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A Bizarre Agricultural Technique Where Farmers Are Drilling Holes In The Stomach Of Cows
Cows aren’t cars, but these cattle look like you could pump gas straight into their sides. A disturbing number of photos and videos online show cows, like these, with holes…
Milk Coolers; A Critical Unit In The Dairy Value Chain
Milk coolers are a critical unit in the dairy value chain. They ensure bulking is done at all levels of production, it eases transportation as milk tankers find reasonable volumes…
Critical things you need to do in the first 24 hours after a calf is born
A calf is tomorrow’s cow. From the health point of view, the life of a bovine is divided into two parts; the first 24 hours, and the rest. The first…
A Complete Simple Guide On How To Buy A Good Bull Breed At An Auction
The days of buying bulls based purely on their functional appearance are over. Yes, of course, functional efficiency is crucial, but what is equally important is a buyer’s knowledge of…
A Super Dairy Breed That Adopts Well To Arid And Semi-Arid Lands Introduced In Kenya
The Kenya Agricultural Livestock and Research Organisation (Kalro) has introduced a superior breed of cows with the aim of boosting the production of milk in arid and semi-arid lands (Asal)…
Precautions To Help You Unlock Success To Dairy Farming
Investing in dairy farming ought to be done cautiously in order to optimise efficiency of available farm resources, or, simply put, to help you do more with less. Taking precaution…
How You Can Make That Small Dairy Farm A Model Farm
Initially, most dairy farms only focused on maintaining healthy cows by proper feeding and disease-control, routine milking and getting calves for future generation. However, this is changing as nowadays, building…
The Business of Dairy Farming – A Case for the Modern Dairy Farmer
Most people are aware that dairy farming in Kenya bears little resemblance to yesteryears. As with other forms of livestock farming, such as poultry farming, beef production and crop farming…
Causes and detection of abortion in cows
Cows can suffer abnormalities during pregnancy leading to death of the foetus or resulting from foetal or maternal abnormality. Abortion in dairy cattle is the loss of a foetus between…
Milking a fortune from dairy self-help group – Success story of Kuresoi Dairy Farmers
When 70 dairy farmers formed a self-help group in 2014 little did they know that a few years down the line they would be running a thriving agribusiness. The farmers…