Illawara.






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






23. Agent which destroys worms in digestive tract.






24. 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.






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






26. Common name for papillomatous digital dermatitis.






27. Also known as Bovine genital Campylobacteriosis.






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






29. Recommended method for dairy cattle.






30. PTAT






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

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






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






34. Wingless - flattened insects.






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






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






37. Optinum daylight hours for maximum milk yield.






38. Also known as traumatic gastritis.






39. Hormone counteracts milk letdown.






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






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






42. Normal rectal temperature of a dairy cow.






43. Caused by Actinomy bovis.






44. Syndactylism.






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






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






47. Year Babcock Test was developed.






48. Parturient paresis.






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






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