Alphabet Soup
TMR
What is Total Mixed Ration?
flight zone of a cow
What is 5 feet?
produces golden-colored milk
What is Guernsey?
Stores & cools milk at a cold temperature until transported to a processing plant
calf diarrhea
What is Scours?
SCC
What is Somatic Cell Count?
average gestation length of a cow
What is 280 days?
makes up about 90% of the dairy cow population in the U.S.
What is Holstein?
loosen the soil to prepare seed bed
What is Chisel Plow?
causes inflammation in the lungs
What is Pneumonia?
DHIA
What is Dairy Herd Improvement Assoication?
weight of one gallon of milk
What is 8.6 pounds?
produces milk with the highest fat and protein content
What is Jersey?
stirs the milk in the bulk tank
diarrhea in adult cattle
What is Winter Scours?
The USDA
What is the United States Department of Agriculture?
pounds of milk needed to make 1 gallon of ice cream
What is 15 pounds?
affected by white heifer disease
What is Milking Shorthorn?
used to go in between crop rows to till weeds under the ground
What is Cultivator?
gray, crusty nodules on the skin
What is warts?
NMC
average length of standing heat in a dairy cow
What is 12-16 hours?
has the undesirable recessive trait called weavers
What is Brown Swiss?
the part of the milking system that causes the alternate vacuum pressure between the teat cup shell and liner
What is the pulsator?
a fungal disease that is highly contagious
What is Ringworm?