DAIRY PRODUCTION SYSTEMS

Introduction: importance, trends and prospects, limitations and production systems; Establishing a dairy herd; Routine management practices; Management of young and replacement stock; Reproductive management in a dairy herd; Feeding the dairy herd; Milk secretion, milking and milk quality; Dairy cattle health management; Orientation to and practical hands-on of body condition scoring, judging cattle for dairy form, drawing a breeding chart using a universal calendar; making feed budgets for a dairy herd.