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Can a dairy farm be profitable if you are milking 4 cows and 2 are dry on pasture?
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Yes. Dairy farming will be profitable when you have 60% of the animals in lactation.
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What are some Learned behaviors of cows?
Cows learn where to go for water, when milking time is (for dairy cows), when it's time to switch to a better pasture (for cows that are being rotationally grazed), what feed and grasses are the best to eat, etc.
What jobs are involved in dairy farming?
Milking the cows and cleaning the dairy parlour. Bringing the cows in from grazing for calving, milking, vet assessments/treatments. Mucking out.
What do you call a place where they milk cows?
a milking parlour
Are milking cows used for butchering?
Yes, a significant number of dairy cows are slaughtered for human consumption after their milking days are over.
What is homes for milking cows?
Cows that are milked are referred to as dairy cows. These cows are milked in a barn or a milk house.
Can you give me a sentence using pasture?
On a dairy farm, the cows can be seen grazing in the pasture.
What are the milking processes in the parlor for the dairy cows?
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Is Wisconsin going to ran out of dairy products?
NO, as long as the dairy cows are still milking the would still be dairy products.
How are dairy farms laid out?
Dairy farms can be laid out in almost any pattern as long as the barns or fields which hold the milking cows are connected to the milking parlor somehow.
What cows are good for milking?
The current popular leader is the Holstein. Other dairy cows include Jersey, Ayrshire, Brown Swiss, Canadienne, Guernsey, and Milking Shorthorn.
What are the two breeds of milking cows?
The six dairy breeds in the US are the Milking Shorthorn, Brown Swiss, Holstein, Jersey, Guernsey, and Ayrshire.
What jobs is in a dairy?
There are a lot of different jobs in a dairy: milking, breeding, feeding, nursing calves, treating of hospital cows, assisting cows with calving, maintenance, etc. A small dairy (till about 200 cows) will have one or two people do all the jobs, a dairy that is larger will have more and more specified jobs. At a 1000 cow dairy or larger the milkers will just be milking and the feeders just feeding, etc.
