Dairy Cattle Production

Aperçu

Every sachet of fresh milk sold at a roadside stall in Vom or Bokkos, and every tin of milk powder on a Lagos supermarket shelf, traces back to one animal doing one job: a dairy cow converting grass and feed into milk, day after day, for months at a stretch. Dairy cattle production is the deliberate management of cattle for that single purpose, and it looks nothing like keeping cattle for beef or for draught work.

In this lesson you will meet the two breeds that dominate the topic, the high-yielding exotic Friesian and the hardy indigenous White Fulani, and learn why Nigerian dairy farmers usually keep neither one alone but a cross of the two. You will work through the feeding, milking and calving routines that keep a dairy herd productive, the real factors that make one cow's yield far higher than another's, and finish with the kind of milk-yield calculation WAEC sets almost every year.

Objectifs

  1. State the common breeds of dairy cattle
  2. Explain the management practices in dairy cattle production
  3. Explain the factors affecting milk yield in dairy cattle
  4. Distinguish between beef and dairy cattle production
  5. State the economic importance of dairy cattle production

Note de cours

A beef farmer is paid once, when the animal is sold. A dairy farmer is paid every day the cow is in milk. That difference changes everything about how the animal is chosen, fed and handled: a dairy herd is managed around a milking routine that cannot be skipped, and the wrong breed choice or a lapse in feeding shows up almost immediately as fewer litres in the pail.

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  1. Which dairy cattle breed has the highest milk yield but is poorly adapted to tropical heat and disease? A. White Fulani B. Friesian (Holstein-Friesian) C. N'Dama D. Muturu Answer: B
  2. White Fulani cattle are valued in Nigerian dairy production chiefly for their: A. Very high milk yield B. Heat and disease tolerance C. Wool quality D. Draught speed Answer: B
  3. A cow averages 8 litres of milk a day at 500 naira per litre. What is her milk revenue over a 300-day lactation? A. 1,000,000 naira B. 1,200,000 naira C. 1,500,000 naira D. 2,000,000 naira Answer: B
  4. Infection and inflammation of the udder in a dairy cow is called: A. Bloat B. Mastitis C. Foot rot D. Milk fever Answer: B
  5. Dairy cattle production is chiefly managed around: A. Growth rate and carcass quality B. Draught power C. Daily milk yield D. Wool production Answer: C

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WAEC SSCE - Animal Husbandry - 2020

Question 1 Rapport

TEST OF PRACTICAL KNOWLEDGE QUESTION


(a)(i) Name two farm animals from which specimen C (Fresh meat) could be obtained.

(ii) Mention four ways in which specimen C could be preserved.

(b)(i) Mention three farm animals from which the raw form of specimen D (Powdered Milk) could be obtained.

(ii) Mention three products which could be obtained from specimen D.

(c) State two uses of specimen D in animal production 

(d) Name the process used for making the raw form of specimen D fot for human consumption.

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