Dairy Cattle

Judging, identifying, ethical decision making, keeping animals healthy, parasites, behavior, housing, hay quality, milking, food safety and careers are featured.

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Let’s get started! This guide is an important part of the dairy project. Dairy 2 offers you new challenges and opportunities to explore a wide range of activities related to dairy. You’ll also have fun meeting new people, becoming better acquainted with your community and expanding your interests and goals. Like Dairy 1, an achievement program is included to guide your efforts and provide you with an opportunity to be recognized for meeting your goals.

What You’ll Do:

You’ll find activities to help you develop your judging skills, explore animal health and teach others. Here are some of the things you’ll do:

• Judge a class of cows and present reasons
• Demonstrate how to identify a calf
• Discuss ethical situations
• Describe signs of health and illness in dairy animals
• Review the contents of a drug label
• Analyze dairy cattle behavior
• Judge and give reasons on hay quality
• Compare a cow’s and a pig’s digestive systems
• Demonstrate proper milking procedures

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