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<blockquote data-quote="TexasBred" data-source="post: 507502" data-attributes="member: 6897"><p>Dairy cattle live a very stress filled life even though they are fed huge amounts of feed and taken care of well by a good responsible owner. We expect them to give 100 lbs. of milk per day, maintain good health and breed back in these stressful environments. As MilkMaid said, failure to breed back in a timely manner or udder problems cause many to be culled quickly. Those in freestall barns stay on concrete all their life and have feed problems not only related to this but the high moisture environment. Some dairies milk 3 and 4 times per day. Cows really have little time to rest. But, that said, I know of a lot of dairy cattle in grazing operations that milk well into their "teens" simply because they have been able to avoid all of the problems mentioned above. But they are the few lucky ones.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TexasBred, post: 507502, member: 6897"] Dairy cattle live a very stress filled life even though they are fed huge amounts of feed and taken care of well by a good responsible owner. We expect them to give 100 lbs. of milk per day, maintain good health and breed back in these stressful environments. As MilkMaid said, failure to breed back in a timely manner or udder problems cause many to be culled quickly. Those in freestall barns stay on concrete all their life and have feed problems not only related to this but the high moisture environment. Some dairies milk 3 and 4 times per day. Cows really have little time to rest. But, that said, I know of a lot of dairy cattle in grazing operations that milk well into their "teens" simply because they have been able to avoid all of the problems mentioned above. But they are the few lucky ones. [/QUOTE]
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