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Dairy Cow Industry
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1. Count of ____ cells helps determine inflammation of the mammary gland
Bloat
Somatic
Calcium Glucanate
Johne's
2. Viral disorder that causes lesions indistinguishable from those of foot-and-mouth disease.
Jersey
Mange
Foot Rot
Vesicular Stromatitis
3. Optinum daylight hours for maximum milk yield.
16
1890
Goiter
Heel Fly
4. Also called gas gangrene.
Israel
Malignant Edema
Brown Swiss
Pulsator
5. Disease characterized by pneumonia or septicemia. The highest incidence occurs in animals subjected to stress.
Udders: 40 % Dairy Character: 20% Frame: 15% Feet and Legs: 15% Body Capacity: 10%
Correlation
Shipping Fever
Grass Tetany
6. Parturient paresis.
DCUS (Dairy Cow Uniform Scorecard)
Mature Equivalent
Milk Fever
Lice
7. The dairy breed that is used mostly for milk and veal is _____
Pulsator
Holstein
Correlation
Mule Foot
8. Also known as Red Nose.
Israel
Bovine Herpes Infectious Virus
Hardware Disease
Mule Foot
9. Common name for nematodes.
300-500
Brown Swiss
Roundworms
Bloat
10. Mechanism that permits alternating vacuum and atmospheric pressure to exit between the teat cup liner and shell.
Pulsator
Scours
Tuberculosis
Shipping Fever
11. Is the nation with the highest producing dairy cows.
X Disease
Calcium Glucanate
Israel
Barrel Heart Girth
12. Illawara.
Freemartin
Liver Fluke
Tuberculosis
Milking Shorthorn
13. An example of a trematode.
Claw
Liver Fluke
Ketosis
White Muscle Disease
14. Also known as acetonemia.
Rotary
Milking Shorthorn
Ketosis
Vibriosis
15. Caused by Actinomy bovis.
Lumpy Jaw
Mule Foot
Hardware Disease
Polled
16. 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.
9 -200 -000
Certified Semen Services
Milking Shorthorn
Sickle
17. Holstein Association uses ______________ as a method of ranking bulls on their overall performance.
Mule Foot
Trocar
60
Type Production Index
18. 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.
Trocar
DHI Records
Guernsey
Foot Rot
19. A zoonotic disorder affecting as many as 90% of dairy farms.
Body Conditioning Score
DCUS (Dairy Cow Uniform Scorecard)
Rotary
Cryptosporidiosis
20. Spores from this fatal disease can live in the soil for more than 60 years.
Polled
Displaced Abomasum
Trocar
Anthrax
21. An infertile female calf born co-twin to a bull.
Bovine Herpes Infectious Virus
Anaplasmosis
Freemartin
Mange
22. Hormone Stimulates milk letdown.
Challenge
Oxytocin
AI
Bovine Herpes Infectious Virus
23. A chamber that connects the four teat cups to the milk line.
Calcium Glucanate
Foot Rot
Tuberculosis
Claw
24. Adjustment of milk with different fat percentages to equivalent amounts on an energy basis.
FCM (Fat Corrected Milk)
Israel
Prolactin
Red
25. Used to regularly evaluate where an individual cow stands in body condition relative to the ideals for her stage in lactation.
Aveoli
Freemartin
Body Conditioning Score
Sickle
26. Most commonly used test for diagnosis of Leptospirosis in cattle.
DCUS (Dairy Cow Uniform Scorecard)
Microscopic Agglutination Test
Mature Equivalent
Milk Fever
27. Number of dairy cows in the United States.
Body Conditioning Score
Claw
9 -200 -000
Cryptosporidiosis
28. Established colleges of agriculture in each state.
Pinkeye
101.5
Ketosis
Land-Grant Act
29. Milk is actually secreted in grape-like structures called ____
X Disease
Foot Rot
Sickle
Aveoli
30. Common name for papillomatous digital dermatitis.
Hairy Foot Wart
Barrel Heart Girth
X Disease
Ketosis
31. Metabolic Disease characterized by accessive ketone body formation.
Correlation
Ketosis
Claw
Milk Fever
32. Most important type trait in a dairy cow.
Udders
Freemartin
Bovine Viral Disease
AI
33. The mammary system of a cow is divided into ___ independent parts.
Sickle
White Muscle Disease
Scours
4
34. The circumference of the body just back of the shoulders. Used to estimate body weight.
Correlation
Hairy Foot Wart
Myotoxins
Barrel Heart Girth
35. Also known as traumatic gastritis.
305 - 60
Trocar
Hardware Disease
Freemartin
36. Tendency of two or more traits to vary in the same direction or in opposite directions due to common forces or influences.
4
Rotary
Correlation
Bovine Herpes Infectious Virus
37. 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.
DHIA ( Dairy Herd Improvement Association)
Prolactin
Mad Cow Disease
Lice
38. Wingless - flattened insects.
Lice
BST (Bovine Somatotropin)
Milk Fever
Bovine Viral Disease
39. 'Barn-itch'.
Mange
Mature Equivalent
Mule Foot
Anaplasmosis
40. Method of feeding cows aimed at finding their potential to secrete milk and used to prevent metabolic shortage in energy.
Hardware Disease
Energy
Challenge
Sarcoptic - Saroptic
41. Common name for ruminal tymphany.
Jersey
Bloat
Anaplasmosis
Body Conditioning Score
42. Caused by the heel fly.
Freemartin
Microscopic Agglutination Test
Cattle Grubs
Bovine Herpes Infectious Virus
43. Recommended method for dairy cattle.
AI
Bovine Herpes Infectious Virus
Calcium Glucanate
Prolactin
44. Age conversion formulas applied to milk production of young cows to compare their milk yield with more mature cows.
Prolactin
Myotoxins
Mature Equivalent
Land-Grant Act
45. Hormone stimulates an increase of up to 20% more milk with only 5% more feed.
Tuberculosis
Udders: 40 % Dairy Character: 20% Frame: 15% Feet and Legs: 15% Body Capacity: 10%
BST (Bovine Somatotropin)
White Muscle Disease
46. _____ and _____ are two reportable external parasites common to dairy and beef cattle.
Dry
FCM (Fat Corrected Milk)
Israel
Sarcoptic - Saroptic
47. Agent which destroys worms in digestive tract.
Shipping Fever
Anthrometics
Ketosis
Degraded Intake Protein
48. Period of non-lactation between two periods of lactation.
Type Production Index
9 -200 -000
Dry
Correlation
49. Most common treatment for milk fever.
Milk Urea Nitrogen
Pinkeye
Calcium Glucanate
Degraded Intake Protein
50. The ____ is used by all dairy cattle breed associations as the standard for judging and classifying cattle
DCUS (Dairy Cow Uniform Scorecard)
60
16
Hardware Disease