Livestock

Livestock is the farmed animals raised in an agricultural setting to offer labor and produce supplies such as meat, eggs, milk, fur, leather, and wool.

 

The maintenance, breeding, slaughter, and general suppression of animal husbandry, is a part of modern agriculture and has been practiced in many cultures since humanity's transition to farming from hunter-gatherer lifestyles. Animal husbandry practices have varied widely across cultures and time periods. It continues to perform a major economic and cultural role in numerous societies.

 

Farming of Livestock practices has mostly shifted to intensive animal farming. Intensive animal farming grows the yield of the various commercial outputs, but also negatively impacts animal welfare, public health, and the environment. In particular, beef, dairy, and sheep are outsized sources of greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture.

“Rain Or Shine, Dairy Farmers Care For Their Cows 365 Days Of The Year!”

The Importance of Dairy Farming



Dairy

Advantages of  organic dairy farming

Dairy farming has been part of agriculture for thousands of years. Historically, it has been a part of small, diverse farms. In the last century, so larger farms concentrating on dairy production emerged. Large-scale dairy farming is only viable where either a large amount of milk is required for the production of more durable dairy products such as cheese, butter, etc. Dairy farms were the best way to meet demand.

Dairy farming is not objective of the market, it is also an essential requirement. People require milk and meat of good quality. This ties in with the philosophy of philanthropy for benefit where you have a chance to actually help people out and earn prayers and money. Dairy farming offers several benefits such as:

  1. It is a major source of milk and meat.
  2. It is a Source of Farmyard Manure (FYM).
  3. It is a cash crop
  4. Abundant human resource employment sector.
  5. Ample foreign exchanges earning through exports.
  6. Low-cost living standard.
  7. Stationed, permanently located secured loaning sector.
  8. Full family involvement, dedicated & hardworking sector.

 

Nowadays Dairy Farming is a very hot topic in Pakistan. Most experienced and would-be entrepreneurs have already joined Pakistan’s Dairy Farming trend and even more, are discussing getting into dairy farming.

Before going to start with the basics of livestock farming, let’s dig into some statistics.  Pakistan is mostly an agricultural country with a huge population of livestock. It is an imperative agricultural sub-sector and assumes a pivotal position in Pakistan’s entire economic strategies. This comprises about 38% percent of the agricultural value and offers direct or indirect jobs to nearly 50% percent of the population and 9.4% percent of the gross domestic product (GDP).

 

Essential Equipment for Dairy Farming

1. Milking System



    1.1 Hand milking

        Mostly, milking took place indoors twice a day, in a shed with the cattle tied by the neck with ropes or held in place by stanchions. Feeding could happen simultaneously with milking in the barn, although most dairy cattle were pastured during the day between milking. Such examples of this method of dairy farming are difficult to locate, but some are preserved as a historic sites for a glimpse into the days gone by. One such instance that is open for this is at Point Reyes National Seashore.


    1.2 Vacuum bucket milking

        The first milking machines were an extension of the traditional milking bucket. The early milker device fit on top of a regular milk bucket and sat on the floor under the cow. Following each cow being milked, the bucket would be dumped into a holding tank.


    1.3 Milking pipeline

        The next innovation in automatic milking was the milk pipeline, introduced in the late 20th century. It uses a permanent milk-return pipe and a second vacuum pipe that encircles the shed or milking parlor above the rows of cows, with quick-seal entry ports above each cow.


By eliminating the need for the milk flask, the milking device shrank in size and weight to the point where it could hang under the cow, delayed only by the sucking force of the milker nipples on the cow's udder.


The milk is pulled up into the milk-return pipe by the vacuum system and then flows by gravity to the milk house vacuum-breaker that puts the milk in the storage tank. The pipeline system greatly reduced the physical labor of milking since the farmer no longer needed to carry around huge heavy buckets of milk from each cow.


    1.4 Milking parlors


        Innovation in milking motivated mechanizing the milking parlor to maximize the number of cows per operator which streamlined the milking process to allow cows to be milked as if on an assembly line, and to minimize physical stresses on the farmer by putting the cows on a platform slightly above the person milking the cows to exclude having to constantly bend over. Many older and smaller farms still have tie-stall or stanchion barns, but worldwide a majority of commercial farms have parlors.


    1.5 Automatic milker take-off


        It can be dangerous to an animal for it to be over-milked past the point where the udder has stopped releasing milk. Therefore, the milking process involves not just applying the milker but also monitoring the process to determine when the animal has been milked out and the milker should be removed.

 While parlor operations allowed a farmer to milk many more animals much more quickly, it also increased the number of animals to be monitored simultaneously by the farmer. The automatic take-off system was developed to remove the milker from the cow when the milk flow reaches a priest level, relieving the farmer of the duties of carefully watching over 20 or more animals being milked at the same time.


    1.6 Tractor

        The efficient tractor is one of the critical components of a farm. It is used on farms for multipurpose such as shifting animal food manor tillage purposes and much more.



    1.7 Harvesting Equipment

        If you want to grow any crop on a large scale of land, what you can do is choose the best harvesting equipment in Pakistan and harvest without wasting a lot of time and effort.

    1.8 Tractor Implements

        Tractor implements like tillers, sprayers, loaders, etc., are some of the components you need for effective results in running a farm.