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Dairy Cow Industry

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






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






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






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






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






6. Syndactylism.






7. One of the most commonly diagnosed viruses in bovine abortion cases and easily prevented with vaccination and improved sanitation.






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






9. Unulent fever in people.






10. Common name for infectious bovine keratonconjuctivitis.






11. Disease causing chronic diarrhea - weight loss resulting from infection with the bacterium Mycobacterium paratuberculosis.

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12. Cause of cattle grubs.






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






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






15. 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.






16. Recommended method for dairy cattle.






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






18. Milking cows are usually milked ____ days and 'dried up' ___ days before the next lactation






19. Naturally hornless.






20. Molds which develop on feed producing toxins.






21. Also known as Bovine genital Campylobacteriosis.






22. Another name for carousel type milk barn.






23. Caused by Mycobacterium bovis.






24. Parturient paresis.






25. 'Barn-itch'.






26. Year Babcock Test was developed.






27. PTAT






28. Common name for papillomatous digital dermatitis.






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






30. Metabolic Disease characterized by accessive ketone body formation.






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






32. Common name for ruminal tymphany.






33. Milk is actually secreted in grape-like structures called ____






34. Caused by a deficiency of Mg in the diet.






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






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






37. The Ayrshire breed is colored ____ and white.






38. MUN is abbreviation for ___________?






39. Also known as Bacillary hemoglobinuria.






40. Most important type trait in a dairy cow.






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






42. Caused by the heel fly.






43. Also known as acetonemia.






44. Agent which destroys worms in digestive tract.






45. Optinum daylight hours for maximum milk yield.






46. Hormone Stimulates milk letdown.






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.






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






49. Also known as hyperkeratosis.






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