Dairy

Milk fever is a common disease that occurs in dairy cattle, usually close to parturition. Milk fever causes the animal to not have the strength to stand and if not treated as soon as the disease is noticed, it will result in unconsciousness and death. Although milk fever is commonly known, many people don’t understand the different forms, causes, and stages of the disease. They might not fully understand how to take preventative action or how to treat an animal with milk fever either. There are…

Shortly after I graduated High School I realized my dream of working with cattle and following in my father’s footsteps. What I didn’t realize is how much a dairy farmer needs to use written word to converse with others. I was eighteen years old and was talking to a loan officer to purchase my first few animals to start me career as a dairy farmer. He asks me, “What is your plan? How will you earn enough money to cover your loans and live comfortably? How will you convince me that you are a…

properly are stirred well for incorporating air and to prevent ice crystals, thus forming smoothly textured semi solid foam which can shaped into different shapes. There are different types of frozen desserts that comes under the term ice cream like Dairy ice cream, Gelato,…

For the household survey we used a structured questionnaire with both closed and open-ended questions on the socio-economic and demographic background of the dairy farm households and on household time allocation. Based on the survey results, the households were further stratified into milk market participant, and non-participant households. We selected 168 households for the direct observation of intra-household…

Have you ever accelerated, pushed yourself, strived to succeed or went beyond the limits? That's what I thought. In my book, Dairy Queen by Catherine Gilbert the main character, D.J Schwenk is a hardworking, admirable, determined, bright, caring girl. She works her butt off to do farm work at home. She's very intelligent, but that doesn't always show. I think if you read Dairy Queen, D.J would make you think about you have to others. D.J is tall, but not too tall, thin but not too thin, pretty…

ANALYSIS OF THE DETERMINANTS OF BRAND SWITCHING OF SELECTED MILK PRODUCTS IN ABIA STATE, NIGERIA Abstract The study analysed the Determinants of brand switching of selected milk products in Abia State, Nigeria. Specifically, determine the most preferred milk brand in Abia State, ascertain the likeliness of switching brand, among others. A multi-stage sampling technique was used for selecting location while a simple random sampling was used for selecting respondents. A structured…

Have you ever wondered the difference between butter and margarine? Well, so have I. The difference is margarine is a butter substitute and non-dairy, while butter is dairy. Butter is usually made from milk or cream, but since margarine is non-dairy it is made from completely different things. Margarine is actually made from vegetable oils. For example, it can be made from corn, cotton beads, soybeans, safflower, and canola. It can also be made from coconut oil and palm oil, which is more…

Does sex semen in cattle lower the percentage of conception? The birth of a female calf in the dairy industry eventually leads to having another cow in the milking rotation. Which helps to increase milk production for years to come. A bull that is born are not as important and sold to a company for them to raise as beef. While in the beef industry heifer, calves are useful to replace cows in the herd but the bull calves are the ones that bring the most income in the end. In the case of…

person will move at least three or four times in their life, now eighteen I have practically moved three times that, to me this is how my life is less ordinary. The journey began before I was even thought of a young couple grew a love for dairy farming. Why dairy farming right? All the blood, sweat and tears standing behind cows bums for two hours just to be rewarded with the lousy Fonterra pay out. At first he was a young piglet in…

Since the dawn of the refrigerator era, dairy products have taken many diverse and interesting forms. No product -from cheese to milk- was colorfully explored quite literally like yogurt in the late 80s, 90s, and early 2000s. In an effort to get parents to buy yogurt that would not be chucked instantly by their kids, big corporations decided to include colorful sprinkles, cookie pieces, and further diversify the flavor base of the usually bland yogurt cup. One product that survived the consumer…