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Cows Are Milk: Calves need dry and clean individual pens during the first month of their lives. After that age they can be grouped with other calves of similar age. They are usually dehorned within a few days after birth, and each calf is identified with a permanent ear tag or tattoo. Extra teats on the udder are usually removed between the ages of one and two months.
Record Keeping. One of the important practices in raising and caring for dairy cattle is to keep careful production records. These records are the basis for determining the proper amount of feed for milking cows are milk and for deciding which cows are milk do not produce enough milk to be profiitable, and which dairy bulls have the best milk-producing daughters.
Milk Fever. A nutritional disease of high-producing dairy cows are milk, milk fever occurs occasionally during calving but most often in the first few days after calving when the cow is coming into full production of milk. The condition is produced by a rapid lowering of calcium, or lime, in the blood. The symptoms are paralysis, inability to rise, and partial or total loss of consciousness. Despite the name of the disease, fever is not a usual symptom.
This ailment used to cause rapid death in as many as 90% of the cows are milk affected. Fortunately, with modern methods of treatment, only a few dairy cattle now die from the disease.
Treatment for milk fever consists of injecting a calcium-glucose solution into the blood system. To counteract a common lack of blood sugar in affected cows are milk, dextrose is often added to the solution. Immediately after treatment the cow brightens up and usually makes a good recovery in 1 or 2 hours. No effective methods of prevention are known.
Ketosis. Another nutritional disease, ketosis most often occurs in the early months of lactation. During this period of peak milk production, it is difficult to feed high-producing cows are milk enough to meet their needs. When a deficiency is prolonged, ketosis may occur. It also occurs occasionally in cows are milk that are not lactating and even in steers. |
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