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Dairy Cow Industry

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1. Caused by Mycobacterium bovis.






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






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






4. 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.






5. Illawara.






6. Recommended method for dairy cattle.






7. Molds which develop on feed producing toxins.






8. Cows are usually rebred at ___ days after breeding






9. MUN is abbreviation for ___________?






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






11. Physical conformation of an animal.






12. Also known as Bacillary hemoglobinuria.






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






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






15. Hormone counteracts milk letdown.






16. Established colleges of agriculture in each state.






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






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

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19. Common name for ruminal tymphany.






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






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






22. Test for determination of BF% in milk.






23. PTAT






24. Hormone Stimulates milk letdown.






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






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






27. 'Barn-itch'.






28. CSS stands for.






29. Also known as Bovine genital Campylobacteriosis.






30. Milking cows are usually milked ____ days and 'dried up' ___ days before the next lactation






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






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






33. Common name for interdigital phlegmon.






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






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






36. Common name for papillomatous digital dermatitis.






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






38. 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.






39. Agent which destroys worms in digestive tract.






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






41. Unulent fever in people.






42. Also called gas gangrene.






43. 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.






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






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






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






47. Common name for infectious bovine keratonconjuctivitis.






48. Parturient paresis.






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






50. Normal rectal temperature of a dairy cow.