Dairy Production Flashcards

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Process that destroys harmful bacteria and other tiny organisms

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Pasteurization

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Food has large amounts of nutrients relative to calories

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Nutrient dense

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Process that used to keep the fat and milk liquid from separating

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Homogenization

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Shows problems in producing a large amount of milk

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Alveoli

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Bag like structure that contains the mammary glands and to watch teats are attached

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Udder

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Choosing or picking the animal for the herd

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Selection

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Choosing the cows or heifers to remove from the herd

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Culling

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Milk production can be assessed by the

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Dairy herd improvement (DHI) program

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Refers to the offspring a of animals

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Progeny

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Is an estimate of the traits an animal will transmit to its offsprings

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Predicted transmitting ability

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Genetic evaluation for dairy cattle production used by the USDA.

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Animal model

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Refers to the traits of a cow that are good enough to allow her to complete a useful life in a herd.

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Functional type

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Is the coding of 15 primary traits of dairy cows.

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Linear evaluation

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Which combines several types and production factors into a single figure.

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Type production index (TPI)

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Is one which all feedstuff are mixed together

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Total mixed ration (TMR)

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Are antibodies in the milk that helps the baby calf develops passive immunity.

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Immunoglobulins

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Chemical transformation of energy by the body

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Metabolic disorder

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Metabolic disorder characterized by low blood calcium and paralysis

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Milk fever

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Characterized by a poor appetite and dullness

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Ketosis

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Is inflammation of the mammary gland

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Mastitis

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Is an unheated building kept cold during the winter

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Cold housing

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Refers to building kept warm in the winter

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Warm housing

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Is a concrete platform raised above the parlor floor (pit)

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Milking parlor

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System that allows the cows to harvest their own forage

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Management intensive grazing

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A cow that has stopped producing milk; 305 days for each lactation

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Dry cow