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Are your cows comfortable?

Published: March 5, 2009
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Have you observed your cows' legs and feet lately? Watched them walking? What about their eyes? Have you taken a close look at their production and health records? Cows are talking... showing us in many ways if they are comfortable in the environment and management we provide. Cows can give us signs, by how they look, perform and behave, on whether or not they are at ease. We all agree they deser...
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Ganesh Kumar Dahal
Guybro Chemical
6 de marzo de 2009
An excellent article. Better performance of cattle herd could be achieve with alert observation & rectifying the management practice if any. No extra production cost !!
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Dr Irshad M Khan
9 de marzo de 2009
Cow comfort is indeed an important issue to enhance the productivity, in terms of health and the productivity. Even the improper grouping of cows can affect the cow comfort. This is very good article and as dairy farm management personal i acknowledge the above article. Dr Irchad Khan
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Aerotech Europe BV
Aerotech Europe BV
18 de marzo de 2009
As a specialist in ventilation and cooling systems for dairy cows, and thus contributing in a piece of cow comfort, I fully agree with this article, we need to bring the natural environment of the cow into the building, with the goal to make it even better. Alex Nieuwland Aerotech Europe
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