segunda-feira, 11 de novembro de 2013

Personal Summary week 5

The Australian Cows

          The dairy cattle production is commom in a lot of coutries in the world and the Australia is a famous contry in this theme. The dairy herds from Australia can be composed of any breeds like Holstein, Jersey, Aussie Red, Illawara, Brown Swiss, between others, all with the purpose of milk production. The cows in Australia drink a good and clean water, it is important to prevent diseases and loss of milk production. A good food is indispansable when if work cows of high production, and at Austrilia the people have the preocupation in provide the better to their cows, the cows eat a lot of kinds of feed like pasture, hay, silage, grains, forage crops. The another step necessary in this type of production, is the care of the calves, after only 12 to 24 hours calves are weaned off their monther, but are still given milk to drink, and they need of a special milk called colostrum in their first hours of life, the colostrum is the first milk of the cow release and have a lot of beneficial components to calves. Some farms need to buy feed from anothers farms because can´t produce enough food and this can be expensive. Australia is a reference in milk production for their technical in the world.


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