Intensive Management of Dairy Cattle

3 credits · Undergraduate

Provides students with an understanding of the management and feeding of dairy cattle housed under intensive management conditions. Topics to be covered include the economics and marketing of milk and milk products, the science of feeding dairy cattle to meet their nutrient requirements, principles of ration formulation, management of the transition dairy cow, rearing of replacement heifers, milking systems, management of reproduction, herd health, and manure management and environmental impact of intensive dairy operations.