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Dairy Cattle Quality Articles

Dairy cows generally are of the species cattle . Historically, there was little distinction between dairy cow and beef , with an equivalent stock often getting used for both meat and milk production. Today, the bovine industry is more specialized and most dairy cow are bred to supply large volumes of milk.Dairy farming, like many other livestock raring, are often split into intensive and extensive management systems.Intensive systems focus towards maximum production per cow within the herd. This involve formulating their diet to supply ideal nutrition and housing the cows during a confinement system like free stall or tie stall. Free stall style barns involve cattle loosely housed where they will have free access to feed, water, and stalls but are moved to a different a part of the barn to be milked multiple times a day. In a tie stall system, the milking units are delivered to the cows during each milking. Herd sizes vary round the world counting on landholding culture and social organization . The us has an estimated 9 million cows in around 75,000 dairy herds, with a mean herd size of 120 cows. The number of small herds is falling rapidly with the three ,100 herds with over 500 cows producing 51% of U.S. milk in 2007. The uk dairy herd overall has nearly 1.5 million cows, with about 100 head reported on a mean farm. In New Zealand, the typical herd has quite 375 cows, while in Australia, there are approximately 220 cows within the average herd.    

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