AGRI 215 Lecture Notes - Dairy Cattle, Free Range, Omega-3 Fatty Acid
7 Dec 2011
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Switched from heavy to light lambs (produces both) Milk lambs (under 5 weeks) never fed solid food (never used to want to produce these - because didn"t feel he was getting enough money for them and he was opposed to the idea) Complete mean lamb to 1/2 meant and 1/2 milk. Why did he switch to milk - because there is now a demand! Demand has to be significant because he build the rotary milker (30,000) wouldn"t have spent the $ if he didn"t think it was worth it. He had an old system which was working (like ruban. Now he has more milk then he had before. Schdual- lambing twice a year (january/april and in sept - for about a month) Daylight length (they are light sensitive, which is why they can"t lamb anytime) can be bred. Uses a sponge to bring them into esterous. Put sponge with hormons in it into uterous so that they.
