Every Step Counts: How Milking Routine Shapes Milk Quality
Preventing mastitis is one of the most cost-effective strategies for maintaining cow health and ensuring high-quality milk production.
Milk Quality
Milk quality ensures safe and marketable milk by focusing on high standards of hygiene, udder health, and milking procedures.
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Cada Paso Cuenta: Cómo la Rutina de Ordeño Define la Calidad de la Leche
La prevención de la mastitis es una de las estrategias más rentables para mantener la salud de las vacas y garantizar una producción de leche de alta calidad.
The Role of Predictability and Calm Handling in Milk Letdown
Cows are creatures of habit. They thrive on predictable routines, gentle handling, and calm surroundings. A consistent routine in the milking parlor helps cows to relax.
El papel de la previsibilidad y el manejo tranquilo en la bajada de la leche
Las vacas son criaturas de hábitos. Se benefician de rutinas predecibles, de un manejo suave y de ambientes tranquilos.
Crowd gates done right: Best practices for cow comfort and welfare
Proper crowd gate functioning benefits both cows and dairy farm workers. For farm managers, effective staff training, regular crowd gate maintenance, and proper management are essential for ensuring successful crowd gate operation. While crowd gates help keep cows near the parlor entrance, it is crucial to avoid misusing them to promote positive animal welfare.
Uso correcto de puertas arreadoras: Prácticas para la comodidad y el bienestar de las vacas
Tabla de contenido Introducción El funcionamiento adecuado de la puerta arreadora beneficia tanto a las vacas como a los trabajadores de las granjas lecheras.
Top strategies to streamline your milking parlor
Ensuring a comfortable and safe parlor environment for both cows and workers, while efficiently using all available resources—including time—is crucial for the dairy business’ profitability. Milking time on a dairy farm is a balancing act between maintaining cleanliness and calmness while moving quickly enough to finish on time and get the cows back to their pens, where they can eat, drink, rest, and produce milk.
Estrategias para optimizar su sala de ordeño
Es crucial para la rentabilidad del negocio lechero, garantizar un entorno cómodo y seguro en la sala de ordeño tanto para las vacas como para los trabajadores, al tiempo que todos los recursos disponibles se utilicen de manera eficiente, incluido el tiempo. El ordeño en una granja lechera es un acto de equilibrio entre mantener la limpieza y la calma, mientras se mueve lo suficientemente rápido como para terminar a tiempo y llevar a las vacas de regreso a sus corrales, donde pueden comer, beber, descansar y producir leche.
Prototheca bovis, an emerging threat to dairy producers
Prototheca bovis has been cultured in herds and is emerging as a threat to producers statewide. Prototheca has been linked to mastitis since 1952, however, within the last five years, the prevalence has significantly increased. Similar to Staph aureus and mycoplasma, Prototheca is hard to detect, has no known cure, and is contagious by intermittently shedding from cow to cow.
Impact of Heat Stress in Mammary Gland Development and Health in Dairy Cows
Heat stress occurs when an environment impacts the ability of a cow to get rid of body heat. Cows need to be raised in an environment where temperatures are within their thermoneutral zones to achieve their maximal genetic potential. Failures to establish adequate environmental temperatures can dramatically alter behavior, health, and productivity of cows.
▶️ Watch: Impact of Bedding Choice on Udder Health of Freestall Herds
UW-Extension Milk Quality Veterinarian Pam Ruegg shares in this UW-Extension Dairy Science Webinar series research findings associated with the recently published Impact of Bedding Choice on Udder Health Freestall Herds.
