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Dairy Cow Industry

Subject : industries
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1. Disease characterized by pneumonia or septicemia. The highest incidence occurs in animals subjected to stress.






2. Common name for nematodes.






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






4. State with the largest number of dairy cows.






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






6. The dairy breed with the highest fat percentage.






7. Year Babcock Test was developed.






8. Most important type trait in a dairy cow.






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






10. CSS stands for.






11. 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.






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






13. 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.






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






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






16. Established colleges of agriculture in each state.






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






18. 'Barn-itch'.






19. Agent which destroys worms in digestive tract.






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






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






22. Syndactylism.






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






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






25. Diarrhea.






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






27. Also called gas gangrene.






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






29. MUN is abbreviation for ___________?






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






31. Parturient paresis.






32. Most common limiting nutrient for high milk yield.






33. The common name for Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE).






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






35. Common name for papillomatous digital dermatitis.






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






37. Metabolic Disease characterized by accessive ketone body formation.






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






39. Also known as Red Nose.






40. Cows are usually rebred at ___ days after breeding






41. Unulent fever in people.






42. Common name for infectious bovine keratonconjuctivitis.






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






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






45. Also known as acetonemia.






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






47. Caused by the heel fly.






48. Number of dairy cows in the United States.






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






50. Uses DCADS to minimize incidence of _______?