793-231 Dairy Management I

791-309 Animal Health and Nutrition; 791-002 Animal Breeding.

The objective of this subject is to provide students with skills and knowledge relating to dairy production and management.

The content includes:

• feeding and nutrition of different classes of stock, condition scoring and production estimation, feed budgeting grazing strategies and disease management;

• calf rearing and replacement heifer rearing, conformation and structural soundness, visual assessment and its importance to a breeding program, the practical application of breeding programs in the dairy industry;

• maintaining and comparing milk harvesting and storage equipment; and

• analysis of dairy shed designs; and dairy farming beyond 2000.

Internal students: two assignments and a 3-hour examination. External students: two assignments.