Herd Management And Milking Solutions

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Cattles have contributed at every step of building health of humans. Be that be its survival past in history i.e. our ancestors hunting for their fulfilment of primary needs. From last many years farmers have been raising the livestock for meat, milk and draft animals.
Livestock has been serving us as the source of food security and nutritional quality from since many years. It is raised for the agricultural setting to produce labour and commodities.
Animal Husbandry in modern agriculture has been practiced in many cultures. A transition from hunter gathering to farming has been taking place. Livestock practices have been now shifted to animal farming. This type of farming increases the commercial output. Animal farming provides a variety of food (dairy) products. It provides a source of income. It proves to be a major economic contributor for the rural families.
HERD MANAGEMENT SYSTEM:
The herd is being nourished with the best of all the facilities in the modern agriculture. A system known as herd management system is being followed. According to which, it is ensured that the cattle vaccination takes ...
... place timely. Well timed health check-ups are in line.
There is maintenance of clean and comfortable environment and also giving them the best quality fodder. Real time behaviour is also tracked wherein
a. INCREASE HEAT DETECTION RATE
b. INCREASE CONCEPTION RATE
c. INCREASE PREGNANCY RATE
d. EARLY DETECTION OF HEALTH ISSUES - ALERTS IN REAL-TIME
e. DECREASED CULLING RATES AS A RESULT OF REPRODUCTIVE FAILURE
f. FEED BEHAVIOR MONITORING FOR BETTER MANAGEMENT
cow tracking system
To maintain this management system, it becomes important to keep a track of the cows 24*7. The cow tracking system helps to combine the elements of farming operations into one easy to use network.
It helps in tracking the atmosphere, cystic activity, abortion, lameness, calving, feed monitoring and also most importantly health.
COW MILKING PARLOURS:
All mammals produce milk to nourish their young ones but cows are used throughout the world to produce milk, and milk products for human consumption.
Milk is an important source of energy which contains most of necessary nutrients like calcium, phosphorous, potassium and vitamin D. It’s an excellent source of protein. Dairy products may prevent osteoporosis and bone fractures and even help you maintain a healthy weight.
Cow’s milk has been long been associated with good health, making it one of the most consumed beverages. Cow’s milk is rich in potassium which helps in enhancing vasodilatation and reducing blood pressure issues. Being rich source of calcium and vitamin D, it helps in maintaining teeth and bones healthy. Another benefit of Vitamin d is that it also plays a vital role in cell growth regulation and cancer protection. It supports the production of such hormones which are related to mood, appetite and sleep. Vitamin D being a real help to our body growth and is available richly from Cow Milk.
Cow’s Milk is such that it helps the calves to grow faster, as it is consumed by humans as well, this also applies to us.
COW MILKING MACHINE:
Milking machines are now capable of milking the cows more efficiently and without hurting the udder of the cows provided they should be properly installed. They help in obtaining all the advantages.
Different parts of milking machines are as follows:
• Milking Trolleys
• Milking Buckets
• Pipeline
• Milk Metering
• Pulsators
• Milking Clusters
• Automatic Cluster Removers
• Liners
• Tubes
• Milk Pumps
• Vacuum Pumps
COW MILKING PARLOURS
Dairy Farming is considered to be the part of agriculture which exclusively looks after the long term production of milk which is in turn used for the sale.
The methods used in dairy farming are as follows:
• Hand milking (considered as traditional methods)
• Vacuum bucket milking
• Milking pipeline
• Milking parlours
• Automatic miller takeoff
• Fully automated robotic milking
Milking is one of the most sensitive and important stages in dairy farming. During milking it is very important that cattle’s health is in good condition, avoid stress and optimise milk yield and quality.
Milking Parlours have been introduced as an innovation in dairy farming as it is focussed on the mechanizing the milking process and which will maximize the number of cows, streamlined milking process, and reducing physical stress of farmers.
There are different varieties of milking parlours such as :
• Tandem- These parlours ensure high efficiency and individual animal care. It suitable for small herds and buffalo milking. It has been made of individual boxes and side milking. Full length view of the animals is obtained and is also available with an independent single stall milking process. Animals are at ease and the interaction between the Human and animal is also very safe.

• Topswing- These parlours are considered to be the provide maximum efficiency and comfort with the low investments. It has been proved as a time saving option and also has special herringbone layout with dedicated swing over milking arms that allow the use of milking units alternatively on both the sides .Moreover, the fully suspended heavy-duty milking stalls ensure fast animal positioning and exit, increasing cow-traffic efficiency. They allow quick and continuous milking even if each milking unit serves two milking stalls.

• Herringbone- These are parlours are used for managing milking of large herds. They are with more space, increase milking rates. It ensures faster animal positioning, smooth and regular animal traffic and comfortable milking for both operator and animal.