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The most comfortable milking system in the world can not be efficient if your cows are not comfortable. To help you judge cow comfort on your farm, we are using a DeLaval cow comfort approach to guide you in a structured way through your farm.
DeLaval uses three main criteria to judge cow comfort including:
- Animal signs: see, listen and feel the cow and judge whether she is healthy or not. Find more related information in Animal signs.
- Body condition score (BCS): score your cows according to a standardised score method on body fat in relation to lactation stage. Find more related information in Body condition score.
- Locomotion score: score the lameness of your cows according to a standardised scoring method. This will help to identify potential problems before a cow becomes obviously lame. Find more information in Locomotion score.
Checking all three areas gives valuable data on your herd health to help you decide which areas of your dairy operation need to be adjusted or can be improved on. Enhancing cow comfort will improve your bottom line.
Assess cow comfort with DeLaval and you’ll know what piece is missing to increase your cow comfort level.
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