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Dairy Cow Industry
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1. Common name for syndactylism.
Predicting Transmitting Ability Trait
Mule Foot
Energy
Grass Tetany
2. _____ and _____ are two reportable external parasites common to dairy and beef cattle.
Liver Fluke
FCM (Fat Corrected Milk)
Sarcoptic - Saroptic
Oxytocin
3. Caused by the heel fly.
9 -200 -000
Epinephrine
Guernsey
Cattle Grubs
4. Number of dairy cows in the United States.
9 -200 -000
Anthrometics
2 -180
Trocar
5. The dairy breed with a golden yellow color to its milk.
White Muscle Disease
Guernsey
Johne's
Red Water Disease
6. Common name for papillomatous digital dermatitis.
Liver Fluke
Hairy Foot Wart
AI
Ketosis
7. Parturient paresis.
Claw
Bovine Herpes Infectious Virus
Bovine Viral Disease
Milk Fever
8. Tendency of two or more traits to vary in the same direction or in opposite directions due to common forces or influences.
Hardware Disease
Correlation
Trocar
Roundworms
9. An example of a trematode.
Goiter
Body Conditioning Score
2 -180
Liver Fluke
10. Agent which destroys worms in digestive tract.
Anthrometics
Babcock
Oxytocin
Bovine Viral Disease
11. Diarrhea.
Milk Fever
Prolactin
Scours
Lice
12. Cause of cattle grubs.
Heel Fly
Liver Fluke
9 -200 -000
Wisconsin
13. Also known as hyperkeratosis.
Ketosis
Guernsey
X Disease
Bloat
14. Uses DCADS to minimize incidence of _______?
Brucellosis
Vesicular Stromatitis
Milk Fever
Holstein
15. State producing the most milk (total pounds).
Goiter
Calcium Glucanate
FCM (Fat Corrected Milk)
California
16. A chamber that connects the four teat cups to the milk line.
Udders: 40 % Dairy Character: 20% Frame: 15% Feet and Legs: 15% Body Capacity: 10%
DHIA ( Dairy Herd Improvement Association)
Claw
Cryptosporidiosis
17. Unulent fever in people.
Freemartin
305 - 60
Holstein
Brucellosis
18. Method of feeding cows aimed at finding their potential to secrete milk and used to prevent metabolic shortage in energy.
Challenge
Johne's
Grass Tetany
Epinephrine
19. Wingless - flattened insects.
Lice
Hardware Disease
Anthrometics
DHIA ( Dairy Herd Improvement Association)
20. Most common limiting nutrient for high milk yield.
Type Production Index
Land-Grant Act
Bovine Viral Disease
Energy
21. Hormone stimulates mammary duct development.
Epinephrine
Estrogen
Holstein
Bloat
22. Also known as Bovine genital Campylobacteriosis.
Vibriosis
Tuberculosis
Jersey
Mule Foot
23. Parts blood must pass through the udder to produce milk.
300-500
Prolactin
Udders
Mad Cow Disease
24. Common name for ruminal tymphany.
Anthrax
Roundworms
Holstein
Bloat
25. Spores from this fatal disease can live in the soil for more than 60 years.
Anthrax
Aveoli
Pulsator
Prolactin
26. Holstein Association uses ______________ as a method of ranking bulls on their overall performance.
16
Type Production Index
9 -200 -000
Sickle
27. Stiff Lamb - Nutritional Muscular Dystrophy - Caused by a defficiency of Vitamin E or Selenium in dairy calves.
Brucellosis
101.5
White Muscle Disease
BST (Bovine Somatotropin)
28. One of the most commonly diagnosed viruses in bovine abortion cases and easily prevented with vaccination and improved sanitation.
Anthrometics
Polled
Bovine Viral Disease
CA - AZ - WA - CO
29. Cows are usually rebred at ___ days after breeding
Bovine Herpes Infectious Virus
60
Ketosis
Oxytocin
30. Disease characterized by pneumonia or septicemia. The highest incidence occurs in animals subjected to stress.
Correlation
60
Bloat
Shipping Fever
31. The dairy breed with the highest fat percentage.
Jersey
Cryptosporidiosis
Correlation
Udders
32. Most common treatment for milk fever.
Myotoxins
Calcium Glucanate
Jersey
Mule Foot
33. Established colleges of agriculture in each state.
Land-Grant Act
Somatic
Grass Tetany
Shipping Fever
34. The oldest breed of dairy cattle.
2 -180
Milking Shorthorn
Brown Swiss
Pulsator
35. Also known as acetonemia.
Udders: 40 % Dairy Character: 20% Frame: 15% Feet and Legs: 15% Body Capacity: 10%
Ketosis
Heel Fly
Certified Semen Services
36. Year Babcock Test was developed.
Pulsator
1890
Microscopic Agglutination Test
Mange
37. Most commonly used test for diagnosis of Leptospirosis in cattle.
Hardware Disease
Microscopic Agglutination Test
Pulsator
Mule Foot
38. Common name for nematodes.
Roundworms
Babcock
Freemartin
9 -200 -000
39. Hormone stimulates an increase of up to 20% more milk with only 5% more feed.
Predicting Transmitting Ability Trait
BST (Bovine Somatotropin)
Jersey
Aveoli
40. Hormone counteracts milk letdown.
Epinephrine
Guernsey
Mature Equivalent
Predicting Transmitting Ability Trait
41. The circumference of the body just back of the shoulders. Used to estimate body weight.
Land-Grant Act
Barrel Heart Girth
Pinkeye
White Muscle Disease
42. Mechanism that permits alternating vacuum and atmospheric pressure to exit between the teat cup liner and shell.
Pulsator
Oxytocin
Brown Swiss
Guernsey
43. Caused by a deficiency of iodine in the diet.
Mange
Goiter
Milk Fever
16
44. Common name for infectious bovine keratonconjuctivitis.
Holstein
Somatic
Pinkeye
Anthrax
45. Common name for interdigital phlegmon.
Goiter
9 -200 -000
Foot Rot
Correlation
46. Casting is used as a temporary treatment of this disorder.
Bovine Viral Disease
Red
Freemartin
Displaced Abomasum
47. Also known as Red Nose.
305 - 60
Claw
Milk Fever
Bovine Herpes Infectious Virus
48. The ____ is used by all dairy cattle breed associations as the standard for judging and classifying cattle
Udders: 40 % Dairy Character: 20% Frame: 15% Feet and Legs: 15% Body Capacity: 10%
BST (Bovine Somatotropin)
Freemartin
DCUS (Dairy Cow Uniform Scorecard)
49. Caused by Mycobacterium bovis.
Scours
Tuberculosis
Hairy Foot Wart
Predicting Transmitting Ability Trait
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.
Sickle
16
305 - 60
101.5