Milk Production

Milk is consumed by almost everyone, everyday. It is the only resource that is next to water. Milk is one of the sources of nutrients cows have that protect them.  When humans consume the milk, we also consume the rich nutrients along with it. That is why people might say thing such as “milk is good for you.” Well if you heard that before, you heard right. The one and only way to produce rich milk is by getting them from cows. Typically cows spend about 8 hours eating, 8 hours sleeping and 8 hours chewing their cud. They eat about 40-45 kg of feed each day. In order to get really thick and rich milk, the cow they milk is excreted from must be fed and taken care of. Cows are usually provided with a fresh pack of grass in the morning after milking and another fresh pack grass in the evening after milking. They can also be fed grains or hay but they mostly tend to be fed with products that consist soy. Since soy gives off many nutrients and strength. Each cow is usually milked around two times a day. Sometimes this number can be reached to 3 times per day, if the cow is a high producing cow. A usually length of 5 minutes is required for the completion of the milking of one cow.

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Back In the day’s milk is usually milked from the cows by hand and with a dish underneath. Since the technology we have is so advanced, we now use automatic milking machines to milk our cows. Which seem to be more accurate and faster in doing the job. Most dairies or milk factories have enough machines to milk about 20-40 cows at a time. These machines replace the people who used to take time and milk the cows and the young calves. After milk is gathered from the cows, it is then kept in milk storage vats or silos ...

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