CARE AND MANAGEMNET OF LACTATING ANIMALS
For better care and management of lactating animals, farmer must keep in view these points given below
- Animal should be tagged for identification and proper recordkeeping
- Proper dairy shed design has to be constructed. Dairy shed should be hygienically clean with proper drainage and clean floor
- For sanitation of the shed, use lime or KMnO4 or phenyl
- Animal should have 24 hours, free access to clean fresh water
- Water troughs should be clean
- Protect the animals from extreme weather conditions especially during summer since animal can perform well if shed temp is 10-20 C°
- Feeding should be avoided 10:00 am during summer
- In summer, appropriate shed cooling system (Cooling fans and showers or mist spray system) must be installed shed have mist spray with fan for cooling cows. In case of buffalo, for bathing animal should have free access to water pond
- Salt should be available all the time in the mangers
- Fix place and time for milking with equal intervals between the two or more milking, being animals are habitual and more sensitive their routine
- Adequate measures must be taking for flies and insects control
- Deworming and vaccination schedule must be followed to have cheapest disease control
- Quarantine measures for newly purchased animals for 7 days before entering into the herd
- Deworm the newly purchased animals for endo and ecto parasites
- Vaccination against FMD and HS should be done before allowing them to enter into shed
- Maintaining good hygiene should be first priority during milking procedure to insure milk quality
- Keeping the diet consistent to optimize microbial production and to achieve the desired milk composition targets, in simple words more rumen microbes equal more milk. Maximizing dry matter (DM) intake provides more nutrients to rumen microbes, which in turn provide more nutrients to the cow for
- Milk production
- Milk composition
- Growth
- Reproduction
- Body condition
Every day, an efficient milking cow needs a dry matter intake equivalent to at least 3% of their body weight. Dasan Feeds provides a variety of dairy feeds for lactating animals, required per their production and lactation stage. Feed them high quality concentrate/ best dairy wanda @ 1kg Dasan feed / Dasan Wanda for every three liters of milk
