Increasing Milk Production by Keeping Dairy Cows Cool
Koolfog misting system and misting fans are used in a California dairy to mitigate heat stress in cows. Feed intakes remain stable while birth complications are reduces.
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@beaelliott
such a typical vegan, You are sterotyping big american farms and thinking all are like it. Geuss what, there not. And how fucking dare you say i don’t care about my cows, My cows generally live for 15 years before they get put down, which isn’t nice, because to me, they are like massive dogs.
friesiancowboy
October 13, 2011 at 10:01 am
@friesiancowboy Your language is about as “wholesome” as your product. Cows are “cared for” as long as they make a profit. After that – It’s the “hamburger factory”. What happens to the baby boy cows by the way… 14 days and some go off to slaughter – The others live in isolated igloos for a few months till they meet the knife too. Heck of a way to show you “care”. Cow’s milk is intended for calves – Human breast milk for humans… All species wean themselves – I’d say “freaks” do not.
beaelliott
October 13, 2011 at 10:36 am
@fakir0005 No, we are saying the same thing in different ways. To put simply, dairies have a maximum capacity for milk production under their specific operating conditions. We provide solutions that help control the environment—and, as a result, milk production increases from status quo. We are not sure why you are hung up on the term “increase.”
koolfoginc
October 13, 2011 at 10:51 am
@koolfoginc Now you’re saying something basically different from what you were saying in the title. You’re not using coolfoginc to increase milk production but to keep it from falling. This is correct. I thought this video was made by coolfoginc. company. You’re not Coolfoginc. company. If you are coolfoginc buy me a small farm with a coolfoginc system. I’d see if it increases milk production. if it does I’d spend all my time talking about increasing milk production by using coolfoginc..
fakir0005
October 13, 2011 at 11:35 am
@fakir0005 This is probably a matter of semantics. Many dairy farms experience reduction in milk production due to heat stress. In this dairy, the Koolfog system was implemented to help alleviate the problem. Once implemented, they experienced an increase in milk production relative to the decline.
koolfoginc
October 13, 2011 at 12:26 pm
@fakir0005 Everybody has a right to their opinion. We rarely take out any comments unless they are clearly derogatory in nature.
koolfoginc
October 13, 2011 at 1:02 pm
@2005Danimal Design is very important to the success of any misting/fogging system. In the video that is shown here the system is configured to operate as needed and is controlled by temperature and humidity. Great care was taken in ensuring that the stalls wouldn’t experience dampness for the reasons stated.
koolfoginc
October 13, 2011 at 1:33 pm
Koolfog could have posted a video using a different title. But they made the video making a false claim that keeping the cows cool increases the milk production. The only claim that can be made is that milk production will go down in hot climates. But in does not mean that the cows will produce more milk if they are kept cool. I risk being barred by Koolfog. But I can;t allow it to make a false claim.
fakir0005
October 13, 2011 at 1:37 pm
@CCmachine What kind of moderation is this. Moderator is allowing stupid comments by Peta people who are milking of cows. The cows forget that they had a calf and calves forget that they had a mother. The cows themselves have never suckled the teats of their mothers and they are comfortable being milked by humans. But these Peta people are torturing themselves by watching cows being milked on videos. They probably visit the farms and harass their owners. .
fakir0005
October 13, 2011 at 2:16 pm
@AusMilkyBarKid yes, but 60% gluten in North American wheat is a recent gmo phenomenon. European countries took heed to 4 Canadian scientists hired by the Canadian Govt. to study the effects of new procedures, including hormones, increased antibiotics etc. link to ecoli and superbugs. EU wheat has 10% gluten. The scientists were touted as heros globally, but fired and dragged through the courts in Canada.
kimhunter2
October 13, 2011 at 2:30 pm
@kimhunter2 that’s ridiculous, no one had heard of Celiac 20 years ago because they didn’t know it existed. Gluten has been in wheat for centuries so it was certainly around. Agriculture has become what it is today because of consumer pressure for cheaper products. Like it or not, it was the consumer that requires milk to be produced this way.
AusMilkyBarKid
October 13, 2011 at 2:51 pm
to maximise production the cows are perpetually maintained in a pregnant state, as soon as calf is born the cow is re-impregnated, mass production of milk is plain cruel for maximum profits and we are all guilty as consumers
takewhole
October 13, 2011 at 3:02 pm
@CCmachine I’m attention whoring? listen, all im saying is for you to say farmers TORTURE there cows is sick and is the furthest thing from the truth
friesiancowboy
October 13, 2011 at 3:14 pm
Oh hold on a sec, I didn’t read all your comments.
Mother/calf separation on a yearly basis is horrific and cannot be justified. Many calves are killed immediately throughout the industry as it’s more efficient to use the meat breed for beef. They’re bred to produce unnatural amounts of milk causing health problems like weak bones. Aggressive milking leaves sores on the udders. Infection (mastitis) can make milking painful, etc.
1.5 years? not much of an existence
CCmachine
October 13, 2011 at 4:10 pm
@friesiancowboy Did you not understand what I said in the other comment? Or do you claim it is a lie, or what? Are you just attention whoring?
CCmachine
October 13, 2011 at 4:13 pm
……. get no money back on those what so ever. You people are horrific, as a farmer in the UK I care for my cows and look after them and for you to say we torture them just makes me sick.
friesiancowboy
October 13, 2011 at 4:55 pm
Absloute bull shit in this comment too. Artifical insemination is used on horses too mind and it dosen’t hurt the animal. Male calves arn’t killed instantly. They are reared up untill they are 1.5 years old and then they will be slaughterd for beef. Also Not a single farmer i know rears heifers for beef, he rears them on to join the herd. Nothing to do, and what more do they have to do in a field? Our cows have 2 brushes (type in cow brushes to see what i mean) which cost £2,000 each and we….
friesiancowboy
October 13, 2011 at 5:04 pm
@CCmachine
Your just anther one of these fucking cocks who want the dairy industry to be baned. But, ever been on a farm? Diden’t think so. Dairy farmers care about there cow, they don’t torture them? In a way, your a sick freak for even suggesting that.
friesiancowboy
October 13, 2011 at 5:43 pm
Modern milk is gross. When industry`s bottom line trumps our well-being, we are all doomed.
Growing up in a time when dairy cows trotted over to the fence for a scratch after grazing and roaming vast lands all day, now that was milk! Oddly enough, I`m now lactose intolerant. And don`t get me started on what big business has done to our wheat. Who heard of Celiac Disease even 20 years ago?
kimhunter2
October 13, 2011 at 6:11 pm
@mendesb76 I don’t care if they’re “kept well” 95% of the time but tortured 5% of the time. 🙁
CCmachine
October 13, 2011 at 7:09 pm
@CCmachine you probably grew up in the city and have no clue about the farm living. You should not drink milk, you should not eat any kind of meat if feel bad for the any animal, especially these cows being treated so well, confortable in the cool and with a lot of food
mendesb76
October 13, 2011 at 8:02 pm
my father is a diry farmer in northeast Brazil, a very hot and humid place, and the production is way bellow than south Brazil , where the climate is cool. We have holland cow mixed with gir, an indian kind of milk dairy cow more resistant to the hot weather. I am sure our problem is relationated with the cow getting overheated
mendesb76
October 13, 2011 at 8:03 pm
@akiakica it’s about cows…. it’s sad 🙁
akiakica
October 13, 2011 at 8:46 pm
@akiakica what was that? i did not dear to see it, in case its scare 😛
AstridSynn
October 13, 2011 at 8:56 pm
@nogerdsurg Make it three. They are artificially inseminated (raped), then the calf is forced apart from the mother within 2 days, never to be seen again, to keep milk production at a peak. You can hear them crying for eachother as they’re separated, especially the mother, for hours. All of them get this yearly. Male calves are killed almost immediately, females are more profitable for beef/veal than males.
Not to mention that the cows have nothing to do, won’t ever see a blade of grass etc.
CCmachine
October 13, 2011 at 9:48 pm