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Dairy Cow Industry

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






2. Wingless - flattened insects.






3. Illawara.






4. Test for determination of BF% in milk.






5. Recommended method for dairy cattle.






6. Caused by the heel fly.






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






8. Optinum daylight hours for maximum milk yield.






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






10. 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.






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






12. Also known as Bacillary hemoglobinuria.






13. Also called gas gangrene.






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






15. Also known as Red Nose.






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






17. Unulent fever in people.






18. Caused by Mycobacterium bovis.






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






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






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






22. Hormone counteracts milk letdown.






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






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






25. Caused by Actinomy bovis.






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






27. Agent which destroys worms in digestive tract.






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






29. Another name for carousel type milk barn.






30. The main points of a dairy cow and their perspective points in juding are...






31. Number of dairy cows in the United States.






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






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






34. Most common treatment for milk fever.






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






36. Metabolic Disease characterized by accessive ketone body formation.






37. Year Babcock Test was developed.






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






39. PTAT






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






41. Syndactylism.






42. Common name for syndactylism.






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






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






45. The Ayrshire breed is colored ____ and white.






46. Established colleges of agriculture in each state.






47. Hormone stimulates mammary duct development.






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






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






50. Also known as Bovine genital Campylobacteriosis.