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The summer months can be pretty daunting for dairy farms. Severe heat and humidity can be dangerous for cows, lowering milk production and threatening their health and ability to carry calves to term. To maintain production levels, its important for farms to maintain a controlled stress free cold environment.
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The summer months can be pretty daunting for dairy farms. Severe heat and humidity can be dangerous for cows, lowering milk production and threatening their health and ability to carry calves to term. To maintain production levels, its important for farms to maintain a controlled stress free cold environment.
#dairy #cows #milk
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00:00The summer months can be pretty daunting for dairy farms.
00:03Severe heat and humidity can be dangerous for cows,
00:06lowering milk production and threatening their health and ability to carry calves to term.
00:11These cows are coming from that part, northern part of Germany, northern part of Holland,
00:16which is very cold. They come here when the temperature and humidity goes up to 50 degrees.
00:24We are paying great attention to what we call cow comfort.
00:28The cow comfort is to take good care of the cows and try to get for her the environment
00:33which is similar to the environment which she was used to in northern part of Europe.
00:39Cows lose appetite when they are under heat stress. Less feed means less production.
00:43That's something no dairy farm in the UAE could afford.
00:47Sure enough, they have pulled out all the stops to
00:49protect their animals from the gruelling weather conditions.
00:52This is very correlated with the fertility of the cow.
00:56And if you inseminate 100 cows during summer, when it is too hot,
01:00none of them will conceive because of the temperature.
01:04So to get good results from in-vitro transfer and artificial insemination,
01:08you have to cool the cows. And that's why we have a cooling system.
01:12We call it coral cool. This reduces the temperature from 50 degrees up to 28 degrees.
01:2050 degrees up to 28 degrees.
01:23Barns across dairy farms in the UAE have been kitted out with overhead coolers,
01:27sprayer's wall and mounted fans. Curtains and shaded walkways protect the bovine
01:32beauties from direct sunlight while overhead showers at feeding barrier remain on throughout
01:37summer. If this were not enough, some farms have rented air-cooled industrial chillers to
01:42help the animals beat the heat. Even the water used by the cows for drinking is cooled to 20
01:47degrees. To maintain production levels, it is important for farms to maintain a controlled
01:52stress, free-cold environment. And dairy farms in the UAE are doing just that.
01:57Irish Eden-Beleza for Gulf News.