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Dairy Cow Industry

Subject : industries
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1. Common name for syndactylism.






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






3. Caused by the heel fly.






4. Number of dairy cows in the United States.






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






6. Common name for papillomatous digital dermatitis.






7. Parturient paresis.






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






9. An example of a trematode.






10. Agent which destroys worms in digestive tract.






11. Diarrhea.






12. Cause of cattle grubs.






13. Also known as hyperkeratosis.






14. Uses DCADS to minimize incidence of _______?






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






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






17. Unulent fever in people.






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






19. Wingless - flattened insects.






20. Most common limiting nutrient for high milk yield.






21. Hormone stimulates mammary duct development.






22. Also known as Bovine genital Campylobacteriosis.






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






24. Common name for ruminal tymphany.






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






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






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






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






29. Cows are usually rebred at ___ days after breeding






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






31. The dairy breed with the highest fat percentage.






32. Most common treatment for milk fever.






33. Established colleges of agriculture in each state.






34. The oldest breed of dairy cattle.






35. Also known as acetonemia.






36. Year Babcock Test was developed.






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






38. Common name for nematodes.






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






40. Hormone counteracts milk letdown.






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






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






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






44. Common name for infectious bovine keratonconjuctivitis.






45. Common name for interdigital phlegmon.






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






47. Also known as Red Nose.






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






49. Caused by Mycobacterium bovis.






50. 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.