AVS 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Brown Swiss, Marketing Orders And Agreements, Oviduct

• School: URI
• Department: Animal and Veterinary Science
• Course: AVS 101
• Professor: Anthony Mallilo

Document Summary

Any deviation will result in a dead chick: chicken = 21 days, turkey = 28 days. Applied animal science: what you have learned, applied to production. Dairy industry: in trouble, heavily subsidized, family operation to corporate owned, 150 cows to 3000 cows, 2x/day milking to around-the-clock milking, respected product to nature"s most perfect food . Factors influencing dairying: market proximity, feed cost the most, labor long hours; short supply, climate heating/cooling animals, federal marketing order fixes price of milk. Holstein: female 1600 lbs, male 2500 lbs, color : black & white, origin : holland, milk volume : most milk 21,000, milk fat : least fat 3. 3-3. 5% Jersey: female 1000 lbs, male 1500 lbs, color : deer, origin : isle of jersey, milk volume : 11,000, milk fat : 5% Brown swiss: female 1400 lbs, male 2000 lbs, color : brown, origin : switzerland, milk volume : 13,500, milk fat : 4%