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Dairy Cow Industry
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1. Used to regularly evaluate where an individual cow stands in body condition relative to the ideals for her stage in lactation.
Goiter
Body Conditioning Score
AI
Type Production Index
2. Caused by a deficiency of iodine in the diet.
Goiter
Ketosis
Shipping Fever
Predicting Transmitting Ability Trait
3. Another name for carousel type milk barn.
Liver Fluke
Tuberculosis
Rotary
Oxytocin
4. Rolling herd average for U.S. dairy herd.
Mature Equivalent
Prolactin
2 -180
Polled
5. Should only be used as a last resort for the treatment of ruminal tymphany.
Trocar
Type Production Index
Polled
DHIA ( Dairy Herd Improvement Association)
6. Naturally hornless.
Polled
Claw
X Disease
Certified Semen Services
7. Metabolic Disease characterized by accessive ketone body formation.
Anthrometics
Vibriosis
Ketosis
Barrel Heart Girth
8. Viral disorder that causes lesions indistinguishable from those of foot-and-mouth disease.
Liver Fluke
Vesicular Stromatitis
300-500
Tuberculosis
9. An infertile female calf born co-twin to a bull.
Freemartin
Bovine Viral Disease
4
Milking Shorthorn
10. Stiff Lamb - Nutritional Muscular Dystrophy - Caused by a defficiency of Vitamin E or Selenium in dairy calves.
Degraded Intake Protein
Scours
Pinkeye
White Muscle Disease
11. Common name for ruminal tymphany.
Bloat
Milk Urea Nitrogen
Milk Fever
Guernsey
12. Is the nation with the highest producing dairy cows.
Red
9 -200 -000
Pinkeye
Israel
13. Count of ____ cells helps determine inflammation of the mammary gland
Challenge
Hairy Foot Wart
Prolactin
Somatic
14. _____ and _____ are two reportable external parasites common to dairy and beef cattle.
305 - 60
Sarcoptic - Saroptic
Certified Semen Services
Oxytocin
15. Method of feeding cows aimed at finding their potential to secrete milk and used to prevent metabolic shortage in energy.
Certified Semen Services
Challenge
DCUS (Dairy Cow Uniform Scorecard)
Oxytocin
16. Unulent fever in people.
Brucellosis
Mule Foot
300-500
Mange
17. Four of the leading states in milk production are ___ ___ __ __
CA - AZ - WA - CO
4
Mad Cow Disease
1890
18. Mechanism that permits alternating vacuum and atmospheric pressure to exit between the teat cup liner and shell.
Foot Rot
Pulsator
Grass Tetany
Milking Shorthorn
19. An example of a trematode.
Liver Fluke
Brown Swiss
Brucellosis
Heel Fly
20. Common name for interdigital phlegmon.
Udders: 40 % Dairy Character: 20% Frame: 15% Feet and Legs: 15% Body Capacity: 10%
Foot Rot
Type
Milk Fever
21. Common name for infectious bovine keratonconjuctivitis.
Udders
Claw
Jersey
Pinkeye
22. The oldest breed of dairy cattle.
Anthrometics
Vibriosis
Brown Swiss
Mange
23. Tendency of two or more traits to vary in the same direction or in opposite directions due to common forces or influences.
Correlation
Cattle Grubs
Displaced Abomasum
Brown Swiss
24. The circumference of the body just back of the shoulders. Used to estimate body weight.
Udders: 40 % Dairy Character: 20% Frame: 15% Feet and Legs: 15% Body Capacity: 10%
Mad Cow Disease
Barrel Heart Girth
Bovine Herpes Infectious Virus
25. Also known as Red Nose.
CA - AZ - WA - CO
Mule Foot
White Muscle Disease
Bovine Herpes Infectious Virus
26. The Ayrshire breed is colored ____ and white.
Holstein
16
Microscopic Agglutination Test
Red
27. A zoonotic disorder affecting as many as 90% of dairy farms.
Scours
Cryptosporidiosis
4
Mule Foot
28. Hormone stimulates milk production.
Mule Foot
1890
Prolactin
Mad Cow Disease
29. Hormone stimulates mammary duct development.
Estrogen
Goiter
305 - 60
Epinephrine
30. Hormone counteracts milk letdown.
Mule Foot
Holstein
Bovine Herpes Infectious Virus
Epinephrine
31. CSS stands for.
Red
Freemartin
Certified Semen Services
Israel
32. Most important type trait in a dairy cow.
Lumpy Jaw
Udders
Type
60
33. Hormone stimulates an increase of up to 20% more milk with only 5% more feed.
Goiter
X Disease
BST (Bovine Somatotropin)
Johne's
34. Intake protein that is broken down by microorganisms in the rumen.
Degraded Intake Protein
Cryptosporidiosis
Claw
Sickle
35. Syndactylism.
101.5
Mange
Mule Foot
Certified Semen Services
36. Uses DCADS to minimize incidence of _______?
Milk Fever
Myotoxins
Vesicular Stromatitis
Rotary
37. Adjustment of milk with different fat percentages to equivalent amounts on an energy basis.
FCM (Fat Corrected Milk)
DHIA ( Dairy Herd Improvement Association)
Milk Fever
305 - 60
38. Diarrhea.
Scours
2 -180
Mule Foot
60
39. Casting is used as a temporary treatment of this disorder.
Mature Equivalent
Bovine Herpes Infectious Virus
Displaced Abomasum
Johne's
40. 'Barn-itch'.
Bovine Viral Disease
Mange
Body Conditioning Score
Challenge
41. Milking cows are usually milked ____ days and 'dried up' ___ days before the next lactation
Wisconsin
Correlation
BST (Bovine Somatotropin)
305 - 60
42. MUN is abbreviation for ___________?
Anthrax
101.5
DHIA ( Dairy Herd Improvement Association)
Milk Urea Nitrogen
43. Holstein Association uses ______________ as a method of ranking bulls on their overall performance.
Type Production Index
Liver Fluke
67 -914
BST (Bovine Somatotropin)
44. Spores from this fatal disease can live in the soil for more than 60 years.
Correlation
Liver Fluke
Cryptosporidiosis
Anthrax
45. The mammary system of a cow is divided into ___ independent parts.
California
Lumpy Jaw
4
Claw
46. Also called gas gangrene.
Brucellosis
Sarcoptic - Saroptic
Malignant Edema
Milk Fever
47. 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.
4
Anthrax
16
DHI Records
48. Illawara.
Hairy Foot Wart
Mule Foot
Milking Shorthorn
Johne's
49. Common name for papillomatous digital dermatitis.
Type
16
Hairy Foot Wart
Degraded Intake Protein
50. Most commonly used test for diagnosis of Leptospirosis in cattle.
Type
Jersey
Polled
Microscopic Agglutination Test