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Dairy Cow Industry

Subject : industries
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1. 'Barn-itch'.






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






3. Also known as traumatic gastritis.






4. Molds which develop on feed producing toxins.






5. Common name for ruminal tymphany.






6. Test for determination of BF% in milk.






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






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






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






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






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






12. Hormone stimulates mammary duct development.






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






14. Syndactylism.






15. Metabolic Disease characterized by accessive ketone body formation.






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






17. Uses DCADS to minimize incidence of _______?






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






19. The oldest breed of dairy cattle.






20. Common name for syndactylism.






21. 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.






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






23. Established colleges of agriculture in each state.






24. CSS stands for.






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






26. State with the largest number of dairy cows.






27. Common name for nematodes.






28. Naturally hornless.






29. Common name for interdigital phlegmon.






30. The dairy breed with the highest fat percentage.






31. Physical conformation of an animal.






32. PTAT






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






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






35. Also known as hyperkeratosis.






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






37. Another name for carousel type milk barn.






38. An example of a trematode.






39. Caused by the heel fly.






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






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






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






43. Also known as Red Nose.






44. Parturient paresis.






45. Optinum daylight hours for maximum milk yield.






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






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






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






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






50. Age conversion formulas applied to milk production of young cows to compare their milk yield with more mature cows.