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Dairy Cow Industry

Subject : industries
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1. Hormone stimulates mammary duct development.






2. Common name for interdigital phlegmon.






3. Optinum daylight hours for maximum milk yield.






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






5. Common name for ruminal tymphany.






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






7. The oldest breed of dairy cattle.






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






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






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






11. Syndactylism.






12. Uses DCADS to minimize incidence of _______?






13. Another name for carousel type milk barn.






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






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






16. Molds which develop on feed producing toxins.






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






18. Unulent fever in people.






19. CSS stands for.






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






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






22. Common name for nematodes.






23. Normal rectal temperature of a dairy cow.






24. Caused by the heel fly.






25. 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.






26. Cows are usually rebred at ___ days after breeding






27. Most important type trait in a dairy cow.






28. MUN is abbreviation for ___________?






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






30. The dairy breed with the highest fat percentage.






31. Common name for infectious bovine keratonconjuctivitis.






32. Test for determination of BF% in milk.






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






34. Agent which destroys worms in digestive tract.






35. The world record/ cow/ year for milk yield (in pounds).






36. PTAT






37. Naturally hornless.






38. Caused by Actinomy bovis.






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






40. Count of ____ cells helps determine inflammation of the mammary gland






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






42. Also known as Bacillary hemoglobinuria.






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






44. Hormone stimulates milk production.






45. Also known as hyperkeratosis.






46. Should only be used as a last resort for the treatment of ruminal tymphany.






47. Metabolic Disease characterized by accessive ketone body formation.






48. State with the largest number of dairy cows.






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






50. Physical conformation of an animal.