ANS 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Dairy Cattle, Eli Lilly And Company, Estrous Cycle
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The impact of science on dairy production over the past decades, number of dairy cows have declined, production has increased, responsible factors. Increased knowledge of nutrition: specific nutrient requirements that are needed to make milk, cows used to be fed random feedstuffs, now due to tmr can get better nutrition. Technology: monitor the amount of milk a cow is producing, can find how much milk one cow is producing and breed more from her, Now use robotic milking etc: cows can be milk more frequently, robot milks cow when she wants to be milked, about 2. 5 times a day. Farm sizes have increased: shift towards larger farms. I(cid:374) au, there"s a lot of s(cid:373)all far(cid:373)s a(cid:374)d a(cid:448)erage far(cid:373)er (cid:449)ho (cid:373)ilk (cid:272)o(cid:449)s. Not degree: managers and assistant managers with degrees in animal science, changing shift in way we do farm animals.
