What is a typical daily schedule of a dairy farm?

Question

I know you milk them twice but what times and what do you do in between milkings? Also where do the cows stay at night? What else do I need to know? Thanks everyone!!!

Answer 1

First off, most bigger farms like mine milk 3 times a day. And at a bigger farm the cows are inside a barn 24/7, this is called a freestall barn, the cows can walk around and lay down in there own stalls, then they go in a milking parlor, get milked, then go back out. My parlor is a double 10, that means their are 10 cows on each side of the parlor. The udder is at arm level so its easy to put on the milker wich automaticly comes off when the milk is gone. The milk goes in to a giant tank, mine is a 6000 gallon tank. We milk at 4 in the morning, at about 12 in the afternoon, and about 8 at night. The milk truck comes once a day. I use a tractor, a skidloader and a feed mixer to feed the cows. It takes me 4 hours and I drive fast. Email me if you have any more questions. Don't listen to these people who don't know what their talking about. A cow is pregnent 9 months out of the year and milked 11 months out of the year. You can milk a cow up untill she is 8 months pregnant. That means she gets a one month break to have her calf, this means she is dry. When she calfs that means she is fresh. In this time she gives a speacial kind of milk from the mother called colostrum, it contains the calfs antibodies. This kind of milk is only for the calf and not for people. Most farms only keep the female calfs, these are called heifers. Most of the bull calfs go to be made into veal (calf meat). Cows are also very friendly and curious. Some can be mean but most arent.

Answer 2

There's a lot of things besides milking. Different places are different. AFter milking any animals that have signs of mastitis and have been separated out are taken to the vet chutes and treated then put in the herd for those cows that are fresh (just calved) or treated - their milk must be kept separate because it cannot be shipped in the bulk tank for human consumption - instead it is used for calves which are bottle fed twice a day. In between milkings is also feeding, cleaning the pens, taking care of calves, breeding, doing maintenance on anything that needs fixed, updating records, doing husbandry chores on the calves. There's also time observing for cows in heat that are ready to breed and observing cows for signs of illness or in need of medical attention. Occasional chores also include setting out mineral and salt blocks, fly control and other chores.

Answer 3

when they get up at the crack of dawn then the farmers would let them out of the barn and would give them their mornning feed then let them out to pasture. After a few hours they bring them in at around noon and milk them then let the back out to pasture. So after they`ve been out for a little longer bring them back in at aroung 5 or 6 milk them then bed them down with their evening feed. and then in the morning start alover again. But if you are still not sure why not go on the internet and look up dairy farming. also you have to give them all checkups once in a while give them water 24/7 and you will have to learn how to see if they are pregnant and if you have a bull you will need to check his sperm after every breeding season and yes you do have to breed if you want your dairy cows to keep giving milk. Hope this helps.

Answer 4

you wake up at about to round up the cows to milk them. after that one would bring the cows to the field. then one would eat breakfast. then they would do different things to keep the farm running. sometimes you'd get hay for the cows sometimes get feeding for the calves. the cows stay in the field that one puts them in. cows usually give birth around winter and when it is pregnant the cows don't produce milk. when the cow gives birth in the spring. it will produce more vitamin rich milk for its calf. as the days between the day it can produce milk and it gets pregnant it will produce less and less milk.