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Life-Cycle of Dairy Cattle

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Life-Cycle of Dairy Cattle

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    1. Life-Cycle of Dairy Cattle

    2. Focus What details can you tell me about a dairy cow? How is milk produced? Why do we need milk for our bodies? What other things do dairy cows give us?

    3. A Calf Is Born The calf weighs 90-100 lbs at birth. The calf is immediately fed colostrum, which is the nutrient-rich first milk produced by a cow. At 3 days the calf is fed milk replacer At 4-8 weeks the calf is weaned from milk

    4. Six-Month-Old Heifer The heifer is fed silage, hay, and grain. The heifer weights around 400 lbs. The dairy farmer wants the heifer to gain 1.6 to 1.8 pounds per day.

    5. Yearling Heifer This heifer is called a yearling because she is over a year old. She still has a lot of growing to do before she enters the milking herd.

    6. Two-Year-Old This is what dairy farmers call a first-year heifer. This means that she has just had her first calf. She is producing milk. She weights 1,200 lbs.

    7. Mature Cow The mature cow weighs approximately 1,500 lbs. She has just had her 4th calf. She can eat over 100 lbs a day and produces 12 gallons of milk each milking in early lactation

    8. Life of a Dairy Cow

    9. The Ultimate Recycler She can digest things that we can not or things we have no use for

    10. Consumption of Excess Human Foods The cows of America clean-up after us. They consume cookies that hit the floor in factories

    11. Baked Goods They Consume baked goods that are not of the quality that the public would consume.

    12. Dough They consume left-over pizza dough that would otherwise be sent to landfills.

    13. Leftovers They consume leftovers from our favorite restaurants.

    14. Cleaning-Up Our Environment Dairy cattle work to help keep our environment clean by simply consuming products that might end-up in landfills.

    15. A Typical Dairy Ration Typical Ration: Many of the recycling rations mentioned earlier are gaining popularity.

    16. Traditional Rations The primary components of a ration are corn, green chop, alfalfa, cotton seed, corn, and some dairy producers may add the bread products. Most rations include around five different ingredients.

    17. Dairy Ration Feed Stuffs

    18. Dairy Feed Links Testing Livestock Feeds Purina Mills Using Commodity Feeds In Dairy Rations

    19. Beef Dairy cattle are also a very large source of beef.

    20. Milk They make milk for us to drink to help keep our bodies strong.

    21. Forage Crops Picture of plants Cow manure is a rich fertilizer that can be applied to crops in many forms.

    22. Review What do most dairy cows weigh when they are born? At what age can a dairy cow begin milk production? What can cows do to help our environment? Name some products that cows produce for us?

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