How is milk production tiggered in farm milking animals?
Question by radical_edward_chick: How is milk production tiggered in farm milking animals?
So I know that animals such as cows & goats can produce milk for farms. How is the milk production triggered? Do the animals have to reproduce first to trigger it, or is there some other way? Are they injected with hormones? If so, then what if the farm is in the third world where hormones are not available?
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The cow is bred,then calves and we begin milking her,she will be dried off before her next cycle and the process starts over.
oldwoodstockhippie
January 20, 2013 at 4:14 am
The animals must give birth to start milk production. Just like a human mother.
You may have heard about dairy cattle receiving hormones. It is called recombinant bovine somatotropin (rBST). This is done to extend the lactation and/or increase production. It increases production to an extra 10 pounds per day. The hormone is given during the middle third of the lactation. It is a protein hormone and does not show up in the milk in abnormal levels (*this hormone is naturally occurring.) No hormone is ever given to start a lactation, there must be a baby.
The Dairy Fairy
January 20, 2013 at 4:23 am
Adding to the dairy fairy’s reply… research oxytocin.
Vita
January 20, 2013 at 5:03 am