cows in pasture
A cow is a female bovine and as a mother animal is an important producer of milk. A dairy cow gives between 5 and 60 liters of milk per day in a lactation period, an average of 25 liters of milk per day. A cow is milked an average of 315 days per year. This amounts to an average production of 8000 liters of milk per cow per year. Some cows produce as much as 100,000 liters of milk during their lifetime[1].
Cows are therefore important to the food supply. Dairy farming strives to achieve an ever-increasing production per cow per year. A cow can reach an age of fifteen years and in exceptional cases twenty years. Nowadays, however, the average dairy cow only lives to be five to six years old. When a cow gives less milk or is not optimally fertile, she is taken to the slaughterhouse. She is then replaced by a heifer, a young cow, often with better genetic potential. As part of the effort to make the sector more sustainable, ways are being sought to help cows reach a higher productive age
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