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Dairy Cow Industry

Subject : industries
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1. Physical conformation of an animal.






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






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






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






5. Common name for infectious bovine keratonconjuctivitis.






6. Hormone counteracts milk letdown.






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






8. Naturally hornless.






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






10. An example of a trematode.






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






12. Normal rectal temperature of a dairy cow.






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






14. Hormone stimulates milk production.






15. 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.






16. PTAT






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






18. Diarrhea.






19. Common name for papillomatous digital dermatitis.






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






21. Another name for carousel type milk barn.






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






23. Also known as Bacillary hemoglobinuria.






24. Caused by a deficiency of iodine in the diet.






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






26. 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.






27. Cows are usually rebred at ___ days after breeding






28. Optinum daylight hours for maximum milk yield.






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






30. MUN is abbreviation for ___________?






31. The Ayrshire breed is colored ____ and white.






32. Also known as hyperkeratosis.






33. Caused by the heel fly.






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






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






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






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






38. Hormone stimulates mammary duct development.






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






40. Established colleges of agriculture in each state.






41. Year Babcock Test was developed.






42. Unulent fever in people.






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






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






45. Parturient paresis.






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






47. Most common limiting nutrient for high milk yield.






48. Number of dairy cows in the United States.






49. The dairy breed with the highest fat percentage.






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